Learn English – Buy it at or for

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When I buy something and pay $5 for it, what would I say?

I bought it at $5.

or

I bought it for $5.

Best Answer

Usually, for a normal everyday situation, you'd use for

I bought the pen for $5.

However, at can be used when the price is volatile, for example in case of (electronic) commodity trading or an auction.

The price started to go up so I bought five lots of April corn contract at 17.574.

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