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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I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I have yet to see a single item have a significant discount on prime day, it’s not even a sale.
thesohoriots@lemmy.world 1 month ago
burrito@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
i use another tracker, KEEPA.
meyotch@slrpnk.net 1 month 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.
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 1 month 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.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 month ago
i usually find the good deals randomly outside of any holidays, i mostly ignore prime deals.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 1 month ago
Not the stores don’t use this trick during sales… This is probably the only thing Amazon has in common with everyoen else…
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
www.Camelcamelcamel.com for all your Amazon price comp needs.
witten@lemmy.world 1 month ago
okr765@lemmy.okr765.com 1 month ago
What’s the source for this? Can’t seem to find details about this online.
ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 1 month 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?
witten@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 month 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).
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh no way
Spaniard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s not.