This is the answer. I wanted to buy a pole saw and kept seeing different prices just throughout the day and later I noticed that it was from different sellers
Comment on YSK that Amazon has different prices for different people
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
Sure it's the same seller?? I'm pretty sure Amazon does not show different prices to different people. But the same product is often offered by several sellers, with different prices. And if for example one of you has Prime and fast shipping activated, it'll show the fastest option. Which might be more expensive.
IamAnonymous@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
chaospatterns@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah there’s a few reasons why the offer that wins the buy box (the term for which merchants offer is shown to the customer prominently) and is complex, but I wouldn’t consider it particularly sinister or designed to mislead. If one person has prime and the other doesn’t, it might weight more towards a prime offer which may be more expensive, a price from a merchant may have changed, or gone out of stock.
cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Price tracking systems like Keepa and CamelCamelCamel wouldn’t work if they started doing this. I can verify that, when I get alerts, the price on Amazon is the same as the alert price.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
yeah and I’ve done a lot of chatting about amazon products online at reddit, forums, etc over the last 15 years or whatever and never once have heard of people getting two different prices on the same amazon link.
lunarul@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
There are definitely different prices when I’m logged in vs when I’m not. My wife sends me a links to products, and I usually open any link in incognito windows. Several times I was not seeing the same price as her. Opening the same link on my account would show the same price.
KillingAndKindess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Automatically applied coupons, and deals that don’t even require prime could potentially do this without setting the "base price. Unnsire if thats the case, but it would likely not be picked up third party price trackers.
Krauerking@lemy.lol 4 weeks ago
I do get different prices I have noticed from shared links but I also don’t have a prime account. The weirder part being that a lot of the time my prices seem lower without the account.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Or they would appear to work and would just be providing very wrong information