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Re:Double your price (and no, I'm not kidding) by jdietrich on Saturday August 28, 2010 @01:04PM (#1641972)
Do you have any idea as to why it would be illegal? In my country it's not at all unusual to see a product in a supermarket being sold at a discount price in a display at the front of the store, but at the usual price on the usual shelf.
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Re:Double your price (and no, I'm not kidding) by thibaut_barrere on Saturday August 28, 2010 @02:35PM (#1642147)
In France if two prices appear somewhere, you'd pay the lowest on request I believe.

My gut feeling is that A/B pricing would be illegal because it's unfair: a part of the buyers have a discount the others don't even know about.

IANAL though :)

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Re:Double your price (and no, I'm not kidding) by jacquesm on Saturday August 28, 2010 @02:41PM (#1642160)
How about gas stations? They routinely charge different prices for the same product from the same store?
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Re:Double your price (and no, I'm not kidding) by thibaut_barrere on Saturday August 28, 2010 @04:08PM (#1642310)
Do you mean same brand or same physical store ?

I believe as long as it's a different physical store, it's probably possible to set a different price.

My impression (that would need more research) is that having two different prices for the same product at the same time inside the same physical store or on a website would be problematic; otherwise it's probably ok.

I think I really need to make more research - A/B pricing would definitely be interesting.

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Re:Double your price (and no, I'm not kidding) by GFischer on Monday August 30, 2010 @10:24AM (#1646240)
Not in my country they don't.

I'm not sure which is more common (fixed price across the country like here in Uruguay or Argentina, or store-by-store variation like the US/Canada)

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