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Amazon raised Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoNot 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)
- cakedoggie 9y agoThis is newsworthy and should be called out every time, especially when it is such a trusted seller as Amazon.
- illegal_in_ca 9y agoSomeone got shot by police? Not newsworthy, happens all the time. Politicians taking bribes? Not newsworthy, been happening forever.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y agoI regret writing "not newsworthy" now. Although the point I made still stands: this is nothing new.
- mtgx 9y agoI still consider that attitude a bad one, because it detracts from the seriousness of the issue. When people say "this is not new" many of those who read that will go "well, I guess I shouldn't be that outraged about it" - even if they were super-outraged a minute ago. The only thing that changed is that they learned that "it's not new", which implies "they can't do anything about it anyway, so they should just settle down". I've seen a lot of these comments post-Snowden revelations, even though they were false, and that the mass-scale on which the NSA surveillance operated was indeed new - at least a decade new, but even newer if you consider how many people knew about it until then.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y ago"trusted seller"? What does that mean? What makes Amazon a "trusted seller", and why should we expect them to be different than any other seller?
- ballenf 9y agoIf you look at revenue and profit analysis from Amazon, it's clear that they are still customer focused. It's just that advertisers are now a bigger customer than the "real" customers. Amazon makes more money off of sponsored listings than selling the item sponsored. Kinda crazy.
- philbarr 9y agoDoes that imply that, overall, people are making less from selling things than it costs to advertise them?
- Clubber 9y agoThat's pretty standard for what I call the "scam economy" that is the US for the past 20 years. Watch any commercial.
- TallGuyShort 9y agoLest 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).
- throwaway91111 9y agoIt's pretty shocking even if you are used to it. I can't believe people pay for cable given how terrible of an experience it is.
- EADGBE 9y agoWeird. It's always on when I click the button. I pay for cable to enjoy baseball games, primarily, as there is no other way to watch "in-market" otherwise. For certain demographics, it's just the most sense. I mean, TV is TV. If I spend a little bit more to never have to deal with buffering, or a laggy UI, it's worth it to me. I think a lot of non-cord-cutters would agree. Re: cord cutting; I've tried, I really have.
- throwaway91111 9y agoI totally get the always on thing; especially for baseball. My point was more that ads are the driving force for me, and i am sure others, to abandon the platform; it feels a little like someone invading your home to yell at you if you're not used to it. But this applies to YouTube too; cable cutting is hardly a panacea to avoid intrusive ads.
- vermontdevil 9y agoaka these Labor Day, Black Friday, and other annual sales by your nearest retailer. Same old.
- j79 9y agoI saw a lot of comments saying "Prime Day" was really "Prime Marketing Day". Seems that was the case.
- tunetine 9y agoPrime Day is essentially a farce at this point, giving customers really great prices on only their own products like the Fire Tablet and Echo, which allow the customer to easily spend more on Amazon. I bet they would love it to be like Singles Day on Alibaba but all the marketing in the world can only help it along so fast.
- nerdshoe 9y agoCan confirm. I spotted a plane towing an Amazon banner over my city on Prime day.
- sokoloff 9y agoThere 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)
- enobrev 9y agoI 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-By-Amazon products. They were generally 3rd-party vendors.
- Larrikin 9y agoPretty 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.
- ballenf 9y agoI use "keepa" for inline price graphs on amazon pages. Camel is also great, just like having the graphs appear within each amazon page. https://keepa.com/#!addon https://keepa.com/#!addon
- gmac 9y agocamelcamelcamel 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.
- jvzr 9y agoGreat idea! Do you happen to have a Workflow to share? I'm heavily interested in getting this.
- freewizard 9y agoI feel the same based on price of items I watched. I'm curious any site like camelcamelcamel can help quantify this "scam" :)
- jchw 9y agoNot 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.
- anilshanbhag 9y agoTheir 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/B00FNVBS5C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1500950302&sr=8-1&keywords=Denali%2Bbike&th=1 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-White-Red/51838812 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.
- pcurve 9y agoWhenever 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.
- csours 9y agoIs 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?
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- beluis3d 9y agoUdemy does this as well for all of their products.
