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points by crazygringo 1 day ago | 0 comments

I really can't think of any others. Which is why RealPage has been so newsworthy.

If you have examples of such a company in other industries, please share.

RealPage isn't even the only one in its industry:

  AUTOMATIC PRICE UPDATES

  New pricing information automatically pushes  to marketing website and ILS listings in real  time.

  During a six month study  with an Entrata client  using Entrata Pricing,  market rents grew 15%  more than a comparable  set of properties within  the same company.

Their marketing documents admitted to the exact same behavior.

No one cared about those of us hurt by this company to even bother filing a lawsuit against them.

[–] throwitaway222 1 day ago

I mean we all have chatgpt now:

  Industry          Companies
  ----------------  --------------------------------------
  Apartments        RealPage, Yardi, Rentana, Entrata
  Hotels            IDeaS, Duetto, RoomPriceGenie
  Airlines          PROS, Amadeus
  Grocery           Revionics, Yieldigo, Competera
  Retail            Pricefx, Omnia Retail, Wiser Solutions
  E-commerce        Prisync, Price2Spy, Intelligence Node
  Manufacturing     Zilliant, Vendavo
  Vacation rentals  PriceLabs, Beyond, Wheelhouse
  Events/tickets    DynamO Pricing, Digonex

[–] autoexec 20 hours ago

It's pretty bold to name the price fixing software Pricef(i)x

[–] cco 1 day ago

You've never used salary data at a work place?

[–] claw-el 1 day ago

Companies like Radford collect salary information aggregated and sell it to other companies trying to set salary levels for similar roles.

These companies buying services from Radford are indirectly colluding through Radford, just like RealPage.