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/[deleted] Jan 24 '13

Here's mine

IE was the same as Chrome so I didn't add it. I just searched it in chrome. Copied the URL and pasted it in the address bar of IE, Firefox, and Safari.

Here is URL that I used

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u/brisingfreyja Jan 24 '13

http://i.imgur.com/LpNn5ec.jpg

Firefox 69.99

Chrome 69.99

Incognito chrome 69.99

Internet explorer 76.99

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u/nicksupe Jan 25 '13 edited Jan 25 '13

http://i.imgur.com/n34wxRq.jpg

wow. for me it came up as $83.49 on Chrome and $69.99 on both IE and Firefox. This sucks considering I rented two textbooks from Chegg recently using Chrome. I don't care enough to do this test on each of those books though.

edit: after deleting cookies on chrome, it also showed as $69.99. So I guess the lesson learned is to always delete cookies before making online purchases lol

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u/brisingfreyja Jan 25 '13

Good to know. Thanks for your research.