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posted by CoolHand on Tuesday June 05 2018, @03:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the sticking-it-to-the-consumer dept.

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Car makers like Jaguar Land Rover and Peugeot have been accused of using special software to raise spare parts prices.

Source: https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/04/car-makers-used-software-to-raise-spare-parts-prices/

Ever had the nagging suspicion that your car's manufacturer was charging outrageous prices for parts simply because it could? Software might be to blame. Reuters has obtained documents from a lawsuit indicating that Jaguar Land Rover, Peugeot, Renault and other automakers have been using Accenture software (Partneo) that recommended price increases for spare parts based on "perceived value." If a brand badge or other component looked expensive, Partneo would suggest raising the price up to a level that drivers would still be willing to pay. It would even distinguish parts based on whether or not there was "pricing supervision" over certain parts (say, from insurance companies or focused publications) to avoid sparking an outcry.


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  • (Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:16AM (2 children)

    by suburbanitemediocrity (6844) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @01:16AM (#689093)

    You see similar trends in the US in regions...

    I've done half a dozen road trips across the US and have never seen anything remotely approaching conditions that I saw in St Petersberg, one of the 'wealthier' locations.

    I remember meals being catsup on spaghetti with margarine and bread. Yum. Even the poorest locations in the US, the Indian reservations, people have access to all kinds of food. Life expectancy was 55 years and drug abuse (alcoholism) was present everywhere.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday June 06 2018, @02:31AM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @02:31AM (#689113)

    True, and I said "trending in that direction" nowhere in the US was as poor as Germany east of the ex-wall appeared to be in 1990. Even in the poorest corners of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi, most roads are paved and 2 lanes: B5 - Federal Highway 5 from Hamburg to Berlin was one lane of cobblestones most of the way (they do have an "interstate-like" road too, but in the US the interstates are far from the only paved roads.) The whole week of riding through countryside, I saw one sad looking pony - no horses or other livestock except maybe the extremely rare chicken. Obviously it's better in the US, nobody is literally barred from leaving the state to find someplace with more opportunity, no matter how poor.

    However, if you get to know the poorer side of the poorer counties in the poorer states in the US, you will find families eating catsup on spaghetti with margarine and bread that's not nearly as good as the East German standard brown loaf was.... these families get SNAP (food stamps) from the government, but they have little access to transportation to get to the wonderful WalMart super-stores that everyone associates with the poor side of the US, and once they get there their SNAP doesn't give them access to all the food that's on the shelves. Far more common in the US are those in deep poverty who have nothing to do in life but eat cheap food and get fat. And drugs and alcohol are very present in the poor side of the US, especially when you hit the Indian reservations.

    It was definitely worse behind the former Iron curtain, worse by a lot, but those conditions are not absent in the US, just less pervasive.

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  • (Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Friday June 08 2018, @01:51PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 08 2018, @01:51PM (#690313) Homepage Journal

    Which St. Petersberg?