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Posted on 11/16/2016 3:08:01 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
My wife and I were shopping for airline tickets to Dublin. Every time I went to the site to see the prices and get ready to make a reservaton, I notice the price had gone up a little bit (like $20). I suggested that my wife log on using her computer, and the prices were back down for her for the same flight. We booked the flight on her computer right then and there.
I think that they know that if you come back to the same site multiple times, you are interested and they raise the price.
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posted on
11/16/2016 6:52:47 AM PST
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super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: afraidfortherepublic
Some online stores are upfront up the shipping charges being higher in certain areas.
QVC and HSN are two of them. If you live in a rural area your costs will be higher. Makes sense to me.
To: super7man
I received a request from American Airlines to check in on line for a recent flight and to pay for my checked bag by credit card. I did, but they made me pay again at the airport. I still have to straighten that out with them. Grrrr.
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posted on
11/16/2016 7:00:11 AM PST
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afraidfortherepublic
( “Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”)
To: afraidfortherepublic
I feel for ya’. Its frustrating.
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posted on
11/16/2016 7:08:28 AM PST
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super7man
(Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
To: afraidfortherepublic
If one buys online from one of the big box retailers there shouldn't be a problem, especially if they are all over the United States, especially if these big box stores have a high turn around in products.
Take for instant Walmart, Target, Home Depot, Lowe's and stores like that, they have Warehouses all over United States and all most all of them are near major shipping hubs of United states, so their isn't going to be a major problem in buying from them.
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posted on
11/16/2016 7:26:27 AM PST
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ReformedBeckite
(1 of 3 I'm only allowing my self each day)
To: afraidfortherepublic
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posted on
11/16/2016 10:51:30 AM PST
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Albion Wilde
("Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo."--Donald Trump)
To: J.Deere Man
Another useless study trying to create an issue where none exists. We use to call it shopping around. Heck, even big box stores may have different prices on the same items in the same towns. In fact, I have seen gas stations with a 20 cent difference in price just a couple miles apart. Just be a smart consumer. Same could also apply to homes. Using this logic shouldnt the price of a home in N.Y. be the same as a home in Indiana.
Not quite. This would be more like everyone going to the same store, then they change your item prices after they check your driver's license and see where you're from. Different shipping costs to different places makes sense. But sneaky methods of looking at your browsing history and pulling locations, then varying prices based on that info, is pretty shady. If the home in Indiana and the home in NY were in the same location, and exactly identical, but had different prices for buyers from NY or IN, then yes your analogy would work.
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