• SplashJackson@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    What is surveillance pricing? Are they like using cookies to subtley raise the price on thing you’re searching for?

    • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      Things like using surveillance to figure out when your payday is and raising prices on that day because you psychologically are more willing to spend

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          4 minutes ago

          We let them and also you need quite a lot of skill to overcome it as it is a kind of a cat and mouse game. And there’s a end game of "tell us who you are or else we don’t tell you the price, or we tell you only the ‘highest price that nobody pays’ "