Price Discrimination

The cluster centers on discussions of price discrimination as a business pricing strategy, including explanations, examples like coupons or dynamic pricing, links to economics resources, and debates on its morality, legality, and effectiveness.

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GTP Nov 10, 2025 View on HN

Interesting price discrimination here.

em3rgent0rdr Nov 13, 2017 View on HN

This is known as "Price Discrimination" and is perfectly fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

baddox Jul 10, 2014 View on HN

Sounds like a textbook case for http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination.

cvalka Oct 12, 2024 View on HN

How dare you bypass our price discrimination!

wcoenen Jun 9, 2024 View on HN

That seems plausible. There is a trend happening where businesses are increasingly offering different prices to different customers. The Odd Lots podcast just did an episode about it. One of the more memorable examples discussed was to offer a higher price to customers who have probably received their paycheck today.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46T--lB2P3Q

iamacynic May 4, 2017 View on HN

sounds like the price discrimination is working.

mizzao Oct 5, 2015 View on HN

Yep, this particular pricing structure is all about price discrimination.

paraschopra Jan 26, 2011 View on HN

The concept is called "price discrimination". There is a great discussion going in this thread and I may be wrong at this. Even if it may not be illegal, it would leave a bad taste in your potential customers' mouth especially since there are better alternatives.

rythie Sep 26, 2013 View on HN

I'm guessing this an attempt at Price Discrimination: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

poolpartee Mar 31, 2022 View on HN

but it's actually price discrimination.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination