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thesohoriots@lemmy.world 8 months agoPrices 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.
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.
i usually find the good deals randomly outside of any holidays, i mostly ignore prime deals.
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.
i use another tracker, KEEPA.
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.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 8 months ago
Not the stores don’t use this trick during sales… This is probably the only thing Amazon has in common with everyoen else…