How Booking.com manipulates users

Re:How Booking.com manipulates users by eh78ssxv2f on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @09:30PM (#15299893)

> Just ask TicketMaster.

TM has been doing pretty well in terms of stock price (not the user happiness) -- probably the metric that they care about. So, I am not sure if that's the best example.

Source: https://finance.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chd...

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Re:How Booking.com manipulates users by vmarsy on Thursday September 21, 2017 @02:50AM (#15301064)

I don't know if they will keep doing well in terms of stock price If/When Amazon release their ticket master competitor[1]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-ticketing/excl...

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Re:How Booking.com manipulates users by skrebbel on Thursday September 21, 2017 @07:12AM (#15302255)

Wait, because Amazon is known to do better than others on UX and lack of dark patterns?

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Re:How Booking.com manipulates users by metaobject on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:06PM (#15300047)

Don't they practically have a monopoly on ticket sales, though?

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Re:How Booking.com manipulates users by redial on Wednesday September 20, 2017 @10:37PM (#15300191)

They have a monopoly just like Comcast.

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