Wellthatsucks
Prime Day prices go down for members, right? Yeah, right.
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Prime day on things I’ve had in my basket for months has reduced the prices to …. What they were two months ago before they randomly went expensive last month.
you should show us that the item is being sold through amazon or not for karma purposes
Right. Didn’t notice that. Got my word on that one.
Are you in Canada? The same tablet is $140 USD on the Amazon US site. BTW the 128g is better since it comes with more ram.
Might be Australian, it’s $199 on .ca
From a quick look at their profile, it seems like they're in Canada so I have no idea what they're looking at lol probably is a 3rd party seller.
I have an A9+ that I got on sale from Best Buy for $159 (4gb version) almost a year ago. Wouldn't recommend, honestly. It's terribly slow. Apple actually makes better low-end tablets. Even the 6gb variant is probably ass.
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I forgot Prime Day was coming, and left two items in my cart from last week. So it is not all items, at least.
Mailman here. We all hate prime week (it’s not really just a single day anymore). That’s all I got to say about that
This year’s Prime Days have the most pathetic discounts on everything I don't need
Don't they increase prices before sales, then put them back down so they can claim they are on sale?
I always thought this was common practice for sellers on amazon and other big companies. Even the companies themselves.
It was a test. I put it in my cart the night before Prime. The next day the price went up.
Oh. I thought prime sale was starting Friday. My mistake.
Odd they increased the price. Does it say its on sale? That would be real scummy if they did that.
I had 9 items in my cart from this weekend. 1 stayed the same, 2 went up, the rest went down. FWIW.
Some items I've had in my cart for ages actually are at the lowest prices I've seen since adding them. Not sure how that translates to the rest of the site, but I actually did get two items for a deal today.
I think people are forgetting there's typically multiple sellers for each item on Amazon, all at different prices. When one seller runs out of stock, the price is going to change.
Fuck Amazon.
Yeah I feel like they raised prices on a lot of things. I was looking to get a new ssd card, it was $167 at 30% off last month and it’s now at $198 and still 30% off supposedly.
Fuck Amazon. Why are you giving them your money?
Prime Day is CamelCamelCamel Day
I use that camel camel camel site to check price history to make sure it’s a good deal.
This is why I canceled my Prime. Went from useful to outright scam, just like that
Use camelcamelcamel.com. it has price history tracking and you can set alerts.
I save everything to a Wishlist and update it with the cheapest price. You can watch the prices change hourly and daily. Everything on Amazon is sold like a commodity. You can also have two people in the same household have two different prices for the same item. Amazon also changes pricing on your shopping habits. Prime Day is rarely the best time to buy a product.
Track with Keepa. You'll see all prices go up a few days before Prime Day.
It’s all a scam boycott Amazon
Prime day is scam day
Stop falling for this capitalist shit
I'm glad I saw your post... there is a couple items I've been eyeing on amazon waiting on prime day, and they are more expensivenow... one was a kayak that was reg 1200, the primeday sale it says 1249 on sale from 1400
That tablet is basically Ewaste with 4GB of ram anyways.
I’m experimenting with this, too! An item in my cart was 30% off when I put it in there. Been there for 2 days. I knew Prime Day was coming up so I left it. Can’t wait to see the price today.
Happens every year. Raise prices a week before the sale and then drop them back to normal price for the "sale"
Prime Day is dogshit. I follow it pretty closely and there is no good deals left except maybe SD cards.
Always look at the price history during these types of sales. Usually they get jacked up right before so they can "drop" but 6 weeks prior they were the same or lower.
Try a different seller
this one has double the memory same tablet for about 30 less than what you have. It's only really about to 10 less than the lowest I've seen it at, but hey 10 dollars is 10 dollars.
Some people just aren’t very bright
I just got that exact tablet (that I'm currently typing this on) for $186 at Best Buy. Not refurbed either.
Kind of why I dropped Amazon altogether.
It was a small time retailer that saw someone finally had it in their cart then upped the price.
A lot of things in my cart went up in price by a few dollars. Not very prime day of them
I bought the 128GB version of this tablet from Amazon today.
I had had it in my cart at $217 yesterday, and today the price had dropped to $189.
I just use camel camel camel. Save everything I’m looking for and price I want and I don’t bother with prime days anymore. They jack prices up weeks before to make it look better on lots of products and often times there are better deals other times of the years.
Nothing in my camel list for today was on sale out of 20 items nothing.
One item went from $11.99 to $11.39 in my cart but shows it was $14.99 before prime days. BS just went down .60 cents
There was stuff that I was going to buy last week. I decided to wait for prime day to get a better discount. Amazon jacked up the original price and marked it down to a price that was more than it was last week. Lol
Did they ever claim that the price of every item goes down? No. It is a day of sales.
The items that go on sale would be subject to the normal ups and downs that Amazon prices have based on supply and demand. It also makes a difference whether it is an Amazon/prime product or a third party product.
Give me a S
Give me a C
Give me an A
Give me a M
Goooo SCAM!!!!
I just stopped buying anything I do not actually need
If this thing going up 10 bucks is a deal breaker for you then you shouldn't have even been considering buying it anyways if it's that tight, lol.
This happens throughout the year to items in my cart or saved for later items. Tariffs have played a huge role in price increases.
Prime Day doesn't mean everything is cheaper.
That tablet is $132. OP just have a third party seller saved to cart, either intentionally to farm karma or just incompetent.
Canadian
Then it's because it either wasn't offered for Canadians or it sold out instantly and OP got defaulted to the next third party seller. Nothing to do with Amazon "scam switch and bait"
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https://camelcamelcamel.com/ is your friend.
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Um. Look at my post history. I’m not an ad.
That site is handy for price histories, no matter how it gathers the data.
If you have information that the data is inaccurate, please post it.
I use that site all the time. Especially after I stopped using Honey.
Then what does it mean? They've literally been advertising it as their biggest sale of the year, so if stuff isn't cheaper then what is the point?
It's just a sale on certain items for Prime members.
But a sale never means EVERYTHING has to be on sale.
Some people have never worked in a retail environment and it shows lol
Some items are cheaper. Often some items are significantly cheaper. It’s like a Black Friday sale.
Have you ever gone into a store and they had big banners about a sale going on but not every single item in the store was discounted? How is this a new concept to you?