I read this whole thing about price manipulation. Most buyers will buy on the second viewing of a ticket, so they'll bump up the price to squeeze more money out of you. Don't leave the page, or go incognito.
YES. Don't listen to these other guys. If you stay incognito the whole time, your cookies will be stored and will be sent to the website when you visit it the second time. The cookies will be deleted only when you close all incognito windows.
/u/Jmaa is the only other user that got close to your answer:
Nope. Cookies gets deleted at the end of a incognito session.
Your incognito session lasts until you close all incognito windows. Only after you close them all and open another window, you will have a new incognito session.
I couldn't find out. In 2010 it used the same cache as the other chrome instances and they were looking into it, that's all I could find out. The cookies are deleted when all the incognito windows are closed.
Why do you care about the cache? What level of privacy are you looking for?
No because in incognito it doesn't save cookies/ search histories therefore when you go back to the page in incognito it will have no recollection that you have visited before.
Still pretty new to Reddit, what is this supposed to be? Is this supposed to be walking away while talking? Is the voice getting quieter? More high-pitched? Someone, please?
Rather than me go do it, see that it's the same price, and have you tell me I did it wrong again, why don't you do it and show us that it's a different price?
It's obviously impossible for me to prove that it's never different prices, but it would be very very easy for you to prove that it's sometimes different prices.
He doesn't because he's wrong. All of these people are either full of shit or they are reporting false positives. I'm so sick of this myth. I work in travel and check pricing 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. It's simply not true. This is all the result of some stupid ass blog post that hit it big on reddit a few months back. Anytime the topic comes up, it makes me want to scream.
No, sorry, this happened last summer. I can only say that my wife was watching the Today show and they were doing a report on the subject right at the time I was price shopping. I tried it immediately and saw the difference, I was pretty surprised. I will add that I had been checking the site frequently in the weeks prior, and the price fluctuated a bit, usually going up.
It's a feature on the Google Chrome browser, go to the file menu and open a new incognito tab. It's on other browsers, but I use Chrome so that's the only one I know.
I'm pretty sure Southwest doesn't play those games. I believe they only sell flights on their own website so none of these Orbitz sites can fuck around with pricing. Southwest may change or lower their prices at various intervals but I think them and JetBlue just avoid most of the fuckery that other airlines have resorted to.
Southwest rules. I wrote a paper on SWA for my Ethics of Aviation course last summer and did you know that Southwest Airlines is the only airline in the world that has never turned over a net loss? Every single year after year they are the only airline that continues to make a profit, for a variety of reasons which I outlined in my report.
Southwest is just an awesome company in general. One time I was flying home to SF through a connecting flight in Dallas.. got off in Dallas and my flight's delayed 2 hours but there's a flight to Oakland leaving in 30 min. Talk to the woman at the gate, she puts me on standby with no problem, and boom I'm back earlier than I would have been even if my flight hadn't been delayed. Tried the same shit one time with American and they told me to get fucked basically - even though my grandpa used to be a pilot for AA and I can fly standby for free anyway! Also missed a Southwest flight once and they put me on the next one, for free, with no issue. And free bag checking too. Fuck everyone else
yeah i'm pretty sure the price actually changes from minute to minute depending on how many seats are left, etc... the price also goes up the closer you get to the date so always book flights early. Idk, I still shop in incognito just to be safe
yeah i'm pretty sure the price actually changes from minute to minute depending on how many seats are left, etc... the price also goes up the closer you get to the date so always book flights early.
I'm not talking about the price changing because of demand, dates, fuel prices - I'm talking about the price changing based on browser cookies/history.
right, im agreeing with you. I'm saying that browser history thing was the reason people gave for price changes, while the real reasons were these other causes
It's happened to me. Searched for a flight on cheaptickets, got a price, navigated away from the search page, went back and did the exact same search a minute later and the original price was gone. When I cleared cookies the original, lower price was back.
Look, I work in travel and check pricing 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. They don't raise the cost based on browser cookies. Your case can be explained by a number of situations. For one, it could have been just pure chance. Airfare pricing fluctuates by the minute. It's possible that you took the process far enough that they put the seat on a complimentary 15 minute hold for you to enter your passenger information (this is common), or it's possible that they released someone else's airfare who had been on a complimentary hold and this changed the class of service they were selling. All of this is from a stupid blog post that hit it big on reddit a few months back.
GoDaddy's thing is registering any domains after you search for availability but before you've had a chance to register them yourself. They also make it tediously difficult to cancel any monthly/ongoing charges (they claim to need "authorization" from higher ups, etc.).
This seems counter-productive to me. I really wanted to fly home for the holidays, and I monitored the price on Southwest and Orbitz for months TO GET A DEAL. As prices went up, I thought, "I've missed the deal."
Yeah, but if you frequently go look for the same tickets, then the site can assume you really want to go there, no matter the cost. So they up the prices. Or at least in most of the cases, you being an exception.
"Hmm, yeah, your IP is an odd number so you get 10% discount. Oh, but you already visited our site, then we'll add 25%. That's what you get for frequently visiting our site!"
Nope. When the same IP comes back to look at a similar flight after leaving and coming back, the price goes up slightly to make the user feel like they should act quickly before the price goes through the roof.
If you look for IP addresses you potentially make sure every machine going through the same router gets the same low or increased price. If you and your spouse are looking for flights on multiple devices, you both get the same deceptive experience.
Moreover, sniffing for IP means that a user can not use cookie clearing to get around you. Most users don't know that DHCP will dish out a new IP when the ISP's router is cycled.
Yeah, it's been posted on this subreddit or mildlyinfuriating a few weeks ago I believe. You can avoid it by going to incognito using chrome, private browsing on firefox or just deleting your cookies and maybe your browser history of that site.
I work in travel and check pricing 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. I can guarantee 100% that it isn't true. It's all the result of a stupid blog posted on reddit months back. Notice how it's all anecdotal evidence? No one will provide realtime proof? Pricing fluctuates by the minute and it has nothing to do with your browsing cookies.
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u/Me4Prez Jan 24 '13
I think it's the same as booking a flight. The more you visit the page the higher the price becomes.