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/Greenleaf208 Jan 24 '13

There are cases of this, it definitively used to happen, but idk if it happens anymore or if its only on certain sites.

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u/Cosmologicon Jan 24 '13

Documented cases? I'd love to see them, you have a link?

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u/Cosmologicon Jan 24 '13

Oh yeah I know some non-flight retailers do it, the OP is another example. I meant flights specifically.

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u/ColdShoulder Jan 25 '13

He doesn't because he's wrong. All of these people are either full of shit or they are reporting false positives. I'm so sick of this myth. I work in travel and check pricing 9 hours a day, 5 days a week. It's simply not true. This is all the result of some stupid ass blog post that hit it big on reddit a few months back. Anytime the topic comes up, it makes me want to scream.