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Old Jul 28, 2015, 8:58 pm
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Alamo LAX: ~$350 for 10 days yesterday. Today, >$650?!
why?!

what happened? was yesterday's pricing erroneous?

this is insane.
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Old Jul 28, 2015, 9:57 pm
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Originally Posted by njfastlife
why?!

what happened? was yesterday's pricing erroneous?

this is insane.

No, it is called dynamic pricing. It can even be triggered by you looking at the deal many times in a short period of time.
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Old Jul 29, 2015, 6:38 am
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No, it is called dynamic pricing. It can even be triggered by you looking at the deal many times in a short period of time.
i did look at the deals ~5 times but i since cleared cache and even tried on a different device.

still getting the same inflated price.

how could the price literally double in a day? i was getting ~$24/day for a Premium car out of LAX.

ugh.
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Old Jul 29, 2015, 7:02 am
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Book it now (assuming it's not prepaid), and put the reservation into autoslash, in case the price drops.
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Old Jul 29, 2015, 8:20 am
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Originally Posted by njfastlife
i did look at the deals ~5 times but i since cleared cache and even tried on a different device.

still getting the same inflated price.

how could the price literally double in a day? i was getting ~$24/day for a Premium car out of LAX.

ugh.
They don't care about your cache. Once dynamic pricing is triggered, it is triggered for everyone.
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Old Jul 29, 2015, 9:06 am
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They don't care about your cache. Once dynamic pricing is triggered, it is triggered for everyone.
really? interesting. had no idea.

so any chance it will go down again before the trip (August 8th)?
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Old Jul 29, 2015, 6:19 pm
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Originally Posted by njfastlife
really? interesting. had no idea.

so any chance it will go down again before the trip (August 8th)?
not much, maybe the day before (August 7th)
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