I journalist “struggling” with BS?
That’s unpossible!
A little bit of digging on the company Viv + Rae that the item is under shows the rest of their stuff to be seemingly above board. Hopefully a pricing anomaly, but the fact that the .99 is added to the price rules out a decimal mistake. Further, in the second screen below (from mobile) it shows a payment plan "As low as $934/mo for 12 mos!" That freaks me out a little bit.