Cub Driver wrote:
On 06 Oct 2004 09:38:08 GMT, (Teacherjh)
wrote:


it sure helps them infer
how much I might be willing to pay for something they are selling.


Are you saying that Amazon has different prices for different
customers? I doubt it.

I do applaud, however, your correct use of "infer"

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It's too much to say that the charge different prices for different
customers in general, but they have experimented with the idea. It
didn't go over well in their initial trials.

"Customers of Amazon.com, the behemoth e-commerce retailer, were
recently startled and quite upset when they learned that the online
mega-store was charging different customers different prices for the
same DVD movies.[1] Amazon, it appears, was engaging in a form of
“dynamic pricing” – an innovative pricing mechanism made possible by
recent advances in information technology."

Read more he
http://www.vjolt.net/vol6/issue2/v6i2-a11-Weiss.html

-Aviv