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.
Same, I’m also in a bunch of deals and sales channels… Sometimes you can find great things. Most differences in pricing comes from franchise/corporate pricing and slight price variations… The price of milk, eggs and soda, etc will be slightly different in NC and CA because of cost of living, taxes, and competition.
Now would I be surprised if mega corporations started a system where they varied price based on what they think they can get out of each person? No I wouldn’t. Do I think they’re looking at all that big data while twirling their mustaches and rubbing their hands together? Yeah I do, greedy little pricks. I just don’t think we’re there yet.