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If this is intentional to throw off price scraper bots, why is the price only raised £10 on the final screen of checkout when the card details form is shown, af
by madjam002 4y ago
If this is intentional to throw off price scraper bots, why is the price only raised £10 on the final screen of checkout when the card details form is shown, after entering personal details, creating an account, entering address, going through seat selection, insurance, car rental, etc. Not to mention a CAPTCHA is filled out during checkout anyway, so they know the user is likely to not be a bot.
The price stays at e.g £100 from the point of searching for flights, all the way through checkout until scrolling down to the card details form, at which point it is discretely raised to £110.
- hhmc 4y ago> entering personal details, creating an account, entering address, going through seat selection, insurance, car rental, etc. Not to mention a CAPTCHA is filled out during checkout anyway Perhaps the state of the art in competitor price discovery does actually do all these steps (probably via mechanical turk rather than automated)?
- aendruk 4y agoPlausibly just the final step is what scrapers checked. Or plausibly just the final step misidentified the customer; the captcha did its job on the marketing site but the final price authorization comes from a different system.