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The same seller often can have several copies of the same book.
They sold the lower price ones while your title selections languished in your shopping cart.
You were getting the next lower priced ones.
Nope. That wasn't the case.
Same seller, same two old-version books. Raised price night before Good Friday.
As I said: be careful and know the item's regular price before Good Friday, so you'll know if it's a good deal ON Good Friday.
I am mistaken about some things. This isn't one of 'em.
I wanted to buy one of those ultra-lightweight wallets at All-ett. They wanted $19.95 on their website and shipping is free as the wallet ways less than 1/2 oz.
However I have hundreds of dollars in Amazon gift certificates. The wallet is priced at $19.95 BUT they want $6.50 for shipping it to me.
Time and time again this year, I have found that you get a lot better deals going to the manufacturer of the goods than by shopping Amazon.
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It almost seems like they use some sort of computer algorithm to auto-adjust prices.
I shop on there a lot and notice the same items drifting up and down in price. The last time I purchased an item, I clicked my back button a few minutes later to go back and read more about it after I bought it, and the price adjust up like $50.00 higher than what I just bought it for. I have tried to use their scheduled automatic purchases for certain food and household items that I like to keep stocked, but I don't like checking all the time to make sure the prices I bought it for didn't go up before the automated sale goes through the next time. I wonder if their prices auto-adjust as supply vs demand changes.
High-volume sellers often have multiple copies of books, so your sellers might have had multiple copies with the lowest price bought up.
No, that wasn't the case. Old, unpopular version of book. Sellers (I had two "saved") had limited numbers of copies, like 2 or 3. They had newer versions of the book, probably, but I'm speaking of this old version.
One of those sellers still has one left. The price has gone back down, but not to hte pre-holiday level.
Prices frequently go up and down for a product (that exact item). Some products frequently go up or down by a few cents....it looks like they are automatically tied to an average price or another seller's price.
In this case, it was raising the price for the holidays.
It almost seems like they use some sort of computer algorithm to auto-adjust prices.
I shop on there a lot and notice the same items drifting up and down in price. The last time I purchased an item, I clicked my back button a few minutes later to go back and read more about it after I bought it, and the price adjust up like $50.00 higher than what I just bought it for. I have tried to use their scheduled automatic purchases for certain food and household items that I like to keep stocked, but I don't like checking all the time to make sure the prices I bought it for didn't go up before the automated sale goes through the next time. I wonder if their prices auto-adjust as supply vs demand changes.
I think some do. I've been "saving" items for years, while thinking about whether to buy something, and I get notified every time I access the cart, as to which items' prices have changed (these are always for the same seller; if that seller no longer has the item, I get notified of that - Amazon does not substitute a different seller for the one the buyer selected).
Anyway, almost every time I access my cart, items "saved" have changed in price, often only by a few cents. Up one day by 2 cents, down the next day by 1 cent, up the next day by 3 cents, and so on. It's like there's an auto-algorythm set to change price, linked to someone else's price, or an average price.
But I mentioned this one this time because it wasn't an algorythm. It was an actual tripling of the price of an item the day before Black Friday. So if someone didn't know the regular price, they wouldn't know that's a high price.
I'm still going to buy the book. The price has gone down, now. But I haven't gotten around to ordering it yet. I don't need it right now.
I think some do. I've been "saving" items for years, while thinking about whether to buy something, and I get notified every time I access the cart, as to which items' prices have changed (these are always for the same seller; if that seller no longer has the item, I get notified of that - Amazon does not substitute a different seller for the one the buyer selected).
Anyway, almost every time I access my cart, items "saved" have changed in price, often only by a few cents. Up one day by 2 cents, down the next day by 1 cent, up the next day by 3 cents, and so on. It's like there's an auto-algorythm set to change price, linked to someone else's price, or an average price.
But I mentioned this one this time because it wasn't an algorythm. It was an actual tripling of the price of an item the day before Black Friday. So if someone didn't know the regular price, they wouldn't know that's a high price.
I'm still going to buy the book. The price has gone down, now. But I haven't gotten around to ordering it yet. I don't need it right now.
There are 3rd party tools that an Amazon seller can use to automatically re-price books but most small sellers don't use it because there generally isn't a large fluctuation in the price of books There is a seller feature to 'match low price' but it doesn't do it automatically:
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