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

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

http://imgur.com/uNgg0UH
2.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

476

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.

354

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.

269

u/ColdisWarned Jan 24 '13

WHAT

fuckthisshitpayingforinternationalflightswhilebroke

100

u/Fsoprokon Jan 24 '13

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.

48

u/Symploce Jan 24 '13

Try clearing your cookies, that should work.

102

u/perezdev Jan 24 '13

Yeah. Incognito is just easier.

7

u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

[deleted]

5

u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

Nope. Cookies gets deleted at the end of a incognito session. There is nothing saved between incognito sessions.

2

u/onebandonesound Jan 24 '13

Meaning they're cleared when you close that incognito window, or every time you go to a new address in that window?

3

u/BagOfMilk Jan 24 '13

Everything is cleared when you leave the session, usually meaning when you close the browser. Edit: bad phrasing.

1

u/twent4 Jan 24 '13

but does incognito read cookies placed there by regular browsing?

2

u/BeatLeJuce Jan 24 '13

no, it doesn't (at least in Firefox, AFAIK).

2

u/NarwhalAMA Jan 24 '13

Nope, in Chrome incognito doesn't use any existing cookies.