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Just going off memory. Even if they were just varying prices randomly, the resulting data set could (and I would guess would) be used to price dynamically based
by damoncali 16y ago
Just going off memory. Even if they were just varying prices randomly, the resulting data set could (and I would guess would) be used to price dynamically based on personal information. The difference is the possession of personal data, which Amazon already had by the ton.
- btilly 16y agoIn that case I believe your memory is incorrect. Furthermore my strong expectation is that they were using A/B tests to collect data on the optimal price point to show everyone. I don't dispute that eventually they likely would have gotten around to correlating geography and price to be able to dynamically show the right price point, but there is absolutely no reason to doubt their assertion that they hadn't done so, or to believe that they had any near term plans to do so. (For one thing A/B tests to try to figure out that level of detail are very difficult to do.)