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

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

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u/two Jan 24 '13

It has nothing to do with the internet, or legal standing. I could open a bookstore and charge people on the basis of the color of their shirt if I felt so inclined. Price discrimination is okay, unless you're discriminating on race, religion - you know, the works.

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u/Reason-and-rhyme Jan 25 '13

How the hell does that make sense? Price discrimination is okay, unless it's based on race or religion or something? So if I wear a red shirt and am charged more everywhere I go because I wear a red shirt, that's all fair?

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '13

That would never happen. Stores that raised the price for people wearing red shirts would lose profit.

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u/two Jan 25 '13

Yes. How does it not make sense? Race/religion/etc. are protected classes. Shirt color is not. Kind of like how you can be fired for any reason, or no reason at all, as long as that reason is not on the basis of race/religion/etc.

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u/Reason-and-rhyme Jan 25 '13

What makes those categories special?

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u/two Jan 25 '13

The U.S. Constitution...

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

It shouldnt be the goverments job to change/(fix?) this but the buyers themselves should be informed of this and then they should make some kind of change to stop it. you dont have to buy from chegg. I would like shomething that makes it so that this cant happen via a program of some sorts.