Critics: FTC limits on personalized pricing may increase costs, kill discounts

Ars Technica@mastodon.social · 2026-08-22 00:39

Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/critics-ftc-limits-on-personalized-pricing-may-increase-costs-kill-discounts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Critics: FTC limits on personalized pricing may increase costs, kill discounts

Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong.

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Roderick@mastodon.social 2026-08-22 00:53

@arstechnica some Americans believe they faked the moon landings, so YMMV.

RDRush@mastodon.social 2026-08-22 09:14

@arstechnica I could just be reading stuff into the topic but "personalized pricing" seems like legalized price gouging. If so (and it probably is) unacceptable. Marketing demographic would have items moved to areas where said item(s) sell(s) in brick & mortar business where digital business can forego the overhead of relocation thus "personalized pricing" is garbage. Cash shop/loot box economics is a trash venue period.