>How can the neighbor get a different deal than one you are looking for in the case of plane tickets? This is literally how dynamic pricing works, and it happe

>How can the neighbor get a different deal than one you are looking for in the case of plane tickets? This is literally how dynamic pricing works, and it happens all the time. >It's not like the airline knows that you are flying for a funeral. Yes, they could. A company armed with the biggest of big data could scrape that information fairly trivially. This is my entire point. The more companies know about us, they more they can use dynamic pricing to extract the highest price we'd probably be willing to pay... personally. >There are business and first class tickets for a reason, as well as prices being more expensive during holidays and summers. These are different products. Dynamic pricing is different pricing for the exact same product depending on the who the customer is... typically their demographics data.