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

Prime Day is just Black Friday in July. Amazon is trying to get rid of old stock.

In Europe there's a law that forces stores (online but also physical) to post also the lowest minimum price in the last month.

So it would be €199 €64 (lowest price in the last 30 days: €39)

Not to defend Amazon, but in past years the comments in Reddit on this issue pointed out that Amazon has requirements on markdown percentages to qualify for prime day and lightning sales. As a result, vendors who control their price will artificially increase their price over the days leading to prime day and then apply the “discount”.

I do wish that if that were the case that Amazon actually address it as they should be able to detect that pattern. I unfortunately think they don’t care as they make money regardless. I just wish they care a bit more about earning and keeping trust.

Common Amazon deception. Mark up a product's base cost artificially, then take a "percentage off" to bring it back down to near the base price it always is. Maybe slightly more expensive or cheaper, but usually just a smidge away from the normal cost. It's for the illusion of "being on sale."

Use an Amazon price tracker site (like camel camel camel for example) so that you can always call out Amazon and make sure that you're getting their actual lowest prices when you have to buy from them.

my credit union emailed me today about Prime Day deals, wtf?!?

Use camelcamelcamel to check price history, really shows how "good" the sales are!

Amusingly enough, I bought an small appliance yesterday, amazon had worse deals than a big box store. They had cheaper prices on no name junk that was gonna take a week to get to me. Prime day is total shit.

Even the percentage claimed is just complete garbage. Zero proof of how many are actually sold, the counter could start at 70% sold for all we know. Even if there was proof, it's still clearly just a "other people bought this so you aren't stupid for buying it too".

Really good manipulation there tbh. Someone probably got a raise for that

Prime Day a scam? What? Impossible!

Fucking AnazonBasics pulled this shit with something I bought. Not quite as bad; it was still technically on sale, but only by $2 instead of the $7 they would have you believe.

Idk why anyone is surprised Amazon is deceitful lmao

The AMD 5800x3d prime day deal is 9% off at $401 CAD, but two days ago it was $359.

On the other hand, the Zotac RTX 4080 Trinity OC was $1589 CAD, and for prime day is $1229, an actual deal.

I called out best buy for this exact same practice years ago. I refuse to participate in mass sales now as a result. It's all just a giant scam. Either blantant lies on pricing, or they use inferior parts for the sale items.

I'm the only one who was very underwhelmed by this year's Prime Day(s)?

I know it's for clearing out their warehouses, but most of the sales were on crap or only minor discounts.

Don't trust Amazon. https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/amazon-class-action-lawsuit-and-settlement-news/amazon-class-action-alleges-prime-subscribers-pay-false-discount-prices/

The only advice I can give is buy base on what you feel an item is worth to you.

I'm perfectly fine to keep searching for something for months before I finally make a purchase cause its the right price, color and model for me.

We need better tools and ability to track this stuff. Pretty amazing we can have a super powered chatbot that can answer any question but I can't find an excel sheet that tracks historical prices of goods in a meaningful way.

Also I bet it would be illegal to create that excel sheet in some way.

This shows consumerism as its finest (or worst). Easy for me to say control your urges but it does help by not buying any crap that you might think you want and clutter up your place

Hard-core Dark Patterns, amazon...

Your screen shots don’t show the item being sold in the first one or the price in the second one. I fully believe Amazon is doing Amazon things but did you even look at your own pictures before making your post?

I was looking at a QNAP NAS box. When I added it to watch it was $589. Yesterday before prime day it was $573. This morning it was $582. Mid day it was back to $589.

Not a big difference and it wasn’t a prime day deal. But it’s more expensive than yesterday?

Ingoe a good chuckle this morning when checking my Amazon cart and getting notifications of multiple items having lower prices and none had it increased.