Off Topic Robbing basterds.

So i decided to revamp my little kitchen today...So went and bought 3 packs off tiles...Stated on the box 11 tiles, approx 1m2 square..That'll do.

Got home started to lay them out.....7....7 wtf?

Now i know 7x7 30cm times 30cm don't make a square metre.. It's about 1.6 ish..

So fookers are going back.

Same as when it comes to car insurance, i always do a check online for quotes...And thesame company comes up a **** lpad cheapers than what the send send you, and get all quirky on the phone whwn you question the ****s..

Same for flights etc..

So who's been tried to being ripped off?

 

Comparison sites often have algorithms that bump the price up when you come back and the view the same deal you have maybe viewed earlier, as they know if you’ve come back you’ve shopped around and want to buy, so they inflate the price.

So, also use a different device if you go back to order.

 

****ing cheeky that. Same with flights, if you keep going back and looking at the same flights they go up in price.

 

but don't you think robbing bastards? and **** off to somewhere else?

 

I thought that too, tested it and it's not true.

Think they gradually increase the price over time/seats sold. Nothing to do with one price for one person vs another.

 

Yeah whenever I book hotels or flights etc. I always look for what I want on my phone and then book it through the laptop.

 

So how can price compare sites give you one price, then send a massively different price to renew?

****s..

 

It’s just about standard on comparison sites mate. I just play the game and use a different device.

 

For things like car insurance I tend to see what the cheapest 3 on offer through a comparison site are and then go direct to them for a quote.

 

They do that as well, standard supply and demand, but the moving of prices based on your visit history is definitely a thing.

 

I'm bearing this in mind...may save my kicking off like last year, when the difference was nearly 200 quid, and i was fuming.

 

this is intersting mat, so the more you loo, the price will increase?

 

I think it depends on where you search for your flights. I always go direct to the airline as that price is based on seat availability.

 

Not on every retail site, but defo on most comparison sites.

I’d always thought it was odd when looking at flights etc the price would go up if I looked and then went back, sometimes within say half an hour.

Then I was driving somewhere one night and had a talk station on, and listened to a really dull consumer rights show, and they brought on a geeky expert, who spilled the beans on the algorithm trick. Cheeky ****s I thought, but clever like, so tried it out, and it’s defo right.

 

Not sure that’s strictly true either mate. As I’ve been offered different prices from budget carriers and then checked on a separate device and bingo back to price 1.

 

Trust me they don't, I've had access to dozens of different IPs/devices/webservers/etc... to test it and it's always the same price. Maybe they increase the prices for total amounts of views of all people looking at it, but not per person.

^^^^nerd

 

Yeah Skyscanner and Booking.com does that.

Insurance Comparison sites save your quotes and email them to you, so less likely to do that.

 

I've had an example recently, was looking to book a hotel and after having a look on 2/3 different occasions, I logged in on a different device and WiFi connection and got them fifty quid cheaper.

 

I just tested on the Ryanair website, wouldn't trust any of the dodgy last minute style ones.

 

I'm basing that on several flybe flights to London from down here. The price from their website is always stable and doesn't change depending on views. Can't speak for other carriers and I'm sure the practice is rife through the whole industry.

It's sneaky and it should be ****ed off 100%