The $0.99 prices is the stupidest thing in America, I haven’t seen it in any other country. Also, agreed on including sales tax and rounding to .25. Would actually make using cash tolerable.
What are you trying to accomplish? Hide/anonymize your Internet/torrenting activity? Or access your LAN devices from the Internet? Because those are two different use cases for VPN. One requires paying a third party provider, the other - hosting a VPN server on your network.