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Comment by abelr

Regarding your last point on feeling cheated, there are two aspects to it. Right now if you check the price of Slack with an indian IP, you will see $2.67 for the lower tier (6.67 for the US), Netflix will give wildly different prices per country [1], and Survey monkey gives me the same USD price in Euros. People expect to pay different prices in different countries.

The other aspect is to prevent a user from receiving different prices. To prevent that we do a few things. We remember the prices that were displayed to a user and can make sure an entire country gets the same prices during an experiment.

[1] https://www.comparitech.com/blog/vpn-privacy/countries-netfl...

parent abelr 5 years ago

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