Timeline for Does browsing ticket sites in incognito mode and/or from different IP's result in cheaper ticket prices?
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| Feb 4, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | Phil | I usually compare prices with kayak.com. When I book a long distance flight, I check prices a couple of times a week to figure out when the cheapest time to fly is. I do this from home and from work (different computer, different IP) and the results are pretty much the same. | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 21:19 | answer | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 9, 2014 at 20:22 | comment | added | Sam | @HamletWong Did you try doing the same search in Incognito mode and did it return the previous, lower price? Just because the price went up coincidentally when you were about to book doesn't mean something nefarious is happening; seats on a flight are a limited resource and they do sell out. Also, the price may appear to fluctuate if someone is part way through booking a seat (placing a hold on it and making it unavailable) and then cancels. | |
| Jan 8, 2014 at 18:47 | history | protected | mindcorrosive | ||
| Jan 8, 2014 at 15:09 | comment | added | user9841 | This just happened to me with Delta. I checked a flight price, went back to gather info and then bang - the price went up $147 per seat per person! This is highly corrupt and should be investigated. | |
| Jun 6, 2013 at 23:49 | vote | accept | James Westwood | ||
| May 23, 2013 at 16:59 | answer | added | Shane | timeline score: 21 | |
| Apr 20, 2013 at 9:33 | history | edited | user3470 |
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| Apr 17, 2013 at 19:02 | history | edited | user3470 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2013 at 10:04 | comment | added | James Westwood | I haven't done any testing myself yet, however a lot of people in the thread I linked to claim to have seen price differences after using the techniques above. This is recent testing too, over the past few days. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 7:26 | comment | added | nsn | You can try it easily. Just open a flight website twice (with a few hours of interval), and ask a friend that never did that to do the same at his place, at the same hour the second time. You can also simulate "a friend" testing with a different browser but you will have the same IP address. Be carefull not to open the website too many times. A new effect can happen. If a flight has a lot of interest, specially if you take the reservation process a few steps further, prices can also raise for that (it's the law of the market, the fewer sits, more valuable they are). | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 7:17 | comment | added | nsn | As far as I know that has been tried but apparently, generally, companies gave up on that (these things are cyclic, I would not be surprised to hear that is happening again). Currently the problems out weight the advantages. For instance: depending on the business it's not clear that if a person visits a website twice he/she is willing to pay more. A visitor can just be looking for a bargain and give up on the buy or choose a concurrent product. | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 3:25 | comment | added | Golden Cuy | Related Skeptics Stack Exchange question: Do Ryanair use cookies to raise the price of their tickets after you have visited the site before? (Answer: no, they don't do that) | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 3:09 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackTravel/status/324358820413456384 | ||
| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:30 | history | edited | user1712 |
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| Apr 16, 2013 at 23:27 | history | asked | James Westwood | CC BY-SA 3.0 |