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Re: Is this really true?

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Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 10595311)

as far as I'm concerned I've never had an issue with prices being cookied or ip'd or even hiked by 30% overnight as someone reckoned recently. Perhaps I'm just lucky :D

someone was unlucky and missed the Early Bird Sale cut off.

Re: Is this really true?

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Originally Posted by jazzys (Post 10594421)

"You should delete your browser cookies before buying airline tickets - Ticket fares go up when youâ€™ve visited a site multiple times."

I read that this morning and wondered if anyone had experienced it?

Cheers

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...ch_Below_Video

"Office Depot, for example, told the Journal that it uses "customers' browsing history and geolocation" to vary the offers and products it displays to a visitor to its site"

Re: Is this really true?

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Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 10595311)

All of which explains why the prices I've been seeing lately on BA, Qantas, Zuji and Expedia are all the same when I search, regardless of whether it is one of the work ocs (one telstra, one Optus), my own laptop or my iphone....:confused:

Not that I have the slightest interest in deciphering conspiracy theories mind you, as far as I'm concerned I've never had an issue with prices being cookied or ip'd or even hiked by 30% overnight as someone reckoned recently. Perhaps I'm just lucky :D

I've not seen it on either BA or Qantas but I did on Easyjet a few years back. It is probably becoming less of an 'issue' with airlines as one can use Zuji or Expedia to bulk check so if there were such descrepencies then an airline would get a pretty bad name for itself.

I do recall trying to book some flights from London to Zurich once. I was on my work pc and a mate was on his and easyjet were throwing out different prices for each of us for the same flight. Again I don't think it happens too much with the main airlines these days. Too much risk in hitting the headlines for the wrong reason.