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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 johnm1019 »

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…

If you really want to save money on household type items, go shopping in the 'market' area at your local IKEA store. Compare that with Amazon prices for pretty much everything and you'll be blown away by how cheap IKEA is.

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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

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Post by vlunkr »

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…

As a long time customer I'm sick of having Prime constantly shoved down my throat. I use amazon, I'm a paying customer, stop bothering me. I've been getting a lot of Walmart. The shipping is great, the prices are competitive, and as someone else said, the whole experience has improved drastically in the past few years. Of course they don't have quite the selection that Amazon does though.

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

anonemouse145 wrote: post #34
KekDemaga wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn't that be fraud?

Walmart often sells not-quite-same models of things. One, they often sell main items at below cost, because they make their money on accessories and groceries and whatnot before people check out. Computers and TVs are big ones. They will often take a big loss on a TV because they expect to sell DVDs and cables and such. Two, I didn't click this product but often they will have a submodel of a popular brand. Like an i…

It can cut the other way. I have a Best Buy only Lenovo laptop with a bigger MMC than the official model.

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Post by Baeocystin »

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 using the Honey extension on Amazon for the past few months. Averaged out, it has saved me a little under 10% of what I would have spent, so I am happy with it. At least this way some of that marketing money is coming back to me. It has also incidentally shown me just how often Prime items are jacked in price.

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Post by Larrikin »

Baeocystin wrote: post #85
kelukelugames wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 using the Honey extension on Amazon for the past few months. Averaged out, it has saved me a little under 10% of what I would have spent, so I am happy with it. At least this way some of that marketing money is coming back to me. It has also incidentally shown me just how often Prime items are jacked in price.

Honey made Firefox extremely slow when I tried it out a few months ago. I was using PriceBlink but their latest update also slowed down Firefox considerably.

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Post by Faith_ »

cobookman wrote: post #78
kylehotchkiss wrote: post #58

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Gold box (and so much of prime day) seemed like warehouse spring cleaning days.

It actually reminded me of woot.com before they were bought by Amazon.

I just got paid $6784 working off my laptop this month. And if you think that's cool, my divorced friend has twin toddlers and made over $9k her first month. It feels so good making so much money when other people have to work for so much less. This is what I do, ===http://www.millionaireprofit.cf/

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Post by Baeocystin »

Larrikin wrote: post #86
Baeocystin wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using the Honey extension on Amazon for the past few months. Averaged out, it has saved me a little under 10% of what I would have spent, so I am happy with it. At least this way some of that marketing money is coming back to me. It has also incidentally shown me just how often Prime items are jacked in price.

Honey made Firefox extremely slow when I tried it out a few months ago. I was using PriceBlink but their latest update also slowed down Firefox considerably.

I can report that it is well-behaved in Chrome, at least.

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Post by kbenson »

So, just like every other store, before the sale, they jack up the prices to make the markdown look more extreme.

What, have people never shopped in Sears/Macys/Mervyns or any other department store since the beginning of time?

Seriously, the only response I can come up with to this news is "Well... duh."

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

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Post by alexilliamson »

SCAQTony wrote: post #32

FOX is fishing for how Amazon could be hurting consumers so as to get anti trust litigation going. It is not illegal to be a monopoly but if it is hurting consumers it is fair game. My opinion Amazon is NOT hurting consumers but rather Trump and the Republicans want to hurt it. YMMV

Surprised that there isn't more of a discussion about how this link is from Fox news... and right after Trump tweets about Amazon.
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