Since my library membership expired and they no longer accept readers from abroad I decided to subscribe to scribd because they have several audiobooks that I'm interested, I was surprised because I saw 4 different prices for the subscription.
The first one was 13,99 €, I though it weird because I didn’t remember having read anything about an increase in price so I checked and found that in the US the price is still 9,99 $US. I tried accessing trough scribd.com but it always changed to pt.scribd.com, so I used another browser, one where I had never opened scribd with and again same price, 13,99 €, tried another browser and this time it came at 11,99 € .
I went back to my usual browser and cleaned the history, cache and cookies and typed scribd.com, this time it opened and showed 9,99 €, ok this seems more like it, so I logged in since I already have an account and went to activate the subscription but the price was now 10,99 €.
I assumed the site checked my location, so I changed to my phone where I have VPN installed and set the country to the US, then I opened the app, logged in and the price shown was 10,99 €, I went to check the preferences, there is none for location but I changed my preferred language to English, closed the app and opened it again, it briefly shows the price at 9,99 $US but it quickly changes to 10,99 € again.
I had scribd in the past, I paid the 9,99 $US subscription with a Portuguese bank account in euros and never had any issues, even with the bank commission it’s cheaper to pay in US $ than in euros.
Anyone noticed something similar?