Amazon Pricing

Re: Amazon Pricing - LOL

Barry Irby

Obviously it's a mistake.

Wonder if it's just a stupid mistake or if they meant to price them 100/1000/3000, etc.?

Re: Amazon Pricing

John K Jordan

Many of these prices are determined by algorithms on a computer somewhere.

I once bought a $250 dial test indicator for $47. Ten minutes later the algorithm changed the price back to it's original.

See a good price, buy it. Want to wait to see if the price changes, fire up camelcamelcamel.com, past the Amazon url for the item in the field, set a threshold price, and sign up for a notification. I've bought a lot of things like this.

Before you buy, checking the camelcamelcamel site is good to see if the current price is good, bad, or about average. The provide a price history graph.

Good to know . . .

Re: Amazon Pricing

John McGaw

Pretty simple explanation if you read the very fine print: The first item is being sold directly from Amazon. The other three with the insane pricing are being sold by a private vendor doing business through Amazon. In this case the private vendor is something called "MyAmzShop" and they are free to set whatever prices they wish and hope that the fish bite.

I buy a lot of stuff from Amazon for sake of convenience but I always check carefully who is doing the selling and how many different ways/places the same product is listed and what the total price including shipping is before doing anything.

Suspected as much...

John in NM

Though I never got a deal that good

Latest "deal" I got was a bull float kit with carrier for under $200 (Name brand too, not a Harbor Freight class tool). In a week it was closer to $300 again.

I kinda suspected that some algorithm was trying to tempt me based on my searches for concrete tools. No idea why it could work well for them, unless their profit margins are tiny, even on 3rd party sales like that one. Come to think of it, the 3rd party needs a tiny margin too. I wouldn't guess that the loss leader concept would work for online sales models, but then I use concrete floats, so I don't know a lot about sales models

Come to think of it, another time I got 3 small Durham boxes for under $20. That was a good deal