Bing Cashback Can Cost You Money

paltemalte writes "Microsoft and various retailers have teamed up to bring you cashback on purchases made via Bing's price comparison feature. There is a little snag, though — it seems that when you have a Bing cookie living in your browser, some retailers will quote you a higher price than if you come with no Bing cookie in your system."

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Disclaimer: TFA author works for a bing competitor

[Anonymous Coward]

I read the article; the author works for Bountii which also directs users to places to shop for things. What the article describes is one retailer specifically inflating prices of things when a user comes from Bing. That same retailer could just as easily do the same for links from the author's own site, Bountii. They even go as far to state "At Bountii, we do our best to make sure we always show the lowest available price at a store." It just seems a bit disingenuous to me I guess.

So 'ButterflyPhoto.com' is slime; thanks, got it.

That's for the fake transactions exploit.

[Valdrax]

You went to all that trouble to transcribe the PDF without reading the summaries noting that it had to do something else entirely? The takedown letter was for explaining a mechanism to post fake transactions to Bing Cashback, which could reasonably be described as telling people how to exploit Bing for money.

This is completely separate from telling people that merchants charge Bing customers more.