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Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account by Eddy_Viscosity2 on Sunday September 22, 2024 @07:37PM (#41621028)
The price adjustments due to coupons, rewards programs, and food stamps are all publicly available (transparent). No hidden algorthms. If the coupon says 10% off, then that's what you get. It's not maybe 10% off or maybe something else depending on a secret recipe like if the temperature is between x and y and you have a name that rhymes with Pobert or whatever else some AI has figured out.
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Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account by astrange on Sunday September 22, 2024 @07:49PM (#41621087)
The opacity is that people who don't have coupons generally don't know they exist. Coupons are a kind of price discrimination assuming that people with less time to coupon-hunt are willing to pay more.
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Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account by rootusrootus on Sunday September 22, 2024 @07:54PM (#41621116)
The coupons I get in the mail from Fred Meyer (a local Kroger subsidiary) are custom, printed for me based on my purchase history. I can’t guarantee they alter the discount for the same item based on the customer, but it seems logical.

Also, the coupons they print on the fly with the receipt could be custom priced for that specific customer, as well.

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Re:Uber charges more if you have credits in your account by c22 on Sunday September 22, 2024 @08:00PM (#41621144)
Sometimes I receive a coupon in the mail but my sister who has the same last name as me and lives in the same town does not. Whatever algorithm causes that is pretty opaque.
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