Is This Right or Am I Imagining It??

[JollyFrog]

I'm sure this is happening but DH says I'm imagining it,

We've been looking at holidays online for the spring. We are abit indecisive and keep going back to the same ones, but I've noticed that the more we look, the prices increase. Is this a thing? Do prices go up the more you look??

YANBU. Disable cookies and clear your history.

Yes, the websites use cookies to track to what youve viewed and adjust the price accordingly. Delete your cookies etc before you book, this might help.

Airline websites do this, maybe holiday sites do too. They "remember" your search. Something to do with Cookies I think, so if you clear your Cookies it might help. Or use a different pc/laptop to book

Yanbu. This is what they do. Delete Cookies.

WOW, never knew they did this...

See, I knew I was right!!

So, can you use a different PC in the same house or not?

If you are using chrome you can use an incognito tab which has do cookies saved.

How did I not know this!?!

We had this in the last few weeks. I deleted cookies but the higher prices still came up. I even went to the travel agent and they said that the prices start low and go up nearer the holiday date, with prices dropping again at the last minute.

It's worse than that, they also monitor the number of searches on that holiday/trip. The more searches the more the holiday goes up. Clearing your cookies will help, but stop looking at it!

It's a flippin ripoff in it?!!

Some of them do it on IP as well, so using different pcs in the same house won't work.

They're very cunning!

The best thing is to run searches once and put the figures in a spreadsheet, work out what you want to do and what you can afford and then make a booking.

If you're booking flights and acc separately skyscanner has a subscribe option for flights which will email you when prices increase and decrease.

What web site are you looking at?
I've had the reverse on the Thomas Cook website. Usually I pay about £750 for my week in Egypt at the beginning of April. I was looking for a few weeks earlier, so would have been cheaper anyway, but over the course of a weekend the price for my hotel dropped from £477 to £397. Every time I thought it couldn't get any cheaper and went back to book it, it was cheaper.
But in the end the dates didn't work out anyway....

Yes, we quickly realised this when searching holidays. We are going with friends so we searched on my pc but booked on a friend's.

Cumber only up to a point: although it turn off cookies, it warns you the websites you visit still know you have visited them. So it still counts as a visit, making your holiday seem more popular.

YANBU
I saved well over a thousand pounds on some flights by using incognito browsing

I save hundreds of pounds on my car insurance every year with incognito browsing

I save 25% on my house insurance the same way

cookies are the demon of getting a goos price for things

ALWAYS use incognito browsing when getting to the paying stage for anything with a variable price.

I know I'm being thick, but what's incognito browsing?

oooh... I just tried the incognito thing and the holiday I was looking at has dropped by £70

which browser are you in?

If Google chrome go here
support.google.com/chrome/answer/95464?hl=en-GB

firefox and explorer both have "anonymous" settings

they are a godsend

ah, there's a catch. I just tried to go to the holiday website a second time and it won't let me open that page now.

I'm on safari at present, but guess I can switch to chrome have never liked it tho

I think there's a Safari version, search for private browsing.

nightsky
close all the way out of your browser and go back in - in needs be clear cookies

Im not actually sure to be fair you aren't potty. They may show you the same sort of holidays but there is no such thing as "putting a price up" for a specific user.