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I assume many of you agree. Often after I placed something in my cart, the price went up. This happened both when the seller was Amazon or a third party seller. I wonder when the price would fall back if I removed it from my cart or if I don't order it for a long time?
Prices on Amazon fluctuate a lot. It has nothing to do with you putting an item in your cart. They're not raising the price for everyone just because Snowmountains put something in their cart.
You can check out camelcamelcamel.com and see the price changes of different items.
Whatever you place in your cart it's considered a pending purchase.
Price changes will be updated till you make the purchase. Some prices will go up, and some down. It's done automatically.
As a buyer, if you add something to your cart and let it sit there for a while, when you finally decide to buy it, you may find it unavailable/sold out/or discontinued.
There are a few sites like camel, wikibuy and honey are 2 I know that do searches when you are ready to buy to see prices available on those items.
I have found that prices really do change a lot on other sites such as in particular, wayfair. I have been looking at some furniture pieces for a while, and sometimes they are on sale for $300 for example, and the next day it is $500 ( all the time stating list price is $650 or so. Then of course when i decide I am ready to buy it is $550. needless to say, we are playing chicken and I guess if it drops again it will be in my cart. But seriously, their prices change all the time. I have done screenshots just so I can remember the product look and dimenstion etc and those show the prices. When I click on the link the price is often quite different.
I have heard though that if you remove the cookies, you might have a better chance of getting a good price as with "in the old days precovid" airline tickes!
I think all stores know when you have something in the cart though. I have in the past put things in my cart and then deliberately left them for a couple of days. Some of the time I’ll get an email a couple of days later saying “you left these things in your cart, here’s a coupon for 10% off”.
I think all stores know when you have something in the cart though. I have in the past put things in my cart and then deliberately left them for a couple of days. Some of the time I’ll get an email a couple of days later saying “you left these things in your cart, here’s a coupon for 10% off”.
Yes, I get emails all the time from Target telling me when something in my cart has gone on sale. And other stores have also sent me the "Oops, you've left something in your cart emails".
I've had Etsy sellers give me 10-20% off or free shipping codes when something has been left in my cart.
I'm not sure why people think the price goes up because something is in their cart. Or they have the site in browser history such as shopping airfare or hotels. Basic rule of salesmanship is you sweeten the deal and/or lower the price to close a sale when the buyer is interested but can't quite pull the trigger. If you were trying to sell something for $100 and you had a buyer on the fence and just about ready to buy it, would you raise the price on them? That's just giving them the perfect excuse to walk away.
I typically have a lot of things in my cart. When an item I had saved for later gets a significant price increase, I'm probably at least 10x more likely to just Delete it. A lot of times I will save items for comparison, say I want a printer so I have 3 or 4 printers that I'm trying to decide between. If one of them jumps in price, most likely it gets eliminated.
I know that more than once, I've done some circular searching for an item, and within the same hour I will come back to my choice to find the price has gone up. Up, never down. Oftentimes discounts or multiple offers disappear. I am not convinced it's completely random. (And, frankly, know too much about consumer AI systems to believe that, especially on Amazon.)
I assume many of you agree. Often after I placed something in my cart, the price went up. This happened both when the seller was Amazon or a third party seller. I wonder when the price would fall back if I removed it from my cart or if I don't order it for a long time?
The prices on most items go up/down often, sometimes daily. Sometimes a big difference, usually just a few cents.
I think it's on an algorythm...the prices change when it detects a lower price elsewhere on the internet, or higher price. Prices on WalMart do this, too, but to a lesser extent. They may also use number of sales made (popularity of product), or number of items left in stock. At WalMart, I noticed that prices tend to go up when there are almost no more items in stock.
Amazon and the other retailers do know what's in your cart, of course. It's right there, electronically. Because of the cookies on your pc, you may see ads for competing products when you are on different sites. For instance, if I put a rug in my cart on Amazon or WalMart or Overstock, when I am on another site for some other reason than shopping, I may see ads for that same rug at other retailers, or other rugs.
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