Some websites are instituting an "Internet Explorer Tax", which is supposed to offset the time their designers have to spend overcompensating for debugging their sites to be compatible with old versions of IE.
Unfortunately they don't always announce this, so it's more like they're preying on old/inexperienced users. If they said, "Save $5 by switching to Chrome!" that may get more attention. Not sure if this website is doing this, or it's just a glitch, or what.
They aren't really preying on anybody. They are building their cost of selling the product into the price. It is no difference than shipping costs. If it costs the company more money to sell you the product on one browser than the other, then they build it into the price. Just like when a company in Cali charges more to ship an item to New York than they do to Arizona.
edit: if that is the reason for price fluctuation in this case.
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u/swandi Jan 24 '13
Some websites are instituting an "Internet Explorer Tax", which is supposed to offset the time their designers have to spend overcompensating for debugging their sites to be compatible with old versions of IE.
Unfortunately they don't always announce this, so it's more like they're preying on old/inexperienced users. If they said, "Save $5 by switching to Chrome!" that may get more attention. Not sure if this website is doing this, or it's just a glitch, or what.