 KilroyPremium,MVM
join:2002-11-21
Ann Arbor, MI | reply to StuartMW
Re: Mac users steered to pricier hotels on Orbitz said by "Article :
Orbitz found Mac users on average spend $20 to $30 more a night on hotels than their PC counterparts, a significant margin given the site's average nightly hotel booking is around $100, chief scientist Wai Gen Yee said. Mac users are 40 percent more likely to book a four or five-star hotel than PC users, Yee said, and when Mac and PC users book the same hotel, Mac users tend to stay in more expensive rooms.
How is this a surprise? They spend twice as much on a computer. Why should anything else be different?
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kudos:2 | Yeah... they seems to have a lot of disposable income.
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said by Kilroy:How is this a surprise?
Well my point in posting was to show yet another use of web tracking...
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KilroyPremium,MVM
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Ann Arbor, MI | said by StuartMW:said by Kilroy:How is this a surprise?
Well my point in posting was to show yet another use of web tracking... As I said, "How is this a surprise?" But, I don't see it as a bad thing. Mac users seem to think that cost equals quality, wether real or imagined. So, you have a vendor pointing them to something that will make both of them happy.
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 BranoI hate VogonsPremium,MVM
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said by StuartMW:Well my point in posting was to show yet another use of web tracking...
Yeah, this is a real life example of web tracking abuse  |
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 AVDRespice, Adspice, ProspicePremium
join:2003-02-06
Onion, NJ
kudos:1 | said by Brano:said by StuartMW:Well my point in posting was to show yet another use of web tracking...
Yeah, this is a real life example of web tracking abuse define abuse. It is common for top-tier websites to serve different wab pages based on different user-agents. This is just the next logical step.
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said by Brano:Yeah, this is a real life example of web tracking abuse
Yep.
"We've determined from your web searches that you're a 18yr old boy going to the Prom. Here's a list of motels that charge by the hour."
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kudos:7 | Also sent the wife to the wrong Burger King because the Big Mac place was closed after 3am
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said by StuartMW:Well my point in posting was to show yet another use of web tracking... Yep, and it's creepy.
There have to be a number of users who use one kind at work and another at home, or who own both. Ordinary people are bound to notice the discrepancy at some point, and when they do Orbitz can expect some blowback. I doubt you can seriously pigeonhole all customers based on os alone.
Predatory pricing at its worst. Somewhere lawyers are rubbing their hands in anticipation... |
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