Re:A Google bot scrapes pricing info by adding items to carts
by thaumasiotes on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @03:26PM
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> Best Buy used to have "deals" on items that they "couldn't show you" until item was in cart. They may still be doing this. Best Buy's justification for it was that its agreements with manufacturers prevented it from displaying items below certain prices on their site. I'd never seen this elsewhere to know how pervasive these agreements were
This was also pretty common on Amazon.