does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies?

   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #31  
Ive seen items priced well below what stores sell them for on amazon, but after someone buys an item, I see the prices automatically increase for same item. Automatic algorithms do it or so I’m told. I purchased a seat cover for my Kawasaki mule for $44.

After purchase the wife wanted a second one as a spare, since the price was so good. I went back on and same seller was now selling the same item for $68.00. This was within 5 minutes. It is automatic.

But I like amazon prime. Get lots of good deals and never pay shipping. Never.
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #32  
Ive seen items priced well below what stores sell them for on amazon, but after someone buys an item, I see the prices automatically increase for same item. Automatic algorithms do it or so I’m told. I purchased a seat cover for my Kawasaki mule for $44.

After purchase the wife wanted a second one as a spare, since the price was so good. I went back on and same seller was now selling the same item for $68.00. This was within 5 minutes. It is automatic.

But I like amazon prime. Get lots of good deals and never pay shipping. Never.

I have also noticed, on multiple occasions on Prime that when I immediately return to buy the same identical item that I had just ordered, it will say "cannot ship to your address". Why will they ship once but not twice? Irritating.
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #33  
I have also noticed, on multiple occasions on Prime that when I immediately return to buy the same identical item that I had just ordered, it will say "cannot ship to your address". Why will they ship once but not twice? Irritating.
That is weird. I have not seen that. E bay now has a lot of ads with guaranteed ship by dates. The last 3 things I purchased did not arrive by those dates...one took 2 weeks longer. Ebay gave me 3 - $5 gift certificates as compensation. I ordered a oil filter and air filter for husky mower. Ended up costing me $2.16 after gift certificates used. Nice.
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #34  
There was a member on TBN that sold Olive Oil that told of her Amazon experiences.
I recall she had many fees and warehouse costs that entered the picture as well as listing problems.
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #35  
I have also noticed, on multiple occasions on Prime that when I immediately return to buy the same identical item that I had just ordered, it will say "cannot ship to your address". Why will they ship once but not twice? Irritating.

Might be an Alaska thing...... I've noticed other companies with different shipping conditions for AK and HI.

Rgds, D.
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #36  
I do shop around for many things and don't just blindly buy from Amazon. I have seen very high prices on Amazon that just do not make sense. We have noticed that people are buying stuff at Costco and then putting up for sale on Amazon. Kinda surprising but people are buying it. :confused3:

With the lock down, people have gone out and bought up all of the flour and dried yeast. Dried yeast sales are about 650ish% :shocked: and good luck finding any. I have been making bread all year and before the lock down, was thinking about making a sour dough starter so I would not have to buy so much dry yeast. Well, after the dried yeast and flour was off the shelf, making a sour dough starter was no longer an option. :laughing: Lucky for me, I was running out of flour just before the lock down happened and I bought my regular whole grain flour but saw a white whole grain flour and bought that too. This was goodness because a week later, there was no flour at all on the shelves.

After looking for weeks for flour at different stores, I went to King Arthur's website to see if they had information on when more flour would be shipped. They said 3-4 weeks was the current back order time!:shocked:

Surprisingly, one can buy King Arthur flour directly from the company. They were limiting orders, fair enough, but they had some things in stock and I could back order the other stuff. Supposedly, the do not charge until the order is shipped, and they ship the entire order at once, but I saw a charge go through last night for a partial amount. Hoping that means that will ship a partial order or maybe the back ordered stuff is arriving.

King Arthur has a Amazon Prime type of deal for $40. I did the math and spent the money. If I order once or twice more I will more than get the $40 back. Another surprise was that the price of flour from King Arthur was the same as my local store. :confused3: They also had some dried yeast. One brand was sold out but they had another. I have noticed that the dry yeast for sale in my store is from Mexico. Mexico shut down the breweries as non essential and I wonder if the same happened for the company making dried yeast.

I have been wanting to change how we store certain foods, like flour, sugar, oatmeal, etc., for quite some time. Started on an idea a few years ago and decided that now was the time to complete what I had started. Basically, it was to buy the nice glass Fido jars to store food. These are made in Italy, have the metal clamps that squeeze a rubber gasket to seal the container. One of the nice things about them is the jars are square, not round, so one can maximize storage space.

Off to Amazon and did some pricing. Amazon price seemed on the high side and they did not have what I needed so searched the web. Home Depot had a good price on one size I needed but were out of stock. Since the jars are from Italy, I am doubting they will get a resupply any time soon. Found a rather small kitchen store in MO that had the jars in stock and for a good price. VERY impressed with how they packaged and shipped the good. :thumbsup: I needed a few more of the jars so reordered. There is a smaller jar size I would like to have but I can't find them so it looks like I will have to wait until things start shipping from Italy again.

Youse gots to shop. :D

Later,
Dan
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #37  
There was a member on TBN that sold Olive Oil that told of her Amazon experiences.
I recall she had many fees and warehouse costs that entered the picture as well as listing problems.

Correct. That was Rox and she had to jump through hoops with Amazon.

Later,
Dan
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #38  
Overall, Prime has saved me thousands of dollars in shipping costs and everything is delivered right to my door. I don't have to make a 250 mile roundtrip to shop at a decent store.
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #39  
I'm slowly starting to see both bread and flour make it's way back onto store shelves. I hope that people stop buying up all of the bleach soon... I need to shock my well which will take all that I have on hand.
 
   / does anyone understand Amazon's sale strategies? #40  
I'm slowly starting to see both bread and flour make it's way back onto store shelves. I hope that people stop buying up all of the bleach soon... I need to shock my well which will take all that I have on hand.

I also need to shock my well. The iron bacteria and manganese need to be spanked back in to submission. :D
 

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