Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon

I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  www.Camelcamelcamel.com for all your Amazon price comp needs.

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  • witten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Owned by Amazon, FYI.

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    • okr765@lemmy.okr765.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What’s the source for this? Can’t seem to find details about this online.

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      • witten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Oops I was wrong… My bad. Not sure where I got that from.

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    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I can’t seem to find evidence of that. All I see is they’re Amazon affiliates, which pretty much anybody can be.

      Do you have a source?

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      • witten@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Looks like I was wrong! Consider it a human hallucination.

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    • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not owned by Amazon, but there’s a big but.

      Their source of income is from Amazon affiliates link. Whenever you follow the price of a product, if you click on the links on their websites or in their emails, they will earn a commission from Amazon.

      Amazon recently started vetting their affiliates more. I’m 100% sure that camelcamelcamel now shows data in a way that doesn’t hurt Amazon (e.g. they won’t show sudden drops in prices, i.e. pricing mistakes) or even themselves (commissions are a percentage of the price paid by the user).

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    • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh no way

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      • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It’s not.

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• thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.

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  • burrito@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or sometimes they remove a 25% off coupon that usually shows all the time and for the “sale” they just reduce the price of the item to that same amount without and then remove the coupon from the page. It will then look like it has gone on sale from camelcamelcamel because it wasn’t accounting for the price after the coupon it was only showing the item price.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      i use another tracker, KEEPA.

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  • meyotch@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember at my first job in high school in a store on Main Street. We had a sidewalk sale with other business owners.

    My innocence was lost when my boss instructed me to place higher prices using our ordinary white stickers and then cover them with orange sales stickers at slightly higher prices.

    These dicks just do it at scale. Amazon is a tawdry crime organization. We all know it.

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  • FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.

    Gladly this practice is illegal in Finland at lest. Here companies having sales have to show the lowest price of that product within the last 30 days just for this very reason.

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  • gian@lemmy.grys.it ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not the stores don’t use this trick during sales… This is probably the only thing Amazon has in common with everyoen else…

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i usually find the good deals randomly outside of any holidays, i mostly ignore prime deals.

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