- bdcravens 9y agoIndeed. 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.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoHmmm. 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?
- FireBeyond 9y agoThere is an administrative code in my state that says that "furniture retailers may only have one 'closing down'/'final' sale per year"...
- taurath 9y agoIt'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.
- teach 9y agoAlthough your larger point may be right you're incorrect about the Yeti microphones. They are usually $129. https://camelcamelcamel.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Silver/product/B002VA464S https://camelcamelcamel.com/Blue-Yeti-USB-Microphone-Silver/... I bought one on sale for $100 last summer, and according to CamelCamelCamel, it was a good deal at the time.
- taurath 9y agoIt looks like the average price from 2011-2013 was at around $100 - maybe they've improved the model, but it seems like they've pegged it at $130 in mid-2014 but it appears it still regularly dips below $100. Add in 3rd party, it USED to be $100, but is now $129.
- accountyaccount 9y agodon't they always do that?
- JumpCrisscross 9y agoNote that producers can't contractually force independent retailers to obey certain prices under antitrust rules. Hence MSRPs being merely "suggested".
- bloaf 9y agoIt sounded to me like what the company objected to was Amazon claiming that the MSRP was higher than it actually was.
- grennis 9y agoGo to a brick and mortar jewelry store, everything is 100% off.
- dragonwriter 9y ago100% off is free, no matter what the base price is, so that's clearly not true. (Though, oddly, it's not uncommon online, with a “just pay (inflated) shipping and handling charge” proviso.)
- SwellJoe 9y agoI mean, if you go into a jewelry store with a gun and declare that everything is free you can get everything for 100% off (probably just the one time, though). Can't do that with jewelry on Amazon.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> I mean, if you go into a jewelry store with a gun and declare that everything is free you can get everything for 100% off (probably just the one time, though). Maybe not even that; they are obvious targets, and as such precautions are common. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-05-08/news/0105080275_1_jewelry-store-hostage-standoff-alarm http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2001-05-08/news/010508027... > Can't do that with jewelry on Amazon. You can try, once you learn where the fulfillment warehouse is.
- crimsonalucard 9y agoThe guy meant 100% of the new price off from the old price. It's a bit of a reverse temporal brain fart, but it is a valid statement. For some reason I just instinctively knew that this is what he meant.
- EADGBE 9y agoHey, any reason to downvote someone into oblivion is a cause worth fighting for. - Someone with too much time and too much karma.
- illegal_in_ca 9y agoEr, 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/02776.html http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/eic/site/cb-bc.nsf/eng/02...
- Sleeep 9y ago>Simpson says Amazon is breaking Section 5 (a) of the FTC Act that prohibits "unfair or deceptive acts or practices." >“It’s strategy called ‘Price-anchoring.’ It’s pretty common across the board. Now as far as it being against the law or breaking any rules or regulations, it could be considered false and deceptive marketing under the FTC Section 5,” Kelly adds. Many States call this practice out specifically as an unfair trade practice in their laws as well.
- 0xcde4c3db 9y agoI think this practice mostly falls under state-level regulations. The government of California in particular seems to have gone after a slew of major retailers (including Amazon) for similar practices. Thus making your username doubly appropriate, I guess. It's hard to follow the outcomes in the hits I'm seeing, though.
- anonemouse145 9y agoSort of. There are some rules. Note that this varies by state as well, federal law is probably nonexistent. An old state law which for all I know was repealed ages ago or whatever was that an item couldn't be marked as on sale for half the year or more. You couldn't say it was 40% off for 300 days out of 365, that sort of thing. The easy workaround was to make it 40% off for three months, then have it on no sale at all but mark the sale price as the original price for the next three months, and switch back and forth whenever you want. So long as the item wasn't always marked "on sale" you were fine. I don't think the US has ever had real evidence based tests like that, except in major class action suit which have largely ceased to exist thanks to mandatory arbitration clauses.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoThere were good deals on shoes. I bought shoes for $36.20 (New Balance) that retail for $51.
