It drives me crazy when prices of some products changes multiple times in just several minutes span … I’m curious about your experience with buying stuff/planning holidays before dynamic pricing became a common thing.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    That’s an entirely new concept to me. Where does this happen outside the stock market?

      • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Okay, interesting. I don’t fly, I don’t book hotel rooms, but I do buy stuff online and I haven’t seen this ever. Weird.

        • the_right_god@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          You may not be aware of that, but based on your location (eg. Germany), some stores can charge you more. When some stores record higher demand for a product, they can drastically increase the price within minutes. You may be not aware of that, but under the hood this stuff happens quite often. It drives me crazy when buying last minute ticket/hotel cost fortune …

        • dan@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          You’re not really supposed to notice, but it definitely happens. Biggest offender for normal retail stuff is Amazon. Put an Amazon url into a price tracker like camelcamelcamel and you’ll see a huge amount of variation for most products.

          • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            I’m aware that prices can vary from day to day, but wild changes up and down within minutes is news to me.