The Price Is Watching You

How AI, Apps, Loyalty Programs, and Your Personal Data Can Change What You Pay-and How to Fight Back

von Julian Kincaid

254 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

What if the price on your screen isn't simply the price?

You check a flight. It changes when you return. A grocery app shows a "deal," but another shopper sees something different. A loyalty program promises savings while quietly collecting information about what you buy, when you shop, where you go, and what might persuade you to pay more.

Behind many everyday purchases is a growing system of algorithms, experiments, behavioral data, and digital profiles. Some price changes are ordinary. Others may be shaped by demand, timing, location, membership status, account history, or the device in your hand. The hardest part is knowing which is which.

In The Price Is Watching You, consumer-protection author Julian Kincaid pulls back the curtain on the hidden machinery influencing what shoppers see and pay. Written in clear, practical language, this book explains how dynamic pricing differs from personalized and surveillance-based pricing-and why that distinction matters.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

- Recognize the signals that may affect online and app-based prices- Compare logged-in, guest, mobile, desktop, and in-store offers- Understand what loyalty programs collect in exchange for discounts- Test suspicious price changes without jumping to conclusions- Reduce unnecessary data collection and shopping pressure- Document discrepancies with evidence that matters>This is not a book about paranoia. It is a guide to becoming harder to study, easier to inform, and less vulnerable to systems designed to learn how much you might tolerate.

Because in the new marketplace, the price may be watching you before you ever decide whether to buy.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175694650
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published