- SCAQTony 9y agoFOX 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
- lovich 9y agoConservatives can be looking to hurt Amazon and Amazon can be hurting consumers at the same time. I don't see how you can argue that lieing to consumers is not hurting them
- digitalzombie 9y agoYup. As much as I dislike RNC and Foxnews right now, it doesn't mean Amazon ain't being a bad company. FoxNews can be right once in a full moon.
- alexilliamson 9y agoSurprised that there isn't more of a discussion about how this link is from Fox news... and right after Trump tweets about Amazon.
- tscangussu 9y agoWhat is the problem about the link being from Fox News?
- alexilliamson 9y agoFox has a serious reputation for conservative bias
- alexilliamson 9y agoWhich I'm not saying is necessarily a problem... just interesting. Thought it would be more of a conversation point.
- joshwa 9y agoWhen I worked at a very large bricks/ecommerce retailer, the FTC had their eye on us for decades, so we had very complex pricing rules to make sure that we established "regular price" for a certain number of days before an item could be put on sale, and could only stay on sale for a certain percentage of on-sale days, then once "marked down" or "clearance" could never have the price raised again. I'm guessing the FTC will have their eye on Amazon pricing soon.
- AlexandrB 9y agoGiven the current political climate, it's more likely the FTC will be dismantled first. That is unless The Washington Post pisses off the POTUS enough.
- freshhawk 9y agoBack at an old startup when I had a lot of data from clothing retail websites, including historical prices and sale status, I ran some queries out of curiosity to look for this. I'm pretty cynical but I was still shocked at the number of results. This seems to be a completely normal practice. Price and being on "SALE" seemed to be optimized or A/B tested almost separately. And the "regular price" field on sale items was garbage data that correlated with nothing.
- SwellJoe 9y agoI'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 make/model; sure, it's a terrible item to sell online because it's tiny and cheap and shipping it with prime shipping probably costs as much as the item itself, but I thought they'd solved that problem with "add on" items. I mean, Amazon is still a very good customer experience, but when I'm buying something big I always comparison shop now. As recently as a couple years ago, I would just buy it. No thought to whether it might be cheaper elsewhere. The convenience of Prime, plus the reasonable confidence that the price would be competitive with everybody else, was enough to where I didn't bother comparison shopping. Obviously, Amazon isn't hurting. But, I can't help but think that having more of their longtime customers starting to comparison shop is a bad thing.
- illegal_in_ca 9y agoInteresting. I also find myself picking up tech from NewEgg more often than Amazon. And I recently ordered most of the supplies for a cocktail party I was having at Walmart and Bed Bad and Beyond. Amazon prices might beat local retail, but they are only sometimes competitive with other (often more specizlized) online retailers at this point. Also, at least for me, shipping New Egg, Walmart and BBAB was faster than Amazon. I don't have Prime however.
- SwellJoe 9y agoAnd, NewEgg also generally has excellent customer service, in my experience. So, it's not like I'm trading away convenience or confidence in the vendor. I've bought hundreds of more items at Amazon than NewEgg in the past several years, but I'd bet my gross dollar spend is similar at NewEgg because I've bought a half dozen servers and computers.
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- isubkhankulov 9y agoAmazon created a second black friday. I'm impressed by Jeff Bezos!
- mtgx 9y agoAnd they both offer fake discounts, too! The attention to detail in the replication of Black Friday is amazing!
- nodesocket 9y agoI bought a Brother laser printer with toner for $80 shipped in two days. Happy Amazon consumer here. You'll have to rip Prime out of my cold dead hands.
- EADGBE 9y agoAgreed. People are just complaining to complain. It's also kinda cool right now to hate Amazon. It's gotten too big, ya know. They're evil, lol.
- cavisne 9y agoWirecutter found an improvement over last year (0.54% of deals good value vs 0.008%). https://twitter.com/wirecutter/status/884900863218769920 https://twitter.com/wirecutter/status/884900863218769920 Will have to wait for their full write up but there genuinely were a lot of quality items for the lowest price ever.
- mtgx 9y ago0.008%? Wow. I almost wonder if they went through the legal department and asked them "how small can we make our discounts before it becomes illegal to claim they are discounts?" Apparently, that small.
