I posted an idea to Kernal I have been thinking about, but I am 1 upvote short for the idea to go public. Please upvote if you can. Also would love some feedback on the idea in general.
https://kern.al/idea/purchasing-power-parity-website-plugin-to-automatically-offer-discounts
Purchasing power parity is the idea of pricing items at a variable but equitable price for different people based on their geographic location. For example, an item priced at $100 USD would need to be priced at $50 USD for a person in Brazil for both people to be paying an equal price based on PPP.
Parity Panda is a website plugin that would automatically provide eligible visitors with a discount code based on the visitors geographic location and their region’s purchasing power parity rate. Because Parity Panda is a simple JavaScript plugin it can easily be added to most hosted website solutions such as WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, etc. Discount codes can automatically be generated for common payment solutions such as PayPal, Square, or Stripe, and users can always manually upload discount codes for any other provider.
Users would be able to set minimum and maximum discounts so as not to discount beyond profitability. Parity Panda will provide an eligible website visitor with the closest matching discount code without giving over.
This would be especially useful for people who sell digital goods where the margins can allow for steep discounts for people with less purchasing power.
If you're from a wealthier country, won't it feel like you are paying extra? Could you get around the higher price by using a VPN?
Someone from a wealthier country wouldn’t see a discount so they wouldn't know it was available. You could use a vpn to trigger it if you knew it was there, but there are excellent vpn databases that can be used to detect 90%+ of vpn users. It could always allow you to just not show a discount to a vpn user.