if you learn anything from today's video it is to never buy a plane ticket
without using a VPN. so airlines don't really promote the fact that they use
dynamic pricing. now if you don't know what dynamic pricing is, it's basically,
if you arrive to a website, basically the price increases or decreases based on
the location that you are searching from. now there's a couple other factors as
well. but we won't get into those. but the one that has the biggest impact on
the price, is the location that you're searching from. so the one way that you
can go around this is to use a VPN. so basically I want to teach you how to
scam the scammers. let's go! so I'm going to go ahead and start searching using
kayak. now I'm not picking on kayak, because the reality is, virtually every
website in regards to flights is going to have dynamic pricing. so therefore I
could choose any website and the same thing will generally happen. but you can
see I have everything.. I have my VPN switch to the United Kingdom. I'm going
to go ahead and click on flights. it's going to be set to London. I'm going to
fly from London to.. let's say.. Key West. and I'm going to fly on a future date,
like maybe, November 1st. and it'll be a month long trip to the 30th. and we'll go
ahead and search. alright, so basically I'm going to switch this to the cheapest.
and it looks like we have a price of about 410 GBP. so,
410 GBP is about $514 USD
for the cheapest plane ticket. we're also going to look at seats, let
say, in business class. cool. so this one looks like the cheapest price is
about $1,961 GPB. so one, nine, six, one. and it looks like it equals
$2,460 USD. so now what I'm going to do is close everything out. I'm actually going
to.. I'm going to clear my browsing data. basically, some people argue that
clearing your browsing data can prevent the airlines from knowing where you've
been, so therefore, the price doesn't change...or they cannot increase or
decrease your price, or whatever. so there's a debate on this topic .I guess
I'm going on the cautious side and just deleting my search history. so therefore,
if they are tracking me, they have no option now. so anyway let's let's go back
to kayak. before I do that, I want to switch my VPN to the United States. and
notice I'm switching it to the area that is closest to my destination, which is
the Florida Keys. so now let's go to kayak, again. click on flights.
going from London... to... where? Key West.
Key West. and then we're going to pick the same date, which was November 1st
through the 30th. We're going to click on the cheapest. and it looks like the cheapest
flight is about $531 USD. and now we're going to actually look at business
class as well. the cheapest flight available for me right now is
$2,591 USD. so when I used the United... the
VPN in the United Kingdom, for business class, it turned out the price was
$ 2,459 USD. and this shows $2,591 USD
so we have two, five, nine, one, minus two, five, or two, four, six ,zero.
two, four, six, zero, equals.. so $131 USD. so in this particular scenario, it's
actually cheaper if an American was in the United States and turned their VPN
on to a United Kingdom server and it would have given them this price rather
than this price. and so it would save you 131 dollars by literally clicking a
button, which is amazing. and if we look at this instance $514 USD
for plane ticket in general class with the United Kingdom IP
address. so 531 - 514 is about $17. so you'd save about $17 USD
by, again, simply clicking a button before you bought a plane ticket.
so pretty cool, right? you just save $17 on a regular economy flight or $131
if you chose a business class flight. for hours last night and this
morning, I searched so many flights all of the world using countless VPN
addresses in different countries. and basically I found out that there's no
magic IP address or no magic country. for example you cannot just turn the VPN to
'this' server in 'this' country and then you get the best price. unfortunately, that's
not how it works. if it did, everybody would know about it and then the airline
would change. you have to keep clicking and you have to keep switching your IP
address to trick the system. and in this particular scenario, it looks like if you
are in the United States and you switch your IP address to the United Kingdom,
you win. if I continued to search and search in this particular video, I may
have been able to find a different IP address that yielded a better price. I
just wanted to give you a quick example. the prices that I saved today in this
particular video is quite normal. this is about the normal savings. can you save
more than what I showed you today? hell yes! both last night and this
morning, I saved over $1,000 USD, per ticket, when I was using different IP
addresses from around the world. the reality is is that IP addresses
absolutely change the price of the ticket. you just need to keep clicking in
order to find one that really shows a good price. another side note that I have
to tell you, is basically, if you're looking for one specific ticket and then
you change your IP address to look at that same exact flight, sometimes the
price does not change. okay sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't. but I want to
tell you, you need to look at the bigger picture. the bigger picture is that there
were so many flights that I searched on this IP address and then when I used it
different IP address with a VPN, those lights from
the initial search did not appear. you could not find them! it doesn't matter
how far I scrolled down they were not available to be bought using this
different IP address. and so this really tells you that the whole algorithm is
changed based on where you're searching from. some countries get these prices,
some countries get these prices. some countries get these flights, some
countries get these flights. now the majority of them were available on both.
but over and over again, I seen flights that were here, but we're
not here. so this leads me to believe that there's a lot going on behind the
scenes. airline companies are telling the flight metasearch engines to prevent
certain countries from gaining access to certain flights. if there's a reason for
this, I'm not sure. but basically, if you follow the money you probably find the
answers. my best guess is that it has to do with commission. yeah? the airline does
or does not want to pay a certain amount of commission to this particular
metasearch engine company. and it just gets weird behind the scenes. so that's
basically all I know about that. the algorithm changes in addition to the
price that changes. now there are free VPNs out there that you can use. do I
recommend them? no! ok stay away from these! for a couple different reasons.
mainly security. number one, there's small little VPN companies companies that are
for free basically. and when you use them sometimes you just get bombarded with
ads. other times, the encryption is not very strong. or this... these people can
actually type in the key to gain access to what you are searching on the
internet because no one controls them. they're not controlled by anyone. it
could be some guy in his basement and just watches everybody's Internet
traffic. it's really weird. stay away from free VPNs. but the bigger picture is
that if you use a free VPN, remember, you're going to be checking out
soon, right? you're going to be using sensitive information. your name, your
address, and your credit card information. do you really want to be using a free
VPN when someone can actually break into your encrypted traffic and gain access
to all your confidential information? no! stay away from these companies like the
plague. you need a company whose rock-solid. so, to use the company that
I've been using for a long time, and actually used in this particular video,
go to SoloTravel365.com/vpn . it'll actually forward you to their page
so you can see what they're all about. and actually this company reached out to
me and told me that if you, at the checkout ,type in EdgesOfEarth, which is
the name of this YouTube channel, as the discount code, you'll actually get an 83%
discount and an additional month for free. so it's a really cool deal as you
can see the VPN literally pays for itself when you're buying plane tickets.
but it's not just about plane tickets there are so many websites that try to
charge you more based on where you're from. it's all about shopping. it doesn't
matter if you're buying a product or a service. if you're shopping on the
Internet, most likely, the price is going to be
dynamic. meaning you're going to pay more. so anyway hopefully this video helps.
hopefully you can save some money. and if you used it, and you saved money, whether
it's next week or years from now when you're watching this video, comment below.
I'm very curious to see how much everybody has saved on what plane ticket
they bought. so anyway thank you all for watching. remember, your time is running
out, start living! or in this case, start
flying. take care.