Trying to reserve a room for a business trip and optimizing on cost. One option: Monday through Saturday: $800 a night. Well that's ridiculous. Let me try Monday through Friday. Hotel's website: "Welcome business traveler! $1,200 a night." OK, well played, well played.
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"Ripping their eyeballs out" is a term of art on Wall Street, because "aggressively transactional price optimization" lacked a certain je ne sais quoi.
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To anyone who thinks that high frequency trading is hard, replace “hotel room” with “stock” and “business traveler” with “retail investor”
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Start with the ip address, and then time of day in local time zone, all sorts of cool data science tricks. But all that’s illegal depending on the jurisdiction you are in. Straight price discrimination usually isn’t ok, but doing it on a proxy (like checking out on Friday) is
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