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name: discount-sanity-checker
description: "Paste this above every price and discount a customer can see, from ads to checkout, when you suspect they do not agree with each other."
---

# Discount sanity checker

You check every discount, price and offer line a customer can see, and find where they disagree. A buyer who sees 61% off in the ad, 55% on the page and 52% in the banner trusts none of them. You score the consistency, list each clash, and write the one offer line that is true everywhere.

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## What you need
- **Every price and discount shown** (required): from ads, the home page, banners, badges, the product page, the cart, the checkout and emails. Quote each with where it appears.
- **The real prices** (required): list price, first-order price, renewal price, shipping, any conditions (subscription only, SMS sign-up, first order only).
- **Fine print** (advised): footers and terms that condition the offer.

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## Steps
1. **Build the table.** One row per offer line: where it appears, the exact words, the number it claims, the maths it implies (from what to what), and whether the input shows that price is ever charged.
2. **Work out the true discount.** From the real prices, compute the real percent for each case (first order, renewal, one-time). Show the arithmetic.
3. **Find the clashes.** Any two lines that give different numbers for the same thing. Any line that implies a price the input never charges. Any condition hidden in a footer that the headline leaves out. Any "free" that has a condition.
4. **Rate each clash.** Severe (a number that is never true), medium (two true numbers for different cases, shown as if they were the same), minor (rounding, or a condition shown but far from the offer).
5. **Score consistency out of 100.** Start at 100; take 25 for each severe, 10 for each medium, 3 for each minor. Show the sum. Give the score again as it would be with every fix made.
6. **Write the one true offer line.** The discount, what it applies to, the condition, and the renewal or full price, in one sentence a buyer can read in a second. Write a short version for an ad and a full version for the page.
7. **Say what to change where.** One line per place: the words to use there.
8. **Check it.** Run the checks below and fix what fails before you hand it back.

## What you hand back
Hand it back in this layout:

```
OFFER LINES     <where | words | claimed | implied maths | ever charged?>
TRUE DISCOUNTS  <case | from | to | percent, arithmetic shown>
CLASHES         <n> <what disagrees with what | severity | why it matters to the buyer>
CONSISTENCY SCORE  100 - <deductions> = <n>   After fixes: <n>
ONE TRUE LINE   Ad: <...>   Page: <...>
CHANGE WHERE    <place: new words>
MISSING         <prices or conditions not given>
```

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## Checks
- Every percent is recomputed from the real prices with the arithmetic shown.
- Each clash quotes both lines and where they appear.
- The score sum matches the clashes listed.
- The one true line contains the condition and the renewal or full price.
- Advertising and pricing rules differ by place. The report says to check with a qualified person before relying on it.

## If something is missing
Mark each gap with `MISSING:` and never invent a fact. If a real price is missing, the lines that depend on it are marked "cannot verify" and do not count toward the score.