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[hammock]

> Would it even hurt sales at all?

Of course it would. What is the consumer benefit derived from the collection of this data?

[Johnny555 → hammock]

Many consumers don't see their meta data as having any value to them so see giving it up as zero cost... Hence they don't care at all about tracking.

[ahakki → hammock]

In the given example the benefit is stated as lower prices.

[Etheryte → ahakki]

This example would only work if you had the same product in two different price ranges, e.g 350$ without tracking and 300$ with tracking or something similar.