The rise of surge pricing: ‘It will eventually be everywhere’ (ft.com) 5 points by pmastela 2y ago ↗ HN
[–] mnky9800n 2y ago ↗ I don't think it's a fair comparison to compare current dynamic pricing practices with haggling. I can't go into the pub and haggle the price of a dynamically priced beer.
[–] robocat 2y ago ↗ https://archive.ph/yS3UOIt is usually hard to tell the difference between surge pricing and price discrimination (efforts to charge more to those that can pay more).
[–] cc101 2y ago ↗ Surge pricing would tend to make planning impossible and depress activity in that market.
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[ 0.29 ms ] story [ 1474 ms ] threadIt is usually hard to tell the difference between surge pricing and price discrimination (efforts to charge more to those that can pay more).