Another Amazon Prime Day scam post. The item on 'sale' was cheaper when I bought it last week.

If you have an idea of what you want before the sale starts and know how much the standard price is you can still be lucky and get a good deal. You just have to be careful not to get sucked in to a non deal.

For example, I was looking out for an Apple Watch. There is a good sale on them but they only have a limited set of body and strap combinations. I don’t want any of the straps on offer so it negates almost all of the discount as I’d be paying £50 for a strap that I wouldn’t use.

Amazon US doesn't do that, but they do show a "lowest price in 30 days" badge that is actually truthful (appears when the item is on sale and the sale price is the lowest in the last 30 days). Of course, there's some sellers that game it by increasing their prices over 30 days before Prime Day.

I don’t know if it’s a law here too in Canada, but Amazon.ca works the same. What sellers do to get around this just make a new listing for products at inflated rates so they can then discount them for “sales”, while simultaneously setting the regular listing to unavailable until the “sale” is over.

In the U.S. that’s a big “fuck you buddy, Ima get mine,” from congress.

I'm in Europe and have never seen this in my life, what I have seen is advice price which is another scam in itself.

On Germany's site it was rampant with crap like that that had it's price raised literally 3 days before the prime day

There is a law for that? never seen that. where can you see this information on amazon for example?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09P8BPPQW

Here's the product page. You can see how it's 46% off $119, but if you want, you can also buy it at $89 regular price. They're now not even increasing the price of the item, they're just claiming it's higher.

Amazon could use the average price over the last 3 months l, but they don't care.

Classic Kohl's strategy, not sure if they did it first, but its the first place I saw it used in early 2000s.

Furniture stores are infamous for that. They make a big deal of closing down for a day and marking every item in the store with a big discount, but what they don't tell you is they jack the price way up first before applying the discount.

Amazon started in may sending a massive email campaign to all affiliates with referral links reminding prime day, if an user buys something using the link, the affiliate (in this case your credit union) will get a 5% commission

I do this for every item. I did buy some stuff this prime day and one item was in reality $5 cheaper... not the $15 Amazon said. I also sometimes find target, Walmart or Microcenter(frys) has just a good a deal: and those stores actually let you return stuff and give you your money back

IME Amazon has worse prices on a lot of stuff lately. It's mostly just convenience at this point.

If you're into amazon electronics, that's the only time to buy because it's the only thing on sale. lol.

Yeah in this one, the discount is 40% down from $119, but the regular price below says it's $89

Yea, I don't assume anything is on sale until I've looked at camelcamelcamel.com. Even then, it doesn't get lightning deals, and some other random promotions, so it can be difficult to tell what an actual good price is.

Also they stole the product from a former 3rd party seller

INCONCEIVABLE!

Except that the GPU is taking it on the chin on sales anyways. Probably a week from now it'll be $1200 and they are just hoping to grab a few quick sales before the actual price drop

I guess you meant underwhelmed instead of understanding.

And well Idk I didn't need anything so not sure. Personally the only thing I got was the Microsoft 365 Family subscription for 1 year since it was half a price than the usual renewall... Although now that I think about it maybe I should have bought more years.

Every deal I was interested in I checked on camel camel camel. Everything was marked ~40% off but was really only like ~5-10% off. There were a few good deals, but they were in a sea of fake deals making it impossible to actually find them.

I mostly bought mundane stuff and I'm turn didn't leave disappointed. Disinfecting wipes, ibuprofen, etc.

Demand is through the roof so there is less excess inventory to try to move.

There are many such apps. Search for price trackers.

There is actually a browser extension that tracks prices. Damn I forgot which one it is.

Not only is such a thing not illegal, I found half a dozen in 2 seconds on Google.

Not illegal. Check out CamelCamelCamel.com

I've been using Keepa for this for years in Firefox.

Can this power be learned?

You ever think about how we fully embraced the consumer lifestyle. Every minute of our life is now just an ad. From podcasts to Mr. Beast to sports. Its packaged as entertainment and fun but its all created to make us feel like we need to go buy something. Look at how enraged bud lite made people. That only happens to people whose identity gets twisted with products. People were legitimately hurt by a can of beer.

The 90s was this last ditch anti corporate anti consumerism lifestyle that I don't think we'll ever see again. Sub cultures need individuals to get popular and spread the message. But the only way to get popular today is to endorse and hawk merchandise because all our mediums of communication are owned by advertisers. The only purpose all the website, social media and others have is to act as hidden ads to get us to consume so how could anyone ever make headway who opposes that.

Hell majority of our censorship is due to ads. Companies want crisp clean PG spaces to put their products next too. They don't want to risk controversy so they indirectly force company's to remove anything that would create those risks.

I think we're fucked and its only going to get more pervasive.

I screenshotted it from my phone, and I could only get so much in a screenshot. They are all the same items. Here's a desktop screenshot. Looks like the item has been 90+ claimed since morning. Another scam.

https://files.catbox.moe/0l4bwy.png