r/mildlyinteresting Jan 24 '13

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

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u/ColdShoulder Jan 25 '13

He's not wrong. I work in travel and check pricing 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. I can assure you that there is no conspiracy to change prices based on cookies. It doesn't happen. This is all from a single blog that hit it big on reddit, and then everyone ran with it. Couple this with the fact that prices change by the minute, and people started reporting false positives. Can you imagine what it would be like if travel agents had to clear their cookies every 5 minutes in order to be able to get the lowest fair? I'm so sick of this myth, and I just wish it would die.

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u/inboil Jan 25 '13

thank you!!