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The free tool below runs entirely in this browser — no account, nothing stored or transmitted. Redact anything you would not want kept before you type it.
Open the companion tool →Why the request works even without a disclosure law
A company that answers truthfully gives you something to verify; a company that refuses gives you a dated refusal, which is itself useful to a regulator.
Keep the request narrow and answerable: which data categories, which process, and whether a person was involved.
The protocol
- Write down the purchase, price paid, date, and channel.
- Ask in writing which data categories were used to set the price you saw.
- Ask whether the price was set by an algorithm and whether it was individualised.
- Ask how to opt out of personalised pricing and what changes if you do.
- Keep the reply, or the lack of one, with the receipt.
What the tool does
Build a price-disclosure request It runs locally in this browser and sends nothing.
Limit first: This is a record-keeping and comparison aid, not legal or financial advice. It cannot prove that a price was personalised, and it does not know what a company's pricing model does internally.
Open the companion tool →Cost and free path
Cost: Free: one complete run in this browser, no account. Optional $4 one-time unlock allows unlimited runs of this tool on this browser. The free path and safety guidance never require payment.
Rule status (mixed route): Status, 2026-10-03: disclosure duties are state-level and uneven; the FTC's pricing guidance is the current federal reference, and state attorneys general have opened surveillance-pricing inquiries.
Automated decision this documents: undisclosed algorithmic price individualisation
Free path, in order (no cost):
- USA.gov's complaint finder to locate the right regulator for retail pricing
- Your state attorney general's consumer protection division
- FTC consumer alerts for the current legal position on personalised pricing
What this cannot do: It cannot prove that a price was personalised, and it does not know what a company's pricing model does internally.
Sources checked 2026-10-03 · source bank reviewed against the live pages listed in metadata.
One human next step
If the retailer refuses to answer and your state has a pricing-disclosure rule, file a complaint with your state attorney general; if not, send the same record to a consumer organisation tracking the practice.
Research log and safety checks
AI-assist path: not used for a verdict. This builder organises the reader's own documents and names an independent source; it does not infer authenticity, eligibility, or legal rights. §6.9/§6.10/§6.11 disclosed in the batch report; §6.12 status line carried in metadata as `status_line`.
§0.5 protection result: category is ai-pricing-transparency; crisis-adjacent: no; fear/urgency/scarcity toolkit used: no. The protective function is free and the paid feature is convenience only.