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Old 01-24-2012, 10:16 AM
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Default Re: Behavioral Pricing: A Consumer's worst nightmare

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Originally Posted by rivrrat View Post
****. I've experienced that too with flights. I've had them nearly double in cost in the matter of an hour or two while I searched other options. You really think they were changing the price specifically for us based on our IP address or something? I mean, if we'd used a different computer the price would have been the same as what we originally saw?
Perhaps we should test it.... don't know if it's by cookies or ip address, but it's how the site knows it's you. As I said, I don't want to go all tinfoil-hat, but it fits right in with the information in the article, and I have recently been discussing 'targeted' internet advertisments with some friends on another board. It fits.

I'll let you know, or you let me know next time you're hunting a flight, and we'll give it a try testing the theory.
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