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What use is the FTC when they haven't banned this nationwide yet?
Capitalist likely already bought them.
Also known as dynamic or personalized pricing, surveillance pricing is when a store charges different shoppers different prices for the same item at the same time, based on something the store “knows” about them as an individual. ... American consumers are subject to dynamic pricing millions of times every day when they are buying airline tickets online, using Uber, or ordering anything on Amazon.com.
Airplane tickets and Uber I was familiar with. I wasn't totally aware Amazon did that too.
I believe only Delta has said they will eventually use that kind of pricing, but I dont think they actually started yet. Ive tried checking the price of airline tickets on different devices that are both mine or not mine, and the prices are always the same whether they know its me or not.
The only thing “dynamic” about airline ticket pricing is that it changes over time, but that is not personalized pricing where people get charged different amounts at the same time. The article is conflating those two things
Funny how discriminatory pricing became illegal to exact against businesses in the 1930s and individuals just now.