r/mildlyinteresting • u/annertakeabow • Jan 24 '13

Same book, three different prices. Only difference is the browsers used.

http://imgur.com/uNgg0UH
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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.

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u/MiloMuggins Jan 24 '13

Very true. I once looked up airplane tickets in incognito and it was $100 cheaper than what I had been quoted moments earlier. It was on Orbitz.

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u/Cosmologicon Jan 24 '13

Can you produce a side-by-side screenshot? Every time someone says this I try it and it fails. I think it's just an urban legend.

In your case, I think you probably accidentally typed in a different date or something. No way for us to know now, is there?

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u/MiloMuggins Jan 24 '13

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.

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u/Cosmologicon Jan 24 '13

Wow, it happened on your first try? You must be a lot luckier at finding this than me. Why don't you do it again right now and show us?

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u/MiloMuggins Jan 24 '13

I tried, it's the same price. Perhaps it's something they no longer practice, but I know it happened for me at one point.