- robryan 9y agoI suspect RRP/ MSRP have nearly always been useless. Comparison is the only way to get a true sense of what a regular market price is for something. Too often I will see something on a 50%+ off sale which might just be matching the market or actually 5-10% off where the rest of the market is at. After all, why would a retailer ever discount more than 10-20% off what everyone else is charging, outside of a clearance?
- 1024core 9y agoI use Google Shopping ( http://shopping.google.com/ http://shopping.google.com/ ) to compare prices. We saved over $300 on a King-sized bed when we wanted to upsize our bed.
- kbenson 9y agoSo, 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."
- ZoFreX 9y ago> just like every other store This is illegal in many countries, so waving it off as "everyone does it" is not only morally weak, but factually inaccurate.
- adjkant 9y agoKeepa is a great extension for price tracking on Amazon directly embedded into the page. https://keepa.com/ https://keepa.com/
- dimitar9909 9y agothis post will be downvoted soon by amazon pr and will disappear from front page by tmr morning. Happened multiple times.
- losteverything 9y agoArticle 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
- kogepathic 9y ago> 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.asp http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....
- cronjobber 9y agoFrom the article: "It’s not like they’re bumping it by a buck and making a little bit more money. They are really tanking sales and it kind of has a ripple effect to us, being a small company trying to do demand planning" The relevant Econ 101 buzzword isn't "supply and demand," it's "agency problem". Amazon is "tanking sales" unilaterally, while the supplier manages stock on assumptions of higher sales at the regular, lower price point.
- didibus 9y agoFor some reason, I can't take this seriously coming from fox news. They seem to be having an agenda with the current president, and Amazon has been getting hit as a collateral for feuds against the Washington post. Either way, the article concludes with the vendor saying he think its just an issue with tweaking their algorithms, and not an actual tactic from Amazon. Is there any other source that claim the same?
- org3432 9y agoHow do you fact check Fox?
- EADGBE 9y agoHow do you fact check anyone?
- org3432 9y agoHow do you fact check Fox?
- wynemo 9y agohaha, this is similar to what JD do in China.
- snarfy 9y ago"Order within the next 5 hours and receive free next day shipping". Hmm. OK. click "Please review your order. $8.99 for next day shipping or free two day shipping." Uh, OK. 'Check two day shipping. Submit' "Your order has been placed. Delivery date - 5 days from now"
- bbarn 9y agoShipping with prime has gotten much less appealing lately. It used to be seeing that logo meant it was coming tomorrow, or maybe the next day - now it's almost useless, as even third party sellers can show up as prime shipping. Lots more "available if you spend 30 dollars" prime choices now too, where that 30 dollars has to be in similar tier prime level products. Trying to win free shipping as a paying prime member is now often a game of trying to be clever - the game they really, really want you to play. I'm growing more and more tired of it, but for now - the time saved going to places locally or site-hopping to find the best deal is still worth more to me, but "for now" means that it's basically under review - that game playing is really making me evaluate that convenience/cost balance..
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- ben174 9y agoThis happens so often to me. I'll be expecting a package one day and 8pm rolls around and I check the order status and it says 'expected delivery: tomorrow' - when I was sure the delivery was today at the time I placed the order. It makes me feel like I'm going crazy, but I'm sure there's some sort of bug during the checkout process which switches me back to two-day shipping after I've selected one-day.
- acuozzo 9y ago> I'll be expecting a package one day and 8pm rolls around and I check the order status and it says 'expected delivery: tomorrow' Is the carrier LaserShip? They're well known for lying in order to meet daily delivery numbers.
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- SeanDav 9y agoFor me, Amazon used to be synonymous with quality, convenience and peace of mind. That has now changed, it is now merely convenient and subject to increasing competition. This last year I cancelled my Amazon Prime and now using Amazon far less than I used to. Amazon has dropped the ball.
- post_break 9y agoOff topic but I just picked up those shoe deodorizers for $10 at the container store and they have actually knocked down the stench emanating from my hiking shoes.
