How is this legal?

Wednesday June 1, 2005 - 4:20PM EDT

I just came across this shocking article.

Amazon.com outraged some customers in September 2000 after one buyer deleted the electronic tags on his computer that identified him as a regular customer and noticed the price of a DVD changed from $26.24 to $22.74. The company said it was the result of a random price test and offered to refund buyers who paid the higher prices. - full article

Holy freaking shit. How in the hell can that be legal. It is like not having price tags on anything in a store and the salesman deciding how much he is going to charge you based on your look. This is done anyway, but it is not widepsread and there are standards that we are used to. Things are the same price regardless of who you are. That may not apply to everything all the time. But things like DVDs, come on.

In other news, I think I have a idea to sort of compromise on this work thing. I don't think I will take the full-time position but I think I can still do contract work for them offsite. It would be me more time actually doing stuff and not sitting in the office twiddling my thumbs so much. All while providing the freedom of not being in an office everyday. I'll run it by them tomorrow to see what they think. I want a higher rate though, but because I am bound to that consulting company it will be virtually impossible to get it. $25/hr is a joke for the work I am doing. This isn't unskilled BS work. It may be basic but you still have to have a pretty decent web-development technology knowledge to get stuff done. I find it easy and unchallenging but people get paid more for doing it. I don't know, I'll figure everything out tomorrow.