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Amazon accused again of overcharging shoppers with Buy Box (www.theregister.com)

submitted 9 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 55 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Unrelated to this claim, but I've also noticed really rapid price adjustments of a few cents on products.

It seems like Amazon raises prices frequently based on what's in carts and how many page clicks it gets.

A $6 item changed from $5.95 to $6.05 to $5.98 in a span of an hour.

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Put some items in your cart. Move them to Save for later. Almost every time you go back to your cart you'll have a notification saying that prices have changed. Happens more on some days than others. Not just Amazon provided items either. Other sellers have bots that automatically adjust the prices using who knows what guidelines.

[–] jettrscga@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, that's what I did. Removed it from my cart and waited an hour and suddenly it was a little cheaper.

I have no doubt there are bots monitoring to get every cent out of each transaction, knowing that people probably won't care about small changes.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have no doubt there are bots monitoring to get every cent out of each transaction

These bots occasionally get stuck in a loop which results in hilariously absurd pricing: https://youtube.com/watch?v=sseSi0k3Ecg

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[–] Marcbmann@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

There is a new promotion type used by sellers that allow us to target people who have abandoned cart. We can offer exclusive discounts to those people.

[–] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago

On the other hand, I recently got 5 cents and 17 cents back for things I bought some time ago and was wrongly priced, apparently.

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