#personalizedpricing — Public Fediverse posts
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#PersonalizedPricing Isn’t All Bad for Consumers https://www.cato.org/blog/personalized-pricing-isnt-all-bad-consumers
"Both individualized and dynamic pricing have existed in our daily lives for years. But the combination of the two using modern technology has led to fears… that “corporations are collecting our personal data to extract every cent they can to pad their pockets.”
… the best protection for consumers is a competitive market. In #competitiveMarkets with no supply constraints, individualized dynamic pricing has proven to largely benefit consumers. Any time a firm uses #IDP to raise prices for a given consumer, that automatically allows a competing firm to undercut those prices and take that consumer away"
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/
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New York just took a shot at personalized pricing.
Under a new state budget law, businesses that use personal data to set different prices must disclose it to customers with a notice.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/29/new-york-state-law-takes-aim-at-personalized-pricing/
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Gerade vom Konzept #PersonalizedPricing erfahren, mit dem mehrere Einzelhandelsunternehmen in den USA experimentieren.
Gesammelte Daten der Kundschaft werden verwendet, um an der Kasse einen individuellen Auf- oder Abschlag einzurechnen. Digitale Preisschilder am Regal werden ggf. schnell angepasst. -
"To be sure, airlines have long offered different prices to different people, even for the same route, based on factors like how travelers book—directly, via a comparison-shopping site or a travel agent—or how far in advance they shop. As far back as a decade ago, travel websites showed different prices for precisely the same itinerary based on details like which browser a purchaser was using to search for fares. But the use of AI supercharges this type of price discrimination and puts airlines into a legal gray area.
“AI isn’t just optimizing business operations, but fundamentally rewriting the rules of commerce and consumer experience,” Matt Britton, author of Generation AI, told Fortune. “For consumers, this means the era of “fair” pricing is over. The price you see is the price the algorithm thinks you’ll accept, not a universal rate.”
While differential pricing is not illegal per se, federal laws prohibit charging different rates to people based on their sex or ethnicity, and the use of some identifiers like ZIP codes have been shown to have a disparate impact on protected classes. Without a public record of all fares, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to determine if Delta is charging vastly different fares to people based on their membership in a protected class."
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@pluralistic delivers the goods again pulling #SurveillanceCaptialism, #PersonalizedPricing, #Monopolies, #Inflation, #FederalReserve #InterestRates, #DMCA, and #IP #Law together into the best description I've seen of how monopolies are fucking each and every one of us. Every. Single. Day.
With a word to the wise:
"any time a company gives you a hard-sell to order via its apps rather than its storefronts or its website, you should assume you're getting twiddled, hard." -
Drivers Are Rising Up Against Uber’s ‘Opaque’ Pay System - In London, Uber drivers are protesting a new payment system that they say makes it imposs... - https://www.wired.com/story/drivers-are-rising-up-against-ubers-opaque-pay-system/ #personalizedpricing #business
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@kakure @miklo @szbalint At first it's more the case of making use of info they've already acquired through privacy abuse. Then the data they collect on the sales will further exploit people, causing cyclic abuse of privacy. #Amazon has been caught doing #personalizedPricing before, on DVDs: https://www.consumerreports.org/car-insurance/why-you-may-be-paying-too-much-for-your-car-insurance