my credit union emailed me today about Prime Day deals, wtf?!?
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
more reasons to want to run for office in my credit union.
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.
Also they stole the product from a former 3rd party seller
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.
Camelcamelcamel is good, but Keepa has a browser extension that shows the price graph directly on the Amazon page, so you don’t have to go anywhere or click anything to see it.
Yeah, I use Keepa for the same thing. I checked before I bought the item, but it surprised me to see Amazon’s brand pulling that stunt.
Really? It surprised you? It surprises me that surprised you. I would’ve been surprised if Amazon didn’t pull something like that
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Prime Day is just Black Friday in July. Amazon is trying to get rid of old stock.
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.
This entire comment is the perfect explanation for my issue with people getting excited over Black Friday/Prime Day. I see so many people every year excitedly saying (or at times bragging), oh I got this, I got that, and it was so cheap. But unless you were already looking at that thing you haven’t saved money. You’ve actually spent more than you would have if it wasn’t on sale.
Aren’t there some website that track this?
I have no idea where the name came from, but there’s CamelCamelCamel.
The creator did an AMA on [redacted] and said that the site was initially just a side project, so the name didn’t matter. However, it started to get some traction. Then people knew it by that name, so it felt too late to change it. Now it’s way too late, so that’s the name
I use the Keepa browser extension
https://camelcamelcamel.com/ is the one I used
camelcamelcamel.com is the big one, I believe.
Oddly enough, I managed to find some really cheap gum. Usually $4.50 on sale at the shops but I got 6x bottles / packs of it for 12 bucks. Pretty happy finding little bargains like that!
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.
IME Amazon has worse prices on a lot of stuff lately. It’s mostly just convenience at this point.
Exactly, amazon is a thing because we all don’t have time to run to the store for that one thing that isn’t an emergency. I see it as another way that the " " system " " has boxed us more into the “CONSUME” driven American existence. Like, even if a store is 5 minutes away and you’re getting “one thing” it’s still going to take at least 30 minute commitment especially if that store is say “walmart”. If the store is 15 mins away, you’re basically at an hour commitment.
We don’t have time to do stuff like that anymore! I am trying to weigh that thought and the idea we are all just brainwashed into the immediacy of needing everything now.
I don’t know it’s a lot to think about… lol
For me, it’s not even time that pisses me off the most.
The in-store retail experience has gone to complete and utter garbage. You take the time to get to the store, then wander around dirty aisles that are picked-over, only to find that the thing you needed or wanted isn’t even in stock (even though the website says it is). Having worked retail, I know there’s usually not “one in the back,” so even if I could find an employee (doubtful) it’s not worth the pain in the ass to do it. If you’re lucky there’s something good enough for purpose, so you take that to the front, where there’s one overworked cashier for the entire store and 3 more employees standing around talking next to the self checkouts, which don’t work.
If I order the same thing on Amazon, sure, I might have to spend a couple dollars more. What I don’t have to do is deal with all the hassle that comes with brick-and-mortar retail. Plus, if something’s not right Amazon makes returns and exchanges pretty damn easy.
I look for stores that have pickup available for some things, them all I have to do is drive there and get it. No needing to look or wait. If it isn’t in stock, the order gets cancelled and I don’t have to look for it.
If you’re into amazon electronics, that’s the only time to buy because it’s the only thing on sale. lol.
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.
Idk why anyone is surprised Amazon is deceitful lmao
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.
Hard-core Dark Patterns, amazon…
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.
Amazon could use the average price over the last 3 months l, but they don’t care.
Exactly. They have all the data in the world, but I’m sure they are doing what’s optimal for their profit.
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.
The normal price is $89.99, which represents a 15% discount off the MSRP of $119.99 (that they’re claiming). The current price of $64.99, is a discount of 42%, which represents an additional 27% off. I don’t think this listing necessarily proves the point.
That being said, companies absolutely do engage in this kind of bullshit. This one may have done it itself in order to claim the MSRP at $119.99.
Use camelcamelcamel to check price history, really shows how “good” the sales are!
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
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 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.
So that’s the same price that was visible in the first one. Still no actual price shown from before Prime day.
May be my screenshots are confusing, because I didn’t screenshot the product page when I purchased. Look at my order details. The price is the same $89. But on line 3 there is a $45 promotion applied. That was because there was a 50% off coupon available on the page that I clipped. After the coupon, the price came down to $45. Now on Prime day, they brought down the price to $65, but they also dropped the coupon to 10%, so the effective price now is $59, which is a lot more than what I paid last week. Does that make sense?
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.
I mostly bought mundane stuff and I’m turn didn’t leave disappointed. Disinfecting wipes, ibuprofen, etc.
Same.
Demand is through the roof so there is less excess inventory to try to move.
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 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.
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.
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
Absolutely right, we could see many 4080 cards drop to around 1200-1300. I hope we do.
