What’s the price? Internet companies are playing with charging different prices for the same thing depending on who you are. Is that a problem?

By Koen Smets. It deals with price discrimination. Charging different prices to different groups of customers based on their ability and willingness to pay (a discount) is price discrimination.

I did a recent post called Amazon offers a discount on Prime for lower-income shoppers-but is it just a form of price discrimination?