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Call your senator. Surveillance pricing should be illegal.

• nja 10mo ago
  If only calling "representatives" still worked nowadays in the age of blatant corporate lobbying... it's really hard not to completely despair, because is there _anything_ we peons can do? (I used to call my senators and house reps about things, but it never got more than a polite "thanks, but I don't care" and now they don't even bother to reply at all)
• Terr_ 10mo ago
  Or, at a bare minimum, occurrences must be disclosed, otherwise they're basically defrauding the customer. Secret pricing also destroys any semblance of efficient markets, so any ardent (but honest) free-marketeers should be against it too.
  • Jblx2 10mo ago
    Aren't coupons the standard age-old price discrimination method?
    • Terr_ 10mo ago
      At least in the scope of living memory, sure, but the key is that the prices are not secret, personalized, or—even worse—both secret and personalized.
      • Jblx2 10mo ago
        How sure are we that "digital" coupons aren't personalized? And even printed coupons in mailers could have been customized. To a personal level, or to a neighbor hood, or zip code level. If Instagram had sent out individualized coupons, would that be better?