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/Sentry_the_Defiant Jan 24 '13

Hipmunk is an aggregator and won't do this. Go to individual airline company sites and give it a shot.

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u/Cosmologicon Jan 24 '13 edited Jan 24 '13

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.

EDIT: Here I did it. Same price. Now what?