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> Just yesterday I looked up something on Amazon. Sent the link to my girlfriend. She saw a price that was $10 more. Out of curiosity, are you and your girlfri

by zamfi 7y ago

> Just yesterday I looked up something on Amazon. Sent the link to my girlfriend. She saw a price that was $10 more. Out of curiosity, are you and your girlfriend in the same geographic market & served by the same amazon warehouse? And are you both prime members? I wonder if this is personalized to the individual or based on other factors.

Ididntdothis 7y ago
We live in the same house. She has Prime , I don’t.
- Mountain_Skies 7y ago
  Had the exact same experience back in December with an Echo Flex. I saw a good price, knew my roommate wanted one, so I went downstairs to let him know. His price was $10 higher even though he has Prime and I do not. Same address. The only difference I could think of was that he is a heavy user of multiple Echo devices while I own one that's in its box in a closet. He probably spends at least ten times as much annually with Amazon as I do.
  - Ididntdothis 7y ago
    I guess amazon views prime users as suckers who will pay more.
    - perl4ever 7y ago
      ...for shipping. Free shipping costs $10. I wanted to order something the other day that should be in a local store, but wasn't, and random specialty websites had stuff for $20 plus shipping. So I found something equivalent on Amazon for $8, and when they pestered me about signing up for Prime to get free shipping, I did it and then set a calendar reminder for a week later to cancel it after I got my order. This sort of game could well make people working at Amazon feel justified in manipulating customers, but there doesn't seem to be any choice except to play the game everybody is. Random things on Amazon that I consider buying are often double or triple the price they should be, so I try to buy anywhere else if at all possible these days.
- zamfi 7y ago
  Interesting. Maybe it showed you the lowest-cost vendor, and showed her the lowest-cost vendor with Prime shipping? And the difference was $10? Or was it shipped from and sold by the same place?
  - Ididntdothis 7y ago
    No idea. Shipping would have been for both of us.
    - zamfi 7y ago
      Not sure what you mean — prime members get faster shipping on prime items, so maybe it showed her the vender with “prime” and that was $10 more expensive.

by zamfi 7y ago

Ididntdothis 7y ago

We live in the same house. She has Prime , I don’t.

Mountain_Skies 7y ago
Had the exact same experience back in December with an Echo Flex. I saw a good price, knew my roommate wanted one, so I went downstairs to let him know. His price was $10 higher even though he has Prime and I do not. Same address. The only difference I could think of was that he is a heavy user of multiple Echo devices while I own one that's in its box in a closet. He probably spends at least ten times as much annually with Amazon as I do.
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  I guess amazon views prime users as suckers who will pay more.
  - perl4ever 7y ago
    ...for shipping. Free shipping costs $10. I wanted to order something the other day that should be in a local store, but wasn't, and random specialty websites had stuff for $20 plus shipping. So I found something equivalent on Amazon for $8, and when they pestered me about signing up for Prime to get free shipping, I did it and then set a calendar reminder for a week later to cancel it after I got my order. This sort of game could well make people working at Amazon feel justified in manipulating customers, but there doesn't seem to be any choice except to play the game everybody is. Random things on Amazon that I consider buying are often double or triple the price they should be, so I try to buy anywhere else if at all possible these days.
zamfi 7y ago
Interesting. Maybe it showed you the lowest-cost vendor, and showed her the lowest-cost vendor with Prime shipping? And the difference was $10? Or was it shipped from and sold by the same place?
- Ididntdothis 7y ago
  No idea. Shipping would have been for both of us.
  - zamfi 7y ago
    Not sure what you mean — prime members get faster shipping on prime items, so maybe it showed her the vender with “prime” and that was $10 more expensive.