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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 pcurve »

anilshanbhag wrote: post #15
jchw wrote: post #7

Not only is this not new for traditional vendors, it's not even new for the internet. Scummy sellers on Steam do the same thing right before sales every single year. Oh well. At least some quite nice Anker stuff was actually on sale. You can never have enough USB chargers these days. Just like in the case of Steam, I'm more apt to believe it's sellers that are doing this than Amazon. While both stand to benefit, sell…

Their prices are not the lowest, just experienced this recently. Here is a bike i wanted to buy https://www.amazon.com/GMC-Denali-Large-63-5cm-Frame/dp/B00F... ($220) Ended up buying on walmart ($170) https://www.walmart.com/ip/25-700c-GMC-Denali-Men-s-Bike-Whi... So much for paying $99 to get prime. I have noticed of late that lot of items are cheaper on Walmart and they offer free 2 day shipping.

Whenever I need to buy things from Amazon, I always cross shop at Walmart. I've found them to be cheaper in many cases, and sometimes considerably, particularly when it comes to food related items.

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

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Post by csours »

anilshanbhag wrote: post #15
jchw wrote: post #7

Not only is this not new for traditional vendors, it's not even new for the internet. Scummy sellers on Steam do the same thing right before sales every single year. Oh well. At least some quite nice Anker stuff was actually on sale. You can never have enough USB chargers these days. Just like in the case of Steam, I'm more apt to believe it's sellers that are doing this than Amazon. While both stand to benefit, sell…

Their prices are not the lowest, just experienced this recently. Here is a bike i wanted to buy https://www.amazon.com/GMC-Denali-Large-63-5cm-Frame/dp/B00F... ($220) Ended up buying on walmart ($170) https://www.walmart.com/ip/25-700c-GMC-Denali-Men-s-Bike-Whi... So much for paying $99 to get prime. I have noticed of late that lot of items are cheaper on Walmart and they offer free 2 day shipping.

Is that actually the same bike? Walmart seems to sell things under the same name as other retailers, but with some 'cost reducing' features... at least they have in the past.

Also, I presume GMC doesn't actually make these, any idea who does?

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

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Post by bloaf »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #11

Note that producers can't contractually force independent retailers to obey certain prices under antitrust rules. Hence MSRPs being merely "suggested".

It sounded to me like what the company objected to was Amazon claiming that the MSRP was higher than it actually was.

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Post by illegal_in_ca »

Er, is this not illegal in the USA? It is in Canada:

The Act prohibits false or misleading representations to the public as to the ordinary selling price of a product, in any form whatsoever. Ordinary selling price is validated in one of two ways: either a substantial volume of the product was sold at that price or higher, within a reasonable amount of time (volume test); or the product was offered for sale, in good faith, for a substantial period of time at that price or a higher price (time test).[0]

[0] http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/02...

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

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Post by KekDemaga »

csours wrote: post #22
anilshanbhag wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their prices are not the lowest, just experienced this recently. Here is a bike i wanted to buy https://www.amazon.com/GMC-Denali-Large-63-5cm-Frame/dp/B00F... ($220) Ended up buying on walmart ($170) https://www.walmart.com/ip/25-700c-GMC-Denali-Men-s-Bike-Whi... So much for paying $99 to get prime. I have noticed of late that lot of items are cheaper on Walmart and they offer free 2 day shipping.

Is that actually the same bike? Walmart seems to sell things under the same name as other retailers, but with some 'cost reducing' features... at least they have in the past. Also, I presume GMC doesn't actually make these, any idea who does?

Wouldn't that be fraud?

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

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Post by thaumasiotes »

bdcravens wrote: post #17
beluis3d wrote: post #8

Udemy does this as well for all of their products.

Indeed. They pretty have an eternal "sale" for $10. Quick check: yep. $10. "Set Yourself Apart - Keep your competitive edge with courses for $10—ends 7/31!" Pretty sure by 8/3, there will be another sale for $10.

Hmmm. I seem to recall that Sears was sued for running "sales" more than six months out of the year, and lost. I feel like that would apply here?

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Post by cakedoggie »

em3rgent0rdr wrote: post #16

Not really newsworthy. This is one of the oldest tricks in the book. "Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it." -Publilius Syrus (1st century BC)

This is newsworthy and should be called out every time, especially when it is such a trusted seller as Amazon.

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

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Post by Larrikin »

enobrev wrote: post #13
sokoloff wrote: post #5

There were real deals on Amazon hardware devices (Echo, Fire, etc). Most everything else was "meh". camelcamelcamel.com is your friend to research how good of a deal it really is. (no affiliation, just a happy user)

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…

Pretty much anything I don't need immediately, I set an alert for with 20% of the lowest price in the past year and just wait. If it never gets that low I usually just forget about it, if it does get that low or even lower it usually the best deal I'm going to get online.

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

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Post by copperx »

KekDemaga wrote: post #25
csours wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that actually the same bike? Walmart seems to sell things under the same name as other retailers, but with some 'cost reducing' features... at least they have in the past. Also, I presume GMC doesn't actually make these, any idea who does?

Wouldn't that be fraud?

It would be fraud if it's the same model number, AFAIK.
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