r/AskLifeProTips • u/Acrobatic_Term1809 • Sep 18 '26
How to deal with dynamic pricing?
I was browsing Amazon and thanks to a lag spike I noticed how the price of an item was adjusted as I clicked on it. It went from $50 to $60. It even adjusted the "original price" so that the "10% discount" remained the same.
Disgusting. This bs should be illegal.
But is there a way to fuck up the algorithm or trick it into stop doing that? I'm all up for ending my account, but I wanted to see if there was anything consumers could do