High Monarch of MacDebate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
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My friend (pc/linux guy) is buying a second hand powermac off ebay. it comes with only 256MB ram and he wanted to get 512 more. so i straight away went to crucial.com (we were chatting on msn) to calculate how much it would cost and so did he on his end. then i told him it would cost 108 and he told me it would cost 112. then at the same time we both copy pasted the url where we were looking at.
both urls were the same. it was for an Apple PowerMac G4 800 (single) on curcial. except when i visit the link i see 108 and we he checks the link he sees 112. Since my home server is a pc running windows i copy pasted the url there and to my suprise the price suddenly turned to 112. Its not a big difference only 4$ but its strange that crucial is doing this.. here are some screenshots portable: MacBook 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD | personal: PowerMac G5 dual 2.3ghz, 6GB RAM, 6TB HD | work: MacBook Pro 2.5ghz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD | car: Alpine iDA-W407 with black iPod 80GB | pocket: iPhone 3GS with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's |
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careful with axes
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
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LOL!
$118.8 in IE6 (XP) $112.26 in Firefox (XP) and IE5.2 (OS X) $108.99 in Firefox (OS X) |
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M AH - ch ain saw
Join Date: May 2004
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That is dynamic pricing. A lot of companies are doing it, they track your cookies, and then price to match, competativley for some.. or not so much.
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careful with axes
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
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I blocked cookies and the price went down to $108.99. I erased my old Crucial cookies and the price jumped to $118.8... |
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High Monarch of MacDebate
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Kuwait
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so how do we get the lowest prices usually? blocking cookies?
i dont think this is a fair practice. ok i am getting a cheaper price cuz i am on a mac but imagine it was the other way around. i cant believe what i would do if amazon charged me extra if i purchased from a mac but cheaper from a pc. portable: MacBook 2.4Ghz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HD | personal: PowerMac G5 dual 2.3ghz, 6GB RAM, 6TB HD | work: MacBook Pro 2.5ghz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD | car: Alpine iDA-W407 with black iPod 80GB | pocket: iPhone 3GS with Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5 Pro's |
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Student extraordinaire
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Canberra, Australia
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How do the companies work out the price to charge? Do they think Mac users are smarter and will shop around?
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Hates the Infotainment
Join Date: May 2004
Location: NSA Archives
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As for the Mac thing, I don't think so because the last thing I did after buying was to click the generic link for PC3200 and it was actually cheaper than the Mac-specific links I went through. So I called them to get a credit. I also notice that sometimes the machine you choose has an effect on price, even for the same type of RAM. It might be cheapest to actually click the generic links.... ...into the light of a dark black night. |
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