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Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by everdev on Thursday December 20, 2018 @02:20AM (#18723076)
The latter is a true hypothetical as US law prevents charging different rates to different users for the exact same product/service.
Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by btgeekboy on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:37AM (#18723344)
It does? There's quite a few counterexamples to that, such as airline fares, cars, etc.
Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by everdev on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:48AM (#18725871)
The example above is Facebook charging a single person $1k/year while not charging other people. That's called price discrimination: https://econsultancy.com/what-is-price-discrimination-and-is...

It would be a slam dunk lawsuit.

You can still offer discounts (airline tickets, Adobe, etc.) or negotiate pricing (cars, etc.) legally.

But, it is illegal to isolate someone and charge them more without justification as in OC's example.

So yes, Facebook charging a single person $1k/year is a true hypothetical. It couldn't happen legally in the US.

Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by isostatic on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:48AM (#18723853)
Different customers get different discounts on all sorts of goods and services, reflecting the various importance of the customer, difficulty of dealing with them, etc. We get an x% discount off list on Cisco network kit, I assume that others get y% or z%.
Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by everdev on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:53AM (#18725921)
Yes, but it matters who gets those discounts. If you took a prior action to earn the discount no problem. If it's assigned randomly, no problem.

If Costco charges $1k for a bagel and gives it away to everyone for free except insists on you paying, that's a problem. You're not allowed to isolate discounts based on race, gender, etc. So Costco would have to have a pretty creative reason for making you pay and no one else. It wouldn't hold up in court and it would be price discrimination.

Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by owens99 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:12AM (#18723466)
Can you show evidence of this? What about airline tickets?
Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by TimCinel on Thursday December 20, 2018 @05:16AM (#18723740)
No it doesn't.
Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by everdev on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:41AM (#18725798)
Re:Estimating Value of Facebook by Paying Users to Stop Usin... by solarkraft on Thursday December 20, 2018 @07:26AM (#18724310)
Then Adobe has a huge legal problem.