Well, this is cute.
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@chx @energisch_ I confess that I'm baffled by the ardor to find an alternative explanation. The major airlines routinely boast of their surveillance pricing plans and programs. The people who develop, consult on and manage loyalty programs brag that frequent customers don't notice when prices go up. AC has a monopoly on the route.
The same URL in two browsers, one logged in, and one not, produces a 25% premium price for the logged in session.
Occam's razor applies.
@pluralistic @chx @energisch_ Besides whether logged in or not, check browser capabilities: firefox can be configured to delete cookies when you close firefox. Other browsers might not do that. Also, see if you get a different price when using a laptop at a coffee shop, possibly trying different towns. Maybe there is a surcharge if your Internet connection is physically located in a "high rent district".
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic I always go through a 3rd party search site like google or skyscanner. That's where they have to provide their lowest rates to stay competitive.
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@energisch_
I have a streaming contact with TSN in Canada. Every year, i cancel it in November. No refunds. Then, for black Friday, they offer a deal to new customers only. I qualify as a new customer even with the same email address and account already on file. It's usually a 40 % discount.
@hub @Ehay2k @pluralistic@human3500 Isn't it funny?
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic Everybody knows that seats cost airlines more to service when you use Chromium. It makes them heavier, require more fuel to get off the ground.
Airlines are efficient private companies operating in a vibrant and competitive free market environment. I trust they only mark up prices to cover their costs.
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Yet another level of #enshittification :
Provide customer loyalty benefits to help secure your very best customers, then turn the tables and screw them for that very same loyalty.
@Ehay2k looking at the Air Canada Aeroplan Chase credit card perks proverbially flying away right now... I hate it.
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic Sounds about right. bunch of crooks!
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
@pluralistic WHAT
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
Well, "loyalty" programmes do not exist because companies are nice...
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Well, this is cute. I looked up an #AirCanada flight in Firefox and then pasted the URL into a Chromium window where I was logged into my Aeroplan Super-Elite account. Air Canada added $300 to the flight price when I tried to load it from a logged-in browser. Hell of a customer loyalty perk!
I bought the ticket in my non-logged-in window, then added my FF number to it.
#capitalism, fuck yeah!
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Surveillance pricing in stores is just capitalism doing in person what it has been doing online for years.@TheGreatLlama @pluralistic Big companies that own brick-and-mortar stores have wanted to do surveillance pricing or algorithmically driven pricing for decades, since before there was a formal term for it. I first read about the concept in the early 2000s but IIRC it’s older than that.
They just didn’t have the technology until now.
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@TheGreatLlama @pluralistic Big companies that own brick-and-mortar stores have wanted to do surveillance pricing or algorithmically driven pricing for decades, since before there was a formal term for it. I first read about the concept in the early 2000s but IIRC it’s older than that.
They just didn’t have the technology until now.
@MisuseCase @MaddieM4 @TheGreatLlama @pluralistic The supermarket around the corner has replaced all the price tags with little e-ink displays that get updated wirelessly. Two-colour e-ink, that is, because they need red colour for the bargain prices.
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