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by faeriechangling 721 days ago
Nothing really wrong with this. Constantly changing prices means a great deal of busywork and stores constantly have the wrong prices posted the way things are now.

I'm not going to argue for the virtue of updating prices for products by hand out of FUD over surge pricing or the like. If people are really upset about it we can legislate that prices can't be changed more frequently than weekly.
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Retric 721 days ago
Seems reasonable until prices are updated based on who is looking at them or when someone has something to their cart.
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pfannkuchen 721 days ago
It seems like if this were a real danger then it should have already happened on the internet.

I'm aware of broad geo-based price differences, but it seems like you could also tailor the price based on browsing history (via cookie networks, etc). Has this happened?

The increasing cookie restrictions over time could get in the way of this, but I haven't heard of it ever being a problem in the first place.

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