A few years ago I noticed that some items on Amazon were sold below cost when I was using my WORK computer but the same items were way above the suggested retail price when I was using my HOME computer. All on the same day. Then, "the Reg",
had a story on Amazon using cookies to take advantage of their customers. From the browser's cookies they can determine if you are a new customer who's shopping around for something (in which case they would sell below cost to suck you in) or if you are a long established customer, in which case they would charge you more. At the time Amazon said that what they were doing was not illegal and was just "an experiment". A few months later they were caught "experimenting" again...
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A few years ago I noticed that some items on Amazon were sold below cost when I was using my WORK computer but the same items were way above the suggested retail price when I was using my HOME computer. All on the same day. Then, "the Reg",
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had a story on Amazon using cookies to take advantage of their customers. From the browser's cookies they can determine if you are a new customer who's shopping around for something (in which case they would sell below cost to suck you in) or if you are a long established customer, in which case they would charge you more. At the time Amazon said that what they were doing was not illegal and was just "an experiment". A few months later they were caught "experimenting" again...