Quickbooks charges more if you are a Mac user

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Simple experiment. Go to quickbooks.intuit.com/products. On a Mac:

Quickbooks Simple Start: $12.95 Quicbooks Online Essentials: $26.95 Quickbooks Online Plus:$39.95

On a Windows machine:

Quickbooks Simple Start : $6.95 Quicbooks Online Essentials : $9.95 Quickbooks Online Plus: $13.95

FWIW on Linux (Google Chrome stable) I get the $12.95 / $26.95 / $39.95 pricing.

But then if I open it in Incognito mode, I get the cheaper pricing. I'm thinking either they recently updated their pricing and the cache is clearing out, or they're doing multi-armed bandit price testing.

There was a story on Mac users being shown pricier hotels on Orbitz a while back:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230445860...

On my Mac using Google Chrome , I get : Quickbooks Simple Start: $12.95 Quickbooks Online Essentials: $26.95 Quickbooks Online Plus:$39.95

Using Safari , I get : Quickbooks Simple Start : $6.95 Quickbooks Online Essentials : $9.95 Quickbooks Online Plus: $13.95

Interesting. I'm on my mac and I see prices different from these.

Simple Start: 9.95 Essentials: 14.95 Plus: 24.95

Now when I view it from a windows laptop, the prices match what you have listed when viewing from your mac.

6.95 on Firefox Mac, 12.95 on Safari

Might just be A/B testing.

Yup, every time I clear the intuit.com cookies, I get different prices.

Interesting, price difference seems crazy for A/B. Chrome on Android (Nexus 7) gets the Mac pricing you listed.

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