I did not know about this kind of insidious pricing. Thank you for highlighting it!
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@georgetakei Where I live this is most definitely illegal. I'm surprised it's allowed anywhere.
@georgetakei I've actually used this in reverse. I'll put something in my cart then ignored it, I'll visit several times over a few weeks, and have found prices will often drop notably. :)
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This is out of the book "Being Digital", that Dr. Nicholas Negroponte ( Former Head of MIT's Media Lab ) wrote several decades ago.
At the airport, he is trying to buy a ticket, when he is told, "Dr. Negroponte, we know you're going to give a paid talk at this seminar. We know how much it's going to pay you. We know what the penalty for missing this talk would be, and what the cancellation would cost you. Now, let's talk about what you are willing to pay to not miss your flight."
@georgetakei @pluralistic warns against this since ages, e.g. https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/#
or in his book on "Enshittification"
@georgetakei #Apple should prevent the #Uber #rideshare app from checking battery level, and other iPhone details!
@georgetakei as far as I understand it’s prohibited in Europe
@georgetakei I've spotted this on flights and holidays, me and my wife have been sat next to each other on different devices getting different prices for the same holiday. We don't use that company because of that.
@georgetakei -Canadian Tire(hardware and auto in canada) has electonic prices on shelves. Instantly changeable without staff based on sales, the whim of the Corporati, or perhaps your phone.
@georgetakei On some sites like amazon if you look for an item and check out the price and keep checking once a week or so the price will slowly drop (to a certain point) until you buy it. I tried it with a refurbished phone; started at $250 and I bought it at $159. AI will lower it to try to entice you and if you don't bite it will eventually raise it again. The price is also different depending on wages in your area.
@georgetakei Using Tor helps evade this while "window shopping". But once you log into you amazon account or what have ya or use the same credit card, you're done. Any track-able data-point really. But you got your quote.
@georgetakei This made me curious, and it turns out that Snopes has a lot to say about the battery charge. (Ha ha.)
Pure evil. At some point I hope a smart CEO will leverage this data about their competitors to expose this behavior and attract customers by not doing these things.
@georgetakei wait until you hear about how door dash drivers get paid.
Unbelievable, it is simply criminal…
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This has been going on for years. Your ZIP (postal) Code will influence the prices you see when browsing online.
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@georgetakei The truly insidious part is that this kind of thing rewards impulse buying and further encourages our societal lack of patience and tolerance for having to wait at all.
The problem is that the politician going viral for this video hasn't done a single thing to stop it. She talks a big game about Democrats needing a BACKBONE 🚩, which is when I immediately knew to research her record. I'm sick of the trash talking do nothing leftists.
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@georgetakei We all need to know:
https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/surveillance-pricing
@georgetakei This has been going on for a while. I search for available flights to plan a trip, then they cost more when I book the flights (on the same day).
@georgetakei I've known for many years that you would be given higher airline ticket prices if you searched from an Apple device.
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