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> The Mac/PC pricing thing was one travel site, and to my knowledge, this practice is limited to travel booking sites. Amazon prices may often be algorithmicall
by zeteo 9y ago
> The Mac/PC pricing thing was one travel site, and to my knowledge, this practice is limited to travel booking sites. Amazon prices may often be algorithmically adjusted, but not per-user.
Yeah why worry about it if it's only happening on travel booking sites? I mean, these practices would never be taken up by big companies with lots of data to really tailor prices per-user.
- cavanasm 9y agoThere's too much same product price comparison available for online retail to do such things without being noticed. It's not that they couldn't do it and have some level of results, it's that people would quickly become aware of it.
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- problems 9y agoExactly, noticing things like this is just too easy - Friends and I frequently discuss it when comparing prices, usually it turns out to be that one of us found a product from a vendor via the search and one found it via a sale page. You'll get caught all the time if you're doing this.
- DINKDINK 9y agoThe Mac/PC pricing phenomenon is being misrepresented. The price of a specific hotel was completely independent of the OS you booked from. What was dependent on what OS you booked at was the price percentile of the market that was shown to you as a default. If you were a PC customer and thought "Hmm why are all these low rent places being shown to me" and filtered to the 'high rent' places you'd be able to see the same market as a Mac customer who thought "Hmm why are all these high rent places being shown to me" and filtered to the 'low rent' places. Is there a anti-trust issue? no-> there isn't an issue with competition, the author is just angry someone isn't giving a good or service to them for free.