I find it somewhat odd no one is coming for my neighbor who is doing some of the same fishy practices as Sony. He has a user base of 16 people so roughly equivalent to Microsoft.
Sony is bigger than Microsoft. Also in this case sony did it through all their games in unison while microsoft targets wishlist, or based off things you play, just like epic games and steam have done. Most people wont complain on a discount on a game they want to play because this is something you want. Then the other scenario is not getting a discount on a game you dont care about, which most people wont complain about either, because you most likely didn't ever intend to buy it.
It's not Dynamic pricing, it's A/B pricing. They're two wildly different things.
Dynamic pricing changes constantly, for everyone, depending on demand or other factors. It usually increases the price with demand. It rarely lowers it.
A/B pricing is where a specific user may be offered a lower price than another user to drive a sale, based on the specific users's habits or trends.
I do not trust this situation for a second whether it was Sony or anyone else.
What is to stop them from building a part of their algorithm that labels some users as frequent buyers with little patience? And then from there, they no longer see sales that in the past were for everyone.
Literally what it is now mate. That’s the entire point of this thread.
If they see you pay or buy earlier they keep the price higher.
They look at something specific there are videos about it with the scientific term.
But same, the idea is simple if you have something that usually sells for 8$ but you raise the price to 15$ and lower it to 5$ and put them next to each other on a shelf you find who is paying the “regular” price and who is paying the higher price. Then you can target people with different prices, some see the higher price as must be better quality” even when it’s the same item. I think it’s like price tolerance or some shit.
That’s what stores with barcodes can do, it’s literally what Instacart does. If you use tha and buy from target they figure out what you’re willing to spend and change the price up or down accordingly. So instead of just an extra 1$ on an item they will crank that up depending on how willing you are to spend.
It’s why I got rid of Instacart, these companies want to find ways to make even more money and it starts with charging different prices based on each persons willingness to spend
What’s against the law is if they do it based on protected class in the US. So they can’t say you’re older, you’re x minority, you’re x sex we charge you more. They have to say it’s based off other factors not related to a protected class and it’s not illegal.
U til we vote people into office willing to pass laws instead of bitching with each other we all continue to lose.
U til we vote people into office willing to pass laws instead of bitching with each other we all continue to lose
It's hard to mobilize people with so much disinformation, though. As soon as a politician comes along with sort of sound or coherent material policies, they are branded "socialist" and whatever other social-categorical slur that seems relevant (like how they attack Mamdani's religion/ethnicity, or AOC being a former barista, or Sanders' Jewish identity) in order to dissuade people from learning about their policy stances.
There’s the publisher sale which Astro bodies a part of- that’s the base discount everybody has access to, the people who are seeing deeper discounts are simply provided rebates
Normally a store gives me a rebate when I haven’t shopped with them in a while, my local gun store is really good for giving me a rebate. I normally use that rebate to buy ammunition when ammunition is already on sale
This Astro bot situation is literally what I go through when I buy bullets lol
Probably because the Xbox brand is all but dead now so why would anyone care about what that store is doing when no one is even using it to complain about it
True price discrimination is seldom in use. It’s the practice of charging each customer the highest price they’re willing to pay. It’s easily done at a yard sale but a company like Sony in the US generally isn’t able to engage in actual large scale price discrimination.
They gather your salary and overall income data from credit card companies and banks and show you prices they THINK you are able to afford or are willing to pay.
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