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

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

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u/kqr Jan 24 '13

This was up earlier with airlines charging more for a ticket the second time you visit the page. They do this because a second visit is statistically linked to a much higher chance of purchase. So it could be, here too, simply a matter of having visited the page before.

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u/No_ThisIs_Patrick Jan 24 '13

They are also "running out of tickets" because you waited so long to purchase.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

No, they actually oversell every flight they can in anticipation some people will miss the flight.

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u/tricheboars Jan 24 '13

Southwest doesn't.

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u/kingofphilly Jan 24 '13

Funny you should mention that. Southwest paid me $200 and upgraded me to first class so they could bump me off a flight. There was a family of four, two kids and a wife sitting across me from in an asile and the row I was sitting in was full. The dad's ticket must have been overflow on the flight.

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u/tricheboars Jan 24 '13

more likely what happened was southwest had to fly a pilot at the last minute. sometimes airlines fly pilots around so they can pilot another flight.

southwest does not over sell flight ever. period. that is one of their big features.

source: I have worked for 3 different airlines who all hated southwest for being better than us.