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>At 9:08 in the morning a nonstop ticket from New York to Los Angeles showed $233 on the airline's own site. By 9:41 it read $248. When a travel-alert email arrived at noon the fare had jumped again, this time to $287. Nothing mechanical changed on the aircraft. The swings came from software that treats every empty seat as a living security whose price must drift until the moment the door closes. Those rapid shifts are not rare. Airline fare files are pushed to global distribution networks three times each day, and each push can reprice a seat class across thousands of flights. On top of those bulk updates the revenue system listens to live booking activity. A single seat on a domestic route can march through as many as thirty-five different price points between its first day on sale and departure, some of them within the same morning or afternoon.

Archive: https://archive.today/OBySp From the post: >>At 9:08 in the morning a nonstop ticket from New York to Los Angeles showed $233 on the airline's own site. By 9:41 it read $248. When a travel-alert email arrived at noon the fare had jumped again, this time to $287. Nothing mechanical changed on the aircraft. The swings came from software that treats every empty seat as a living security whose price must drift until the moment the door closes. Those rapid shifts are not rare. Airline fare files are pushed to global distribution networks three times each day, and each push can reprice a seat class across thousands of flights. On top of those bulk updates the revenue system listens to live booking activity. A single seat on a domestic route can march through as many as thirty-five different price points between its first day on sale and departure, some of them within the same morning or afternoon.

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Not just that, if you look at a fare and don't book it right away, many airlines will see from your cookies that you were already there, what the price was before and raise it based on that. Some take it a step further and if you use another computer on the same network, it will increase the price.

The way to get around this (for now) is to turn off the wifi on your cell, then use the network coverage to access their site and they will think you are viewing that flight doe the first time today. I would Imagine using a VPN with a different PC would work too, but I have not tested it yet.

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Yeah, but like you said, cookies are a thing and they also have a way to fingerprint your browser that is a lot harder to fake.

You can use your regular system to "look around" but if you jump onto a VPN, use a VM with a different browser or something so there is no chance of it having fingerprinted you (hopefully).

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That’s cool. I didn’t realize that

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My rent is like that. I could ask to move apartments in the same complex every day and get a new quote. Usually it's only a few dollars difference but it's insane how they figure out how to nickle and dime you with the algos. Aren't they talking about the same kind of thing happening at the grocery store?

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I really think this shit should be illegal. I have seen it in action too.