When law student Goh Jia Jie was booking flight tickets with budget airline Scoot in May, he was surprised to find the fare increasing by $20 when he began keying in his credit card details to complete the Web purchase.
The 26-year-old went ahead with the transaction anyway, finding it too inconvenient to go through additional steps for offline payment.
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