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by walrus01·10y ago·view on hn ↗
> I wouldn't be in the least surprised if companies will use your previous buying behavior to give you a custom price.

Amazon already does this for a lot of items based on your account, cookies, user agent and previous buying history. Try pulling up a few items and having a few friends or colleagues also search for and add the same items to their cart. Even with the same shipping zip code (shipped to same office during work hours), prices will differ.

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This is not true. Amazon will change their price throughout the day on some items, but pricing is not customized to the buyer. Perhaps you were looking at different times, or from different sellers, or one was a prime account (which changes shipping prices and can change which seller wins the buy box), etc.

I've looked into several claims of Amazon doing this and none turned out to be true.