Chess.com Regional Pricing: A Case Study
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- #profit-maximization
- Regional pricing adjusts product prices based on a country's purchasing power, taxes, and other factors to maximize global profits.
- Chess.com uses regional pricing for its premium memberships, with different prices for each country.
- Chess.com determines billing country via IP address, account activity, and fingerprinting to prevent price exploitation.
- A scraper was built to collect Chess.com's regional pricing data across 126 countries, revealing significant price disparities.
- Nigeria offers the cheapest Chess.com memberships, while Denmark, Luxembourg, and Iceland are the most expensive.
- Cross-border eligibility for Friends & Family plans is restricted to higher-priced regions to prevent abuse.