Re:Show HN: GeoTreat.com: Delight Website Visitors by Geoloc...
by acoyfellow on Saturday January 04, 2014 @08:56AM
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Some ideas I am working on (and considered implementing) to help with that "creep factor"/customer discrimination..
1) Pre filter using their IP so that people not in range would not see the geolocation request.
2) Instead of automatically opting in, I plan to allow the website owners to chose if they'd like a button widget they can customize. This way they can let users click a "75% Off Button" or something along those lines, THEN confirm their geo-location.
I love your WalMart example, thats exactly the sort of thing that could work.
Personally I hate any kind of "customer discrimination". On the one hand I never know if the "special deal" I'm being offered is in a good way or a bad way. On the other, even if I'm being "positively discriminated", is it unfair, and possibly at the expense of someone else less fortunate?
Best to just maintain a level playing field, IMHO, although I can see the benefit of offering local deals that can only be local. For example, your nearest walmart ordered too many strawberries, and they're now on 1/2 price offer. That kind of geo targeting makes sense.