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I found another site with a "more substantial" list of these strategies and noticed a few "similarities" [0] (e.g. Google " The saliency of the payment (e.g., we feel more pain if we see money leaving our hands)" and look for results.)

It appears crew.co scraped content without citation to market their webdev services.

[0] http://www.nickkolenda.com/psychological-pricing-strategies/

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This is a pretty serious accusation, so I did have a quick look.

I don't see any grounds for your statement that they scraped the content.

In fact, both the OP and your linked article clearly cite the exact same paper that they both took your referenced content from.

  I don't see any grounds for your statement that they scraped 
  the content.

I appreciate you looking over my shoulder and giving your take. I'm using (maybe misusing) "scraping" interchangeably with "plagiarizing."

  In fact, both the OP and your linked article clearly cite the
  exact same paper that they both took your referenced content
  from.

Citing the paper isn't the concerning bit. Did you find the full example phrase I mentioned anywhere else[0] on the Internet (aside from the blog)? From what I could tell, the phrase isn't in the research paper. That and other phrases seems like OC that was lifted without citation.

[0]https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&output=search&s...

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