Do Firefox Users Pay More For Car Loans?

RandyOo writes "Someone wrote in to The Consumerist to report an interesting discovery: while shopping online for a car loan, Capital One offered him different rates, depending on the browser he used! Firefox yielded the highest rate at 3.5%, Opera took second place with 3.1%, Safari was only 2.7%, and finally, Google's Chrome browser afforded him the best rate of all: 2.3%! A commenter on the article claims to have been previously employed by Capital One, and writes: If you model the risk and revenue of applicants, the type of browser shows up as a significant variable. Browsers do predict an account's performance to some degree, and it will affect the rates you will view. It isn't a marketing test. I was still a bit dubious, but at least one of her previous comments backs up her claims to have worked for a credit card company. Considering the outcry after it was discovered that Amazon was experimenting with variable pricing a few years back, it seems surprising that consumers would be punished (or rewarded), based solely on the browser they happen to be using at the time!"

Comments

Re:Oh, come on

[Anonymous Coward]

who's surfing the internet for gay porn

I work at IHOP you insensitive clod!

Fixed it for you.

Re:Oh, come on

[westlake]

I would say IE is kind of like the Republican Party, it owns the upper and lower classes, but very little of the middle class.

The Republicans strength has always been in the middle class.

The Republican who cannot successfully project middle class values loses - big time. cf. Meg Whitman.