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This seems like a great way to think about this. The core reason why these kinds of patters keep popping up is that making people jump through hoops to get disc
by ulber 7y ago
This seems like a great way to think about this. The core reason why these kinds of patters keep popping up is that making people jump through hoops to get discounts is an effective way to price discriminate based on how much people value their time, and how much you value your time is going to have a very strong correlation with how much you're possibly willing to pay.
I think the fixes for this are largely going to be cultural. For example something that could help is everyone having more pride and simply refusing to jump through pointless hoops for a discount (even if it is technically worth their time).
- cwkoss 7y agoWould be interesting to have a web shop with a repeatable "Solve this captcha for an X% chance of decreasing your price by $0.YY", where it doesn't let you go past a price floor and X and Y decreases as price approaches floor. Discount expires in an hour or few. Ideally, you'd use a functional captcha, but even without, it seems it would be as useful to society as most current price discrimination techniques. I'd imagine people would be much more likely to make a purchase if they have already invested 20 minutes solving captchas to save a few bucks.
- maerF0x0 7y agoSome sites have a "spin to get a discount" feature. I would imagine you can just enter new email addresses until you get the max discount.