Apparently, if you have visited Bing.com in the last several months, Butterfly Photo will quote you a higher price than what other customers see.
Excerpt from Article: Step 1: Use Bing to find pricing for a fairly popular product, the Canon Vixia HV40. Step 2: Expand the listing for Butterfly Photo. The store price is listed as $758 with 2% CashBack, giving a total price of $742.84. Step 3: Click through to Butterfly Photo, and verify Bing has the correct price. Yes, the prices matches. Step 4: Open a different web browser or clear your cookies from ButterflyPhoto.com in your current one. Go directly to their site and check the price. $699!
They intentionally jack up the price since they have to pay commission to microsoft/bing for the sale as you went through bing.
When you go to their site directly, they don't have to pay an outside company a commission when you make a purchase.
krnpimpsta
Member
posted: Nov. 25, 2009 @ 4:11p
Yeah.. but the thing is, it's even more devious than that. Even if you go to the site directly, if you have a Bing cookie in your temporary internet files folder, then they will quote you the higher price. Even opening a new browser window = higher price. The only way to get the normal price is to clear your cookies - or erase your Bing cookie.
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