Avoid Orbitz ping.
Of course, if they have money to way overpay for a computer, they can afford more.
Ridiculous. I have Apple everything, but I don’t spend money on motels anymore... I tow an Airstream trailer. LOL
You don’t understand.
When an Apple user rents a motel room, all the furniture is nailed to the floor and the sheets are stapled to the bed.
It looks very pretty and the furniture is arranged just perfectly, so they don’t mind paying the extra price.
However, when a PC user rents a motel room, he sometimes has to do the extra work of moving the chair and table around so he can watch tv just the way he wants and occasionally has to make his bed. This is why he gets a bit of a discount.
And Linux users? They get some boards and nails and get to work.
They probably spend more time coiffing their hair, selecting shirt color, and picking out shoes as well. Bunch of self-obsessed metrosexuals.
Flame away, fanboix.
I’ve run into similar situation several times with other websites such as Southwest and Newegg.
I’ve literally had the price of a ticket or an item go up as I refresh the browser. Obviously they mean to nudge the price up a little each time you go back to check on the price so as to get you to lock in. They don’t expect you to sit there and just refresh the browser time after time.
So I usually just use a clean browser in a virtual machine. Private browsing my work just as well as long as the browser is closed before visiting the website the next time.
Recenly Southwest had a killer price on a ticket from Orlando to New Hampshire but I had to buy it before midnight. I logged on too late and no matter what I tried it would not let me get the “pre-midnight” sale price that I saw earlier in the evening.
I have servers on the West Coast so I figured that I could probably get the deal if I logged in through them. Worked like a charm :-)
There is a sort of history for this. Long ago, cross-platform shareware authors found that their Mac users paid for the software far more than the Windows users. IIRC, one of them said even with the lopsided marketshares of the platforms (less than 10% Macs), he had more registered Mac users.
Mac users are just more willing to pay to get good stuff. It’s obvious, since that’s what they did when buying their computers.
Maybe that’s why I get good hotel prices from Orbitz when I use my Commodore 64.
Apple users will often pay more for better (or the perception of better) products. PC users will not.
Not a bad thing for either group, but it does open up niche markets targeting Apple users.
No kidding. That's because 93.5% of Mac users are spending other people's money.
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When a PC user gets a room, it’s full of bugs and viruses.