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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Ben on July 24, 2017, 09:08:04 PM
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I've suspected this for a while (maybe I'm naive and the rest of you knew it) but I know that I've seen, not just on Prime Day, but in Lightning Deals as well, the "retail price" higher than normal.
Years ago, I always expected a Lightning Deal to be a great price on something, offered for a limited time only. Nowadays, when I see a Lightning Deal I'm interested in, I take some time and research the pricing. Often it's only a couple of percent less expensive, and often the price is cheaper elsewhere.
As much as I love Amazon and all they offer, sometimes I think they're getting too big for their britches. I just saw the other day that the mere announcement of them applying for a patent to do what Blue Apron does (meal kit delivery) tanked the Blue Apron IPO. Amazon made their announcement just as the IPO came online. Now Blue Apron's best bet will likely be to let Amazon buy them for whatever Amazon offers.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/07/24/amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-vendor.html
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There's talk of anti-trust action against Amazon and IMHO it's overdue.
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Ben, I don't know if you have a Kohl's out there but they do the same thing with their sales.
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Gee, I thought it was pretty standard mercantile practice.
It's not right, but it's fairly common.
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They've gone downhill. Mostly due to third party sellers. Lots of counterfeits too, which is a much bigger problem than virtually anyone acknowledges.
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Gee, I thought it was pretty standard mercantile practice.
It's not right, but it's fairly common.
Just to be clear, I'm not talking about:
$50 retail
Your Amazon Price only $40!
I'm talking about:
Monday: Retail=$50/Amazon=$40
Tuesday Lightning Deal: Retail=$75/Amazon=$40/Lightning Deal=$37
Wednesday: Retail=$50/Amazon=$40
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So what else is new?
I was looking for new recliner and went to La-Z-Boy, which was having a 2 for 1 sale. The salesman told me if I only wanted 1, well, he could get it for me for half price.
When he walked away for a bit, I looked at the tag - and noticed there seemed to be a LOT of paper in the little pouch. Well, they had the stuff from the previous week's sale in it, and the MSRP was $500 less then - they'd jacked up the price a full $500 for their 2 for 1 sale!
When I was little, my Mom told me that furniture and appliance stores jacked up prices routinely right before a sale, and got some bad publicity because of it. I guess with a new generation of consumers, they're pulling that same cr@p again - even on line.
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Amazon prices do fluctuate, even separately from their "savings" trickery. In addition to comparing Amazon's price to other websites I also like to check out the price history at Amazon using camelcamelcamel (https://camelcamelcamel.com/)
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