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The flip side is that they can also predict what's the minimum pay an individual driver is willing to take. The airline industry has been doing personalized pr
by sebleon 9y ago
The flip side is that they can also predict what's the minimum pay an individual driver is willing to take.
The airline industry has been doing personalized pricing for years - if you don't believe me, redo a flight search in incognito mode. It's interesting how Uber's other transgressions have place a magnifying class over all their other activity.
- vkou 9y agoI've just done a few Google searches for flights (SEA to SFO, LAX to NYC) while logged into two different google accounts, as well as Incognito mode. All the quotes were the same. I saw the same result on google.ca, and google.co.uk (When adjusted for exchange rates.)
- kirykl 9y agoThe airline personalized pricing is (or used to be) based on 'purchase city' - they may be using a method to identify it that incognito mode doesn't break
- hkmurakami 9y agoThe sector I'm most curious about for this is the rental car industry. Even more opaque than airlines.
- green_rover 9y agoAmazon and other retailers do this too. Uber doesn't appear to be doing anything here that isn't already par for the course.