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Reminds me of the old Celeron days 25+ years ago. The premise of paying different amounts for the same hardware always gets us hackers riled up.

• r00fus 3y ago
  Should rile up any rational consumer. Corporation can flex their market power to ensure you pay more for something they can provide for free.
  • lotsofpulp 3y ago
    Where do grocery stores and coupons fit into this? Selling a book/media at a lower price in with a poorer populace? A national park charging difference prices based on the visitor’s nationality (by the passport they have)? Haggling in a market in a stereotypically poor country where different buyers get different prices based on their negotiations? A big company sales representative selling software licenses at difference prices to different clients?
    • r00fus 3y ago
      This is exactly why anti-trust exists - ostensibly to prevent any single entity from having a coercive monopoly in any given market. If one company owns all the grocery outlets in a region, they can do this, so that is frowned on by governments. I can't speak to your other examples, they don't seem to apply directly.
      • lotsofpulp 3y ago
        All of my examples are the same thing - selling the same thing at different prices, technically referred to as price segmentation or price discrimination.