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Also a couple of years ago we discovered that Booking shows different prices from different locations and different devices. Prices are higher at some hotels for Mac/iPhone users and Western Europe/US customers. Not sure if they're still doing it, but it's easily testable if someone wants to investigate.


Showed me the same results (price wise, order was different) in Chrome Incognito on Win 10 desktop and Android.


They're still doing it.

Screenshots taken literally seconds apart refreshed multiple times to make sure it's still the same:

http://eugene.lt/booking/1.png macOS on a MacBook Pro from New York, NY (via a DigitalOcean droplet VPN)

http://eugene.lt/booking/2.png Fresh Windows 10 VM from Vilnius, Lithuania


I think you've got the links the wrong way around.

But this is basic market segmentation, just based on the person buying and not on the product being sold. Hence why it seems more scummy.


Thanks, fixed it.




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