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Interestingly, this isn't that different than restaurants offering weekday lunch specials, or happy hour, or other types of deals to draw more traffic during ty
by pcthrowaway 3y ago
Interestingly, this isn't that different than restaurants offering weekday lunch specials, or happy hour, or other types of deals to draw more traffic during typically slow periods.
Although the inverse of increasing prices due to demand does appear to be new.
This might be received much better if it were billed as "ad-hoc deals" with the max price being the regular price, and deals being created by their point-of-sale system to account for unutilized bandwidth, and even inventory (the system can create specials on items which have ingredients that are nearing end of life, or which the restaurant's supplier itself put on special)
Calling it "surge pricing" seems like a way to just piss people off
- mc32 3y agoYeah I think if the prices are predictable it would be less of an issue, but if it’s based on oscillations in demand, then you can’t know in advance if you’re going to pay normal or extra pricing.
- bsder 3y agoExcept what these places don't want to do is tell you the "max price" because then people will compare against that and give them grief. What they want to do is hide the max price so you never know what it is. Personally, I hope these companies keep doing this. Once you get enough pissed off people, you'll get a law banning this crap.