"People still play the claw machines at this place?" a girl coming out of the movie theater laughed.
"These machines are such a rip-off. It's two yuan a try, and it takes more than ten tries to get one. I could just buy one directly for that price," her friend complained.
They noticed that each person in the group was holding a large handful of game coins.
"I bet they'll only get three or four," one of the girls said with a chuckle. She had been burned before, spending dozens of yuan just to get one small plushie.
It was true. Once you fell for the sunk cost fallacy, all you could think about was getting that plushie out.
In reality, it was best to cut your losses, but the vendor's tactics were just that shameless.
Xue Rui sighed, feeding coin after coin into the machine, but he couldn't get a single one out. Most of the time, the claw came up empty.
"Hey kid, you should stop playing," an onlooker advised.
