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I don't trust Subscribe & Save because of Amazon's dynamic pricing. The discount doesn't matter if the base piece tripled because of Amazon pricing shenanigans.

by thaeli 4y ago

dymk 4y ago
Has this ever actually happened?
- brewdad 4y ago
  What? Amazon changing prices? It happens every single day. I had something like 25 items in my Saved for Later and every time I logged in at least one and usually 3 or 4 of them had changed price.
  - dymk 4y ago
    No, I'm asking about the situation you described: Do you know of a situation where somebody started a subscription and had the base price triple. I'm not talking about the price of a box of tide pods going up by $1, I mean the situation you're describing where somebody effectively gets bait-and-switched with a 3x price increase.
joegahona 4y ago
I don't trust Subscribe & Save because of how they've tried to dupe me into it for products that clearly aren't subscription-worthy, and how it's pre-selected on items. I can't recall what I was purchasing one time that had "subscribe & save" preselected, but it was something absurd like a dog bed or a nose-hair clipper.
- mcintyre1994 4y ago
  On the flip side when they do that, can't you just take the discount and then cancel the subscription? I think I've done that before.
delecti 4y ago
That's a totally valid concern, but Amazon gives you a bunch of opportunity to avoid surprises. They send an email a few days before finalizing your upcoming deliveries, and you can review the price to see if it changed, and either skip a delivery, skip a single product in a delivery, or cancel a subscription entirely. As a real example: my subscriptions are on a 2 month cycle, and get delivered roughly on the 3rd, which gives me until the 26th of the preceding month to make changes. On the 24th they send an email with all the prices that will be charged if I don't change anything. With almost no friction, I can change or cancel anything up until the 26th.
- brewdad 4y ago
  I have had the price change between the review day and the shipment day. It was less than $2, so I never bothered trying to get the old price. I've since canceled my Prime for a number of reasons, so it's all irrelevant now

I don't trust Subscribe & Save because of Amazon's dynamic pricing. The discount doesn't matter if the base piece tripled because of Amazon pricing shenanigans.

by thaeli 4y ago

I don't trust Subscribe & Save because of Amazon's dynamic pricing. The discount doesn't matter if the base piece tripled because of Amazon pricing shenanigans.

dymk 4y ago

Has this ever actually happened?

brewdad 4y ago
What? Amazon changing prices? It happens every single day. I had something like 25 items in my Saved for Later and every time I logged in at least one and usually 3 or 4 of them had changed price.
- dymk 4y ago
  No, I'm asking about the situation you described: Do you know of a situation where somebody started a subscription and had the base price triple. I'm not talking about the price of a box of tide pods going up by $1, I mean the situation you're describing where somebody effectively gets bait-and-switched with a 3x price increase.

joegahona 4y ago

I don't trust Subscribe & Save because of how they've tried to dupe me into it for products that clearly aren't subscription-worthy, and how it's pre-selected on items. I can't recall what I was purchasing one time that had "subscribe & save" preselected, but it was something absurd like a dog bed or a nose-hair clipper.

mcintyre1994 4y ago
On the flip side when they do that, can't you just take the discount and then cancel the subscription? I think I've done that before.

delecti 4y ago

That's a totally valid concern, but Amazon gives you a bunch of opportunity to avoid surprises. They send an email a few days before finalizing your upcoming deliveries, and you can review the price to see if it changed, and either skip a delivery, skip a single product in a delivery, or cancel a subscription entirely. As a real example: my subscriptions are on a 2 month cycle, and get delivered roughly on the 3rd, which gives me until the 26th of the preceding month to make changes. On the 24th they send an email with all the prices that will be charged if I don't change anything. With almost no friction, I can change or cancel anything up until the 26th.

brewdad 4y ago
I have had the price change between the review day and the shipment day. It was less than $2, so I never bothered trying to get the old price. I've since canceled my Prime for a number of reasons, so it's all irrelevant now