Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy

pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• puck2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1/2 the time on eBay (for new stuff) it’s someone sending a gift package from Amazon and pocketing the difference.

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• jj4211@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ll say one problem is that for a number of items, there’s a technicality in the supply chain that exempts stuff from the price match. I don’t know about Microcenter, but have seen it in other contexts.

  For example “Oh, Amazon is selling a 120 pack, but we only carry 125 packs, so it’s not equivalent”. Or in the most egregious, “You have the price for model number 762LAZ, but we stock 762LWM”, and you search and find out those two model numbers are absolutely identical, but “AZ” models come in a box with an Amazon logo printed on it.

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• Buttflapper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Micro center does that? Because I asked them about that and they said they will only do it for certain items. That’s really strange honestly. I would also feel a little bit bad about it, because Amazon is clearly trying a loss leader strategy to mark down the product prices to ridiculous levels, I’m sure that would not help local small businesses if I can’t afford it, so I wouldn’t want to exploit that

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  • NRay7882@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ive had different stores & managers give me different policies. One told me the items needed to be shipped and sold from Amazon. Another told me it was only for items that weren’t on sale. Another told me I couldn’t price match a part that was in a bundle purchase. But yes, they respect price match to almost every major competitor.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Same with most brick and mortar retailers. When in doubt, ask, and they’ll probably say yes, they just need to confirm the price on their own device (so you’re not manipulating images or whatever on your phone).

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