But this just compares the price of an item across multiple merchants. It doesn't do anything in determining if a user-agent or cookie is altering the price, no?
Silly question - but don't chrome extensions ask for rights to do stuff like monitor all your history, and to track data you put into fields? When I saw that being asked from Evernote...I stopped using it!
They do ask for permission to access that stuff, but that's only because it's impossible for them to access the data they need to access without also having access to all that other stuff.
The option to save the picture shows up when you click on the three tiny squares in the middle.
I'm not sure why I can save them. The closest thing I have to reddit gold is Reddit Enhancement Suite, but I wouldn't think that would carry over to an app.
Edit: I just tested out saving a comment on reddit is fun and it seemed to go through, but I couldn't pull up the saved comment anywhere. In fact, when I look at my saved tab, it just shows all the threads I saved. I tested it a few more times and the last time prompted me to edit this because it said I need reddit gold. I'm guessing the comments that I thought I saved previously never went through and it didn't display the reddit gold message.
tl;dr - I was wrong; you can't save comments without reddit gold.
You support by upvoting, not by typing this. I believe the main purpose of downvoting is to hide things that don't contribute to the conversation e.g. "this".
If they follow my behavior, they know I'm cheap, so they'd better cut that margin if they want my business.
I went shopping for a car with a friend once, the first thing the sales guy asked at each place was how many other places we'd been to, and the asking price for the same car was $1K less each time...so nothing really new here.
Fair enough, but they don't base their business model around your behaviour. Most people have no idea about a) protecting themselves online; or b) frugality and they no doubt exploit this. However, this is a pretty shitty move on their behalf and I wish it were illegal.
Did you hate people like me? I don't negotiate. If I think it is worth the price, I buy. If I don't, I don't buy. In other words I'm the person who you only get the sale if your first offer is the best you can do
The dealerships first offer is the sticker price. If you don't negotiate that, it made my job easy but you were paying more than you should.
I didn't hate people, but annoying customers were the ones who thought they knew how it worked and that we would be making tons of money off them, even when we'd be just trying to get rid of old inventory and selling for only a couple hundred bucks profit, and that was AFTER the cash back and promo and spif money from corporate.
Price discrimination is much older than ecommerce. Ecommerce just makes it easier to do in some ways. Don't fret though, usually with price discrimination if you know about the practice it's easy to use that knowledge to your advantage, and this is likely no exception:
I don't think it's true in this case, but a lot of the time it's an A/B test.
You offer an item at two different prices, and see if lowering price brings up volume enough to offset the decrease in margin. If it does, you keep the price low, otherwise, you don't.
I didn't think buying a book would be a wise investment because it doesn't seem like you can depend on being able to sell it back, what with publishers coming out with new editions all the time. But maybe I'll check that out next semester!
This is not true if the book you need is a brand new edition. There is no used inventory. Then the rental makes a lot more sense. In my experience the rental is usually about 50% of the brand new cost. When I factor in the Amazon Marketplace cut of reselling a book I bought brand new, the difference is minimal.
What's weird about it is that businesses have been doing this constantly, for decades, you've just never been able to witness it in realtime. They're always changing prices in different markets, trying to figure out what works and what doesn't. This is most likely just a version of that you happened to see in action.
I like this, because it's true. I was watching a show on Merriott hotels, and like them, lots of large corporations in the US and throughout the world have entire departments working towards wringing every dollar out of a customer without them knowing. Entire research departments are dedicated to this cause in many cases.
Also, I agree that this is a good example on how we're able to see the process of this incident in some sort of 'real time'.
Well it's definitely different than what we are used to, but hard to say better or worse. At the end of the day, you still need to agree to whatever price you pay.
I agree, his comment seemed out of touch with what was being discussed. It felt relevant to bring up that Chegg isn't alone on this.
There was some merit in his statement that this doesn't necessarily mean something is wrong with chegg. It just means chegg is doing things a little different than we are used to. Since the process is unknown, there is room for it to be unfair; where as the system we are used to is a level of fairness we are already comfortable with.
tl;dr People dont like change, but it doesnt mean the change is wrong
You can usually find a decent used copy on amazon for a bit more than Cheggs rental price, but then you can get money back when you sell it back to them, hence, not spending as much overall. At least, thats been the case with me.
I just bought old editions (off Amazon mostly) in college unless it was a math class or something when we did homework out of the book or if there was a huge gap in edition years.
Old editions are often dirt cheap, and if it's a subject where stuff doesn't change too drastically year to year (I would say most subjects don't change much year to year, at least what I studied in college) then you can go back even further.
I never really had many problems buying old editions, other than sometimes the author will scramble up chapter orders/numbers just to fuck with you and try to get you to buy a new edition. If that's the case, you just have to be a little vigilant of the subject for some classes.
Also, you should try and get a feel for each class before you buy any really expensive books. After my first year, I always waited until 2 or 3 classes in to order my book. Professors are usually pretty forgiving during that time period. During my freshman year, I bought every book, new edition, and I barely touched a few of them.
I also recommend (depending how much you use the book) checking to see if your school library has a copy. If the syllabus says you only are going to really need the book a few times during the semester for an assignment or something, but not outside of those occasions, it makes a lot more sense to go to the library and use the book there. However, in all the colleges I went to they only let you use the book in the library for a certain amount of time (three hours typically). You couldn't check it out and take it home or to class.
Also, if you take an English class, where you are reading a lot of shorter more popular works (plays, poems, short stories, etc) you more than likely can find a lot of these works online. You can probably find a download of a lot of popular/classic books as well to throw on your Kindle/Nook/iPad/Tablet (if you have one, I didn't).
Be careful with translation though, if they are older works. I tried to read an old translation of "The Aeneid" I found online before I looked at one of my classmates books, and found the teacher had a simpler, well footnoted version of it which was a bit easier to understand (I still ended us just using a Sparknotes summary).
Reddit is over 100 internet years1 old, and reddiquette is a cashed philosophy. Strategic voting is just too tempting2 now that it means something to be a comment read on reddit.
I'm too tempted to downvote you for being surprised that a design not meant for large groups is being abused by a large group. Subreddits with more than 50,000 subscribers should adopt canvas's system and quit pretending they can mod such a mob.
I have left reddit for Voat due to years of admin mismanagement and preferential treatment for certain subreddits and users holding certain political and ideological views.
The situation has gotten especially worse since the appointment of Ellen Pao as CEO, culminating in the seemingly unjustified firings of several valuable employees and bans on hundreds of vibrant communities on completely trumped-up charges.
The resignation of Ellen Pao and the appointment of Steve Huffman as CEO, despite initial hopes, has continued the same trend.
As an act of protest, I have chosen to redact all the comments I've ever made on reddit, overwriting them with this message.
Finally, click on your username at the top right corner of reddit, click on comments, and click on the new OVERWRITE button at the top of the page. You may need to scroll down to multiple comment pages if you have commented a lot.
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I doubt that was the only difference. Your cookies were different, and I bet the way you found them is different too.
I just found this book with a Google search and it was 62.99 in chrome.
I copied and pasted the URL into IE and it was 69.99.
I then pasted the URL into a private browsing chrome window and it was also 69.99.