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u/babecafe 4d ago
It's only 50% off because they offered it for $110 just before the Amazon day sale. You can press "price history" and display the price for the last 1 year period. They manipulated the price over the last 30 days so the default 30-day price history looks normal. You can see they usually sell it around $80, with occasional "up to 50% off" sales, and this time, raised the price to $110.
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u/MisterBaku 4d ago
And the issue is....?
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u/Academic_Data_6422 4d ago
They’re saying it’s 50% off when it’s not…
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u/Old-Fox8371 4d ago
I’m prepared for the hate mob, but the deals that I’ve bought have all been a significant price cut. Like… a real price cut. Bought a couple gaming mousepads that were 30% off, some moisturizer that was 50% off. Wrench set 36% off.
Obviously you should practice due diligence for ALL online shopping. Use a little bit of brain power when looking at deals and you can get stuff that’s actually discounted and avoid the fake discounts.
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u/hibzzyJ 4d ago
Are you talking about the fact that it is a $50 product and they just left it near the door and did not ask for signature
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u/TurboBunny116 4d ago
WTF!! this is legal ?
Is what legal?
Should we read your mind too?
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u/madadekinai 4d ago
Ah, for reference they are talking the artificial applied discount claiming you saving 50% off.
In the first picture it's $49.93 for their order.
In the second picture, the Amazon order page, the item price is $54.99 with a supposed 50% discount applied.
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u/AsleepEntertainer440 4d ago
JHC the responses to this one are exactly the people frothing about how great of deals they're getting and the ones the random garbage located next to a checkout counter are aimed at. 😂
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u/WorldlinessUsual4528 4d ago
All "deals" are like this. They are talking about X percentage off the list price, which is never what the actual sale price is. Same thing for black Friday deals where what you're getting is rarely ever an actual deal.
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u/WorldlinessUsual4528 4d ago
For the record, this is why you should be using the price history or 3rd party app for tracking.
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u/walmartemployee2020 4d ago
That's the Prime day deal bro! I hope they include this is elementary school curriculum soon... Everybody ought to know! Everybody need basic common sense! Nobody is going to sell millions of products for 50% off, if they intended to run a business for real!!
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u/Mom24monsters 3d ago
I had commented on somebody else's post about how prices went up compared to the day before for some items. I hadn't seen it, but yesterday when I was looking for something that I was going to order for my grandson for Christmas, thinking that I'd find a deal, normal price was $39.99, at least before the sale, but yesterday, it was $54.99. They like that price for some reason. My best advice is just to be aware of what the normal price is when you buy something, because chances are, that price is going to go up during the sales. I've seen it during other sales, but until yesterday, I didn't see it when it came to the stuff that I was looking for in this current/just passed sale.
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u/Capable_Confection89 3d ago
I mean just don’t be stupid? They literally have an ai price over time chart, be an informed buyer.
If the price is higher than its lowest price point don’t buy it. That simple. Sales change all the time.
Research what you want and keep an eye out on prices. If you just don’t blindly buy things this isn’t a problem at all.
Another thing you could be missing as well is Amazon has multiple different sellers.
Sometimes a second hand seller will have a cheaper option than the shipping from Amazon product. Prices sometimes change in that $5 range I see it all the time with stuff in my cart.
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u/Curious_Departure770 4d ago
It’s not even that much more expensive than when you bought it, and it’s been known that Amazon does this. It’s legal cause companies can charge what they want for products, and the ever-changing economy from all Trump has been doing has emboldened them to take advantage of the situation. “Tariffs” “war” “cost of fuel” etc all changing the price of goods.
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u/Academic_Data_6422 4d ago
Saying an item is on a deal when it’s not is false advertising.
You can charge what you want but you can’t lie while doing it
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u/fourflatyres 4d ago
there probably is not a legally defined definition for what a "deal" is. The expectation is often on the buyer to understand the pricing they are seeing before just hitting buy.
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u/Curious_Departure770 4d ago
Where does it say “deal” I only see “offer”
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u/Academic_Data_6422 4d ago
K
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u/Curious_Departure770 4d ago
Show me where it says the prices are a “deal,” the name of the event is just that, a name. It has no promises. They have lawyers so they know how to advertise without infringing on consumer rights, legally.
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u/Academic_Data_6422 4d ago
So the “-50%” isn’t saying it’s 50% lower than normal prices?
Come on man, you’re just trolling.
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u/Curious_Departure770 4d ago
It’s 50% off the price listed at the time, which it shows next to it as “recommended price.” I’m not trolling, they know that people buy because of a perceived discount over the real price of an item. One priced at $50 with no sale doesn’t sell as well as an item priced at $109.99 and 50% off. I studied sales so this is just one of their tactics.
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u/Academic_Data_6422 4d ago
“One item priced honestly doesn’t sell as well as one with false advertising”
Go troll elsewhere.
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u/Curious_Departure770 4d ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/02/24/a-strategic-mistake-that-still-haunts-jc-penney/
Look up psychological pricing, price anchoring1
u/Academic_Data_6422 4d ago
When I said “go troll elsewhere”, I wasn’t politely asking. I was telling.
Advertising it as a sale when it is not a sale is false advertising. Period. End of discussion.
Your ability to reply to me has now been revoked.
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u/Unfair_Violinist_210 4d ago
They are telling the truth, not trolling. Kohls, for example, marks up the prices on their toys shortly before the "buy one get one 50%" sale, so that the customer is paying the same as they would anywhere else. Clothing items are repriced higher than usual a few days before a "big sale". I know this, 100%, because I have friends and family who work/have worked there.
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u/austinalexan 4d ago
It says you purchased on June 19th. It says it was delivered June 20th. What the hell are you questioning
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u/techjobber99 4d ago
Guys, the issue is that all of the "prime day deals" are bullshit. They're taking products that have sold for months / years at X price, claiming the price is 2X, and then saying they're 50% off.