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Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

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Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor

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Post by hueving »

skinnymuch wrote: post #93
wutthrow wrote: post #55

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Second this for most of my small and large purchases. Diabetes test strips and a kent bicycle were both the best price including walmart free shipping. (Throwaway because I don't support Dang's tyranny against postings that run counter to his forced narrative.)

What forced narrative? Genuinely curious. Is it Amazon is the best/something pro Amazon? That's the best I can glean from your passive aggressive hinting.

I'm guessing it's something like dang==liberal and liberals in the US generally hate Walmart.

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Post by kogepathic »

losteverything wrote: post #104

Article is worth reading. Imo the upping of price after demand increase is awful. Also, i do not think those addicted to Amazon care about these types of things. They keep ordering and ordering. Convenience is the name of their game

> Imo the upping of price after demand increase is awful.

What? This is economics 101 of supply and demand. When demand exceeds supply, the price will increase. [0]

Just look at the stupidity of video card prices recently if you want a concrete, non-sale example of why price increases when supply cannot meet demand.

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....

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Post by jvzr »

gmac wrote: post #117
enobrev wrote: post #13

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I second the recommendation for 3camels, and not just for Prime Day. I bought quite a bit on Prime Day - all of which I'd had in my cart / wish list for months and all of which were well below their actual price (per 3camels). I also saw quite a few products that were well above their normal prices, while showing as "80% off" because the prices were raised a week before. I didn't see anything that drastic from Sold-B…

camelcamelcamel is indeed a great resource. Also, you can set up a Workflow workflow on iOS to get a quick price history via the 'share' button from within the Amazon app.

Great idea! Do you happen to have a Workflow to share? I'm heavily interested in getting this.

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Post by voltagex_ »

SwellJoe wrote: post #115
didibus wrote: post #113

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So it appears in practice Amazon is cheaper, at least until local stores price match.

On some items, yes.

I'm worried / interested in what happens when Amazon starts in Australia. At the moment, I can get a limited selection of products delivered here in about a week and a half, often at a saving of 25-50% from the local price. Other things aren't even sold here - I think the last thing I encountered was trying to find a 4K HDMI switch - only available on Amazon US. I wonder whether my available selection will increase or decrease when Amazon "officially" starts here.

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Post by thinkmassive »

kelukelugames wrote: post #74
SwellJoe wrote: post #46

I've become more and more disillusioned by Amazon over the years. Prices are now almost never the best; I only buy from them when I need something quickly (and can't get it locally). NewEgg (nearly) always has better tech prices. Walmart often has better prices on everyday items and I can have it immediately. I just bought a pair of tweezers at my local grocery store for two bucks that was $6 on Amazon for the same m…

Is there an easy way to comparison shop on Amazon? I saw ads for chrome extensions but I don't know if they are good.

I've been happily using the Camelizer for years: https://camelcamelcamel.com/

You can visit the site and/or install a plugin.

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Post by threatofrain »

ballenf wrote: post #49
SwellJoe wrote: post #46

I've become more and more disillusioned by Amazon over the years. Prices are now almost never the best; I only buy from them when I need something quickly (and can't get it locally). NewEgg (nearly) always has better tech prices. Walmart often has better prices on everyday items and I can have it immediately. I just bought a pair of tweezers at my local grocery store for two bucks that was $6 on Amazon for the same m…

Over and over again I've realized just before or after buying an item from Amazon that I paid way too much. I have finally broken the ingrained habit of leaping before looking. That can't be good for Amazon if too many people do that. On another note, I am beyond tired of the craptacular deals that are >80% fly-by-night products with astroturf reviews. The gold box deals used to be a favorite bookmarked stop.

But where do you look? Everywhere else is ad-hoc market places that you'd have to know about, such as Newegg for tech.

But what's the Newegg of other stuff?

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Post by neverminder »

SwellJoe wrote: post #65
ballenf wrote: post #49

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Over and over again I've realized just before or after buying an item from Amazon that I paid way too much. I have finally broken the ingrained habit of leaping before looking. That can't be good for Amazon if too many people do that. On another note, I am beyond tired of the craptacular deals that are >80% fly-by-night products with astroturf reviews. The gold box deals used to be a favorite bookmarked stop.

This is another big one. Amazon is filled with garbage products. It can be very hard to tell what's quality, anymore, and the reviews aren't trustworthy the way they used to be. I used to read reviews on Amazon religiously even if I was buying somewhere else. That habit has kinda faded, though it's still one of the better sources of real world product knowledge.

> and the reviews aren't trustworthy the way they used to be

You can say that again. I recently bought a kitchen knife with Amazon Prime that had ~100 reviews, an average of 5 stars. It cost £33, so wasn't particularly cheap. Just after I bought it the seller sent me one of those nagging emails asking for a review which I ignored. A week after they sent me another email, a copy of the first one. By the time I've already used the knife and found out it wasn't very sharp (my >5 year old knife of a different brand was still sharper), so I thought "be careful what you ask for, 'cause you may get it" and gave them an honest 3 star review. Not even 2 hours later I get an email from their rep apologizing for a "faulty item" and offering either send me another one or issue a refund and I can keep the knife in both cases. I realized what was the catch, but opted for a refund and removed my review when they asked me on the next email (obviously). So now this knife is still sold on Amazon, with 100 reviews and counting, only one 4 star review and the rest of them 5 stars.

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Post by kbart »

lorenzhs wrote: post #106
guelo wrote: post #103

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Depends how much you value your time. At least at my local Ikea it is very difficult to get in and out in less than an hour even when I know exactly what I want.

Don't know about the US but here in Germany Ikea has an online store, too. Shipping for non-giant non-superheavy things is 3.90€ so pretty okay. They're not as fast as Amazon, though.

..or you can order online then go to shop and collect your order for free. It's usually the fastest method (except going to the shop and look for things yourself). I hate shopping so this is my preferred way of getting things locally.
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