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. . . . .Because it’s actually called “price gouging“, and THAT shit has NEVER fucking been illegal anywhere, let alone in the United States.

My immediate thought was, imagine you pick an item from the shelf marked at $1 and by the time you get to the checkout dynamic pricing has put it up to $1.50.

The serious answer is a two parter: 1) It isn't expressly illegal (because it hasn't been necessary due to business/society shifts) 2) That's literally how all pricing used to be done. Consistent pricing is a pretty recent thing (last hundred or so years)

It’s easy, pay politicians to pass laws and bills that benefit only the capitalist class. /s just in case

*exists.

Even if they're not doing it today, I've read that stores are considering changing the prices based on whatever they want on an hourly or even minute by minute basis. If they could get away with it they'd set the price base on who was looking at the sign at the time. Dystopian af

I hope everyone using dynamic pricing has their entire inventory swiped.

Well you see, crime is always legal the first time

It’s board-room speak for going to a store, asking how much a product costs, and the clerk responds with *cracks knuckles* “how much ya got?”

it's not price fixing if you call it something else

Maryland just banned the practice. I hope more states follow.

how can we even be sure it isn't individually pricing against protected classes?

What I don't understand is, how would that even work in a grocery store? Do they use like a grace period where they switch the label but for a while the registers give the cheaper price? If they raise the price in between me picking it up and paying for it, they deserve a life sentence.

Right??,

Blame the railroads 125 years ago.

Illegality is contingent on enforcing law, rather than protecting capital

It's literally discrimination

It's the sort of thing that no-one bothered to pass a law against because historically, no-one would have been able to do it even if they were monstrous enough to think it was a good idea.

‘Dynamic pricing’ is just a polite way of saying you’re being cheated

no law against building the torment nexus

and as long as we have a robust legal antitrust system to prevent the formation of monopolies, that theory kinda works we have one of those, right?

For $50 I'll explain it to you. Hurry. The price will be $60 tomorrow.

Its not! Something something same price for everyone laws exsist.

You essentially have to implement government price controls to defeat it (which I support), bc there is no legal definition of it that you could possibly make that doesn’t have so many loopholes that it becomes useless

Also legal!

Still do in most circles

Why say many words When rich do trick

I counter with dynamic shoplifting

Yeah I thought we explicitly made price discrimination illegal?

Anything can be legal enough when you own the politicians

"dynamic pricing" and by dynamic i mean i set the price to 0 when I bought it

companies make the rules thru lobbying

It isn’t. Our government is just old, slow, and overwhelmed.

Exactly!! Like I thought the point was that you're paying the same as everyone else for the same product from the same producer...

It's legal cuz it's not illegal. This is what they don't tell you. The law defines what you can't do, not what you can

Well you see, hating the poors is a great American past time.

They need some dynamic redistribution of their wealth

dynamically legal ofc

It is no different than stores that do not display prices in order to charge Black people more.

Where I come from we used to call it 'War Profiteering' and was a crime.

look, counter strike tried it and it didn’t work out, but maybe if it’s for beans instead there’s a chance

Aren't we supposed to monetize everything? Why wouldn't surveillance pricing be logical outcome of that?

I genuinely feel that the very clear and obvious indicators of the complete moral decay of the United States into nothing but a massive scam to wring every last penny from the majority of it's people have become so normalized through endless social conditioning, that most can't even recognize them

I don't even have the heart to do it to my guests in Planet Coaster

IMO Steam should add dynamic pricing, but just make it based on the size of your backlog and call it congestion pricing.

Seems like it's guaranteed to incentivize discrimination.

If you mean charging different prices to different online profiles, if I see them try it on me, I'll game the shit out of them. So will others. I don't think it will really last long.

So how does dynamic pricing work when I steal that shit in a place where it’s priced lower? Is it just a misdemeanour then?

Imagine seeing the price tick higher as you wait in line at the gas station. It's going up *because* there is a line.

A law hasn’t been specifically made against it so it’s legal.

especially when any % tax is associated with the cost of the good. Seems a very regressive way to tax.

Modern?

We don’t typically pass laws mandating how much stuff should cost

OMG, you're describing the premier of Ontario!

Excited to announce my new market innovation, "dynamic paying," where the customer gets to choose what portion of the bill they pay with each purchase.

Dunking on the poors

Manitoba government made it illegal.

“With this new business jargon, we can explain to legislators that this isn’t price gouging, we’re just keeping with the laws of supply and demand on a second-to-second basis!”

It's haggling, in the same way that EULAs are contract negotiations.

The millionaires use it to buy off lawmakers

Oh, so the the same logic we use for petrol we're using for everything now? T'rrific

It's called systemic discrimination pricing.

this is how i feel about predictive markets

My response will be to haggle. Hey, if pricing is arbitrary, everything is negotiable. I don't want to live in that world but if that is what is thrust upon me, it is my response to throw my hands up and start blustering.

Like everything shitty and weird in America, it's just going to be more racism

It's legal when the corporations control the government instead of the opposite.

it's a fancy way of saying price gouging

some inventions are bad and shouldn't be used

back in the good old days, businesses had a guy who would say “hey that’s fucking stupid” whenever somebody suggested an idea that was fucking stupid

Pretty sure airlines have been doing that shit for forever and now everyone else wants in on the scam.

yeah, choose that then. go on. it's just a choice, right?

wealth inequality 2.0 just dropped: now the money you get is also worth less than the money they get.

You see, nobody made a law against it, and it makes companies money, so they do it.

Tell me you don't know what dynamic pricing is without telling me you've got no idea what dynamic pricing is lol

I think it sucks because having grown up in a culture where fixed prices are standard I lacked the skills to do it effectively & if you’re a white person in a lot of these places the almost always correct assumption that the traders will make is that you can afford to pay more than a local

Nice how they make up a positive-sounding phrase to mean opportunistic mugging.

Laws only apply to the proles.

I was radicalized by it back when getting car insurance for the first time.