“…the average person treats a price ending in .99 as if it were 15 to 20 cents lower.”
The tendency is called left-digit bias, when the leftmost digit of a number disproportionately influences decision-making. In this case, even though the real difference is only a penny, research shows that, to the average person, $4.99 seems 15 to 20 cents cheaper than $5.00 – which results in selling 3 to 5 percent more units than at a price of $5.00"
Why Literally (Almost) Every Price Ends in 99 Cents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing
EDIT: The left-digit bias is not just pennies / cents. It applies when going from $99 to $100…$399 to $400…$999 to $1000 etc.
EDIT 2: If you have a car for sale and you want $10,000 for it are you listing it for $10,000 or $9995?
I’ve found a ton of things he’s claimed in books to have really questionable sources (i.e. he makes claims and positions as truth but doesn’t mention that those things are guesses at best)
Here is the source listed on Wikipedia:
https://books.google.com/books?id=pWS5zrF_Fz0C