- partiallypro 9y agoMy issue with Amazon lately isn't just the prices no longer being the lowest, it's that a big chunk of their products are counterfeits. I honestly have no idea how they haven't tamped down on that. If I shop at Wal-Mart, Target, Footlocker, etc, etc I know the products I buy aren't going to be fakes; no so with Amazon. I have started buying less stuff on there after a number of products have come back as fakes. I use Prime Video more than any other service now, but there's only maybe 2 shows I even care about on there.
- EADGBE 9y agoWhat kinds of things are you buying where counterfeits are a problem? Genuinely intrigued.
- SeanDav 9y agoCharging devices.
- acuozzo 9y agoAre those charging devices both shipped and sold by Amazon?
- pp19dd 9y agoEverything. Just like the root poster, I am disgusted by clusters of knockoffs and increasingly more weary of seeing them. Just about anything common you run across on Amazon is probably not original (is there such a thing as an uncommon product these days?) The worst part is that I can't get myself to trust any reviews - good or bad - which was my go-to for feeling assured about a purchase. A knockoff competitor may review or pay reviewers to ding someone else's version of the product, and boost their own, and they've created a scorched earth of uncertainty from this seller ecosystem. For example, if you look up can openers, you'll see a bunch of ones that look exactly alike but are labeled as different brands. They contain slightly altered stock photos, but almost certainly all are stemming from the same original product. Mixed reviews give you cautions for some products, but not for others that are identical. Does it stay sharp, or doesn't it? Does it fail after 10 uses, or doesn't it? Does it work with lipped cans or doesn't it? If you look carefully, you can probably guess in which order a product imitation was born in, based on the progressively more distorted JPEGs of the cover photo. Look for a wire brush and you'll see same photo of the same product, "manufactured" by different companies. Senkary, Sucool, Tekton, eBoot, ABN, and a few dozen seemingly randomized names. I think I don't care about wire brush manufacturing consistency as long as it doesn't arrive wrapped in 1/4 lb of plastic and foam, and dripping with machine oil (I chuckled when I got it). On the other hand, I do care whether a sprinkler head I get is actually pressure regulated and calibrated to 30 PSI, that the variable arc nozzle is built to spec and won't decompose in sunlight and clog rest of the irrigation system, and I do care whether a phone charger might burn my house down. Unless I order those three products directly from the known manufacturer, I won't trust that it's genuine.
- jedberg 9y agoMaybe I'm in the minority here but I don't have a problem with this. If they raise the price based on demand, and I still deem it a good price, then who was harmed here? Sure I paid more than I needed to but I still paid less than I felt it was worth to me.
- albeebe1 9y agoI can tell you that for the first year of Prime, my wife and I never thought twice about the price when buying items on Amazon compared to the price we would pay locally. It seemed as if just about everything was comparable in price so why not take advantage of the convenience of having it shipped to our door. Now i'm starting to question whether or not we're getting a good deal.
- ryandvm 9y agoI don't know if anyone was harmed per se - it's just a dick move. If you had a friend that had been trying to sell his car on Craigslist and manipulated the price right before offering to sell it to you "at a discount", I think you'd be pretty disappointed with your "friend". Sure, Amazon isn't your friend, but I think it's short-sighted when corporations engage in sociopathic behavior and are hostile to their customers. Especially when their business model is predicated on customer loyalty.
- mikeash 9y agoThey didn't raise the price based on demand. They raised the price so that they could "discount" it and make it look like a good deal when it wasn't. If a product is normally $10, and then it's sold as "discounted 50% for Prime Day, now only $10," that's fraudulent. If Amazon decides to charge more and people are willing to pay it, there's nothing wrong with that. The problem is when they lie to make people think they're getting more of a deal than they are.
- jedberg 9y agoBut that's not what they did. Their algorithms automatically raised those prices based on demand. The demand just happened to be driven by being part of prime day.
- camel_gopher 9y agoAmazon bumped the price of a $20 Britta water filter by $15 when I went to purchase it a second time. Odd how that can happen.
- awkwarddaturtle 9y agoA few years ago, the word on the street was that bezos agreed to boost prices to reward the longtime shareholders/hedge funds/etc. And as expected, the prices on amazon have noticeably increased and the shares are at all-time highs. Amazon is large enough now that they have a "captive market".