Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
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Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#2That's pretty standard for what I call the "scam economy" that is the US for the past 20 years. Watch any commercial.
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#3aka these Labor Day, Black Friday, and other annual sales by your nearest retailer. Same old.
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#4I saw a lot of comments saying "Prime Day" was really "Prime Marketing Day". Seems that was the case.
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#5There 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)
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#6I feel the same based on price of items I watched. I'm curious any site like camelcamelcamel can help quantify this "scam" :)
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#7Not 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, sellers stand to benefit much more overall.
Although it's never going to be perfectly accurate, I recommend anyone who shops Amazon for expensive stuff use a price tracking service, like CamelCamelCamel, to see exactly how good a deal on Amazon really is. Again, not perfect, but at least you can then get some context for what the price is currently showing up as.
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#8Udemy does this as well for all of their products.
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#9It's clear to any layperson willing to do research that they did so - I looked up several items on a few price history websites, and found that while they did have lower than normal prices, it was more like a 4% discount off the bottom instead of the 40% they claimed. The Yeti microphones seemed to be the absolute worst - they have never ever been $150, more like $90, and they were on sale for $85 or so.
Re: Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
#10That's pretty standard for what I call the "scam economy" that is the US for the past 20 years. Watch any commercial.
Lest anyone not take you seriously, I noticed this when I first immigrated to the US, and every time I've returned from a multi-week trip: the first time I see a TV again I'm just flabbergasted at how nasty the advertizing is. When you're not used to it, it just seems especially manipulative and very negative towards the competition compared to other the other countries I've spent time in (which primarily other countries heavily influenced by the UK).