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Orbitz Presenting More Expensive Hotels to Mac Users
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I recall years ago Crucial actually changed their RAM prices based on the incoming user agent you used. Orbitz is not going that far but still...
What happens if I log in from my Linux machine? Or my Mac, but I'm using a browser in a Citrix session running on Windows?
I'm assuming they're just using the user agent string.
I didn't quote your second "point" because frankly, I think you have no basis for making a case that Orbitz is "lying" to their customers and/or breaching their "promises" that they've made.
Here's an example. Where exactly is this list of hotel prices in downtown Chicago representing a "lie" to me as a potential customer and/or breaching their promise? Heck, the way their published "Low Price Guarantee" works, if I find the same hotel room priced cheaper, including their own site, I get money back. I could earn a living off of their misbehavior if they actually were attempting to charge me (a Mac user) a higher price than a Windows user.
I will say one thing, however, as a resident of Chicago. The Congress Hotel is in no way, shape or form a "Best Value" at any price. Period.
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I hope these idiots are "correcting" for geography too, because those "average" figures are just insane for around here, whether Mac or Windows user. My household income isn't even in that league. That doesn't mean I'm poor, just that I live in a medium-sized city in the Midwest.
I own a Mac because it's a better computer, and that's worth a little more money to me. That doesn't mean I'm some pampered upper-class twit who likes to piss away money on overpriced hotels. In the future I'll stick to other services, which hopefully won't assume that because I use a 5-year-old iMac, I can afford to waste money when I travel.
I own a Mac because it's a better computer, and that's worth a little more money to me. That doesn't mean I'm some pampered upper-class twit who likes to piss away money on overpriced hotels. In the future I'll stick to other services, which hopefully won't assume that because I use a 5-year-old iMac, I can afford to waste money when I travel.
Oh we're going for the legal definition as far as how much they can fudge things? Okay then.
This conversation is going no where because you are not only okay with but you condone behavior where lie by omission or falsely implying something is a-okay because they didn't explicitly say something they are legally liable for. And why? Because greed is good, apparently.
And yet people whine when an app is more than 99 cents.
Not so. That's the iOS app store, which has all the iOS users in it, many of whom use PCs. The Mac OS app store apps command higher prices than their iOS app store app counterparts (thus why I have stopped supporting iOS... I've found that for the same amount of time/effort, I can get about 10x as much revenue by targeting Mac OS users rather than iOS users... although I think I'm going to experiment with using a free iOS app to promote a fairly expensive ($9.99ish - the highest price I've ever tried before was $2.99, so it's new territory for me,) Mac OS app...
Im really stunned at people getting so wound up over such a low amount of fiscal difference in the order of presented results, just select the cheapest rooms first ordering, is it really that difficult?!?
Plus worst case scenario, it's what $20 or about £15, please that's almost nothing per night additional especially once room taxes etc... are added
Plus worst case scenario, it's what $20 or about £15, please that's almost nothing per night additional especially once room taxes etc... are added
Android users don't pay for hotel rooms
They just root the front desk and get thier room for free
DI just had to google it. You actually could get a C64 on the net, surfing web pages. That's pretty cool.
Legal definition? No, I'm not using a legal definition. I'm using a graphical example of how the data is actually represented on their site. You are the one making claims that their site tuning by user profile represents a lie, an omission of truth and a false implication of "something" but you've yet to prove any of this and the evidence is right there in front of you. I just can't for the life of me figure out how you can draw deceptive business practices out of something so simple as a suggestive sales technique. By your standards "Would you like fries with that?" is equivalent to a death threat (well....ok, I may agree with you a bit there if that's the case).
By any definition, a lie is an overt attempt to deceive someone by intentionally not telling the truth.
So I'll ask again....where are they intentionally attempting to deceive you, the customer? You've made some pretty bold claims that they are lying (multiple times now). All I'm asking you is to prove your point.
By pushing higher priced hotels (not differently priced....different hotels/rooms that are priced higher) to customers that their own profiling suggests are willing to pay higher prices for a nights' sleep...how is this a lie?
Using your car analogy....a well-dressed customer comes into the GM dealer and the sales person pushes them to the Buick side of the lot rather than the Chevy side, or a dude dressed like a cowboy gets shuttled over to the GM Truck side of the lot right away. Is that lying/deceptive/discriminatory or is that just "reading the customer" and trying for the best sale? The customer can always say "No thanks, I prefer a Chevy" and that's exactly what you can do on Orbitz' site as well if you wish.
Again, if you read the article its pretty clear that they are suggesting higher priced venues....but not charging different prices to two different profiles. Both customers can get the same room, same price, low price guarantee intact if they wish.
So again:
-Where are they lying, fibbing, cheating or "fill in word for deceptive trade practices here"?
-Where are they intentionally attempting to deceive a customer?
-Where is the customer being cheated in any fashion whatsoever?
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You need to visit the iPhone forums more often. There's a busload of former iPhone users who now have Androids there.
Sucks but stuff like this happns.
I booked a room at a hilton resort in the pacific a couple of weeks ago.
The price of the SAME room was $200 more a night from the US site compared to the international hilton site.
I booked a room at a hilton resort in the pacific a couple of weeks ago.
The price of the SAME room was $200 more a night from the US site compared to the international hilton site.
Oh
My
God
PC users and Mac users pay the same price. The results are ordered differently based on demographics but the prices are the same. Are you people really that dense?
My
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PC users and Mac users pay the same price. The results are ordered differently based on demographics but the prices are the same. Are you people really that dense?
