Most of the things you interact with online are tracking your location, your device type, and your digital footprint to predict exactly how desperate you are to buy something. If the algorithm thinks you have money, or simply lack options, it alters the price in real-time.
To prove how widespread “surveillance pricing” has become, I decided to see if I could outsmart it. This involved exploiting corporate registry loopholes to create a fake corporate entity, hiring an improv actor off Craigslist to establish a completely separate digital identity, and strapping a burner phone to a drone to make purchases from the airspace above the wealthiest gated community in Minnesota.
Dynamic pricing deserves far more transparency than it gets.
In genuinely curious about this, what storefronts are using this regularly?
There are so many price aggregator/tracking tools of there, it’s easy to gut check if you’re getting scammed. The only really obvious one I’ve encountered is Uber/Lyft, where the price of the same ride can vary dramatically between people and moments in time.
My Amazon prices, despite regular ups and downs based on the market, has never deviated from what CamelCamelCamel thinks the price should be. Hotels and plane tickets purchased direct are, within a margin of error, the same as what’s shown on Google or Expedia.
Am I getting bamboozled into paying an extra $5 on a $200 plane ticket because i fall into a demographic? Maybe, but IDK what would be adding up to “thousands of dollars” in my life, curious where my blindspots are.
there comes a point where it’s morally better to just steal from the store
Theres no such thing in my country and if there was it would be illegal
July in Canada the Liberals got around to addressing it in C-36…idk. It still didn’t explicitly ban the practice.
Here’s a better trick, Go to a food broker overnight, take the food truck, remove the GPS, deposit the food to the food bank, repeat.
