Just yesterday I discovered the prices change depending on whether or not I’m logged in. Supposedly this only happens when there are multiple sellers and Amazon favors the ones that honor prime… but I could not find the lower priced seller anywhere when logged in. Now I’m wondering if prime actually increases shipping costs because vendors just raise their overall prices to cover it… very, very close to dropping prime this year.
Comment on Amazon pricing makes no sense.
Binthinkin@kbin.social 5 months ago
Amazons pricing scheme is a bunch of bait and switch and price gouging tactics.
esc27@lemmy.world 5 months ago
JoeCoT@kbin.social 5 months ago
They're so insistent on getting people to do their Subscribe & Save stuff, with lots of discounts for making a subscription. And I take the discount and cancel the subscription as soon as it shows up. The entire point seems to be to get people to subscribe at the low price, and then jack the price up, sometimes double, when it starts recurring.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 months ago
I really wonder who is still buying things on amazon. I used it mainly to browse and then find the product somewhere else. But now it's an absolute shitshow. Clothing is probably the worst, everything is cheap fast fashion directly from china and they usually have like a 3 star rating where people are either shills or people who complain that it's worthless and the pictures look nothing like what it's sold. Aside from wish level crap, the "normal" items don't even seem to ve cheaper anymore than what it's sold in a store.
PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 5 months ago
Car parts. I can have a part in two days, it's the same part that the parts store carries, but 1/4 the price. Fuck them parts stores.
glomag@kbin.social 5 months ago
Rock Auto? Probably have to wait more than 2 days for your order to arrive though.