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Online Shoppers Don't Like The Injustice Of Overpaying
from the just-like-the-real-world dept
For some time, online retailers have been charging different prices to different people, but apparently most online shoppers still haven't caught on. A new study by UPenn's Annenberg Public Policy Center finds that a majority of internet users believed the practice was illegal. Of course, it makes perfect business sense, maximizing what consumers will pay based on their known characteristics, as long as it's not unconsitutionally discriminatory or anticompetitive. It happens all the time in the brick-and-mortar world. For example, geographic considerations have long played into pricing (higher prices in richer areas) and have already carried over to e-commerce. More problematic for online retailers, however, is another finding in the Annenberg study: a large percentage of people -- 87 percent -- strongly object to these pricing practices. It strikes them as fundamentally unfair, and perhaps too invasive when they discover that their surfing habits are being tracked to enable it. Online retailers might want to be careful with these pricing practices, especially if customers get wind of them. Logical or not, the negative PR that ensues could do more harm to business than the profits gained.
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Ya' know companies: A fair price for a quality product/service, and you should be successful. Once you start screwing at least some of your customers to further enhance the bottom line, you've got to know that sometime somehow that is going to bite you in the ass.
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If the price isn't what you want to pay, go somewhere else. It's only realistic in a capitalist economy.
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That's why...
I'm sure we'll see more of these.
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