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Re:Don't Force Users to Register Before They Can Buy (2015) by hunter2_ on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:44PM (#34099923)
With how laggy those sites are, I figured they are indeed pulling the price from the origin... Interesting that they'd have their own cache and still be so slow.
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Re:Don't Force Users to Register Before They Can Buy (2015) by bobwaycott on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:36PM (#34100928)
Can’t recall where I’ve heard it, but that lag is almost always artificial—meant to convince the user that time was spent finding a good deal.
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