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Originally Posted by Busty2
Amazon is a great company but I have noticed in recent years that Prime is not always very successful, in other words The seller is made to charge a little more for the item to help Amazon cover the shipping costs along with the $10 a month or $99 annual Prime membership fees. The issue for me is that Prime 2 day is often 3,4 or even 5 business day delivery and that can be frustration if you need items in a hurry.
Another thing you may want to note about Amazon is that they piss around with prices, in some instances up to 10 times a day. What I mean by that is this, if you place a number of items in you cart or saved for later list and leave them there sometimes the price changes. For example I put a hot tub in my cart and left it there for weeks and then noticed the price starting to drop. Each day , sometimes two or three times a day the price would change. In the end I saved $800 over the original price is was going to pay.
Now I do that with all my purchases, I have a list of around 100 items that I need for my remodeling projects and by leaving them in the cart or list I am able to save huge amounts by being patient. I check the internet for competitive pricing but its rare that anyone beats Amazon.
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Amazon doesn't control the prices. All those items you are buying are coming from individual sellers. Someone like me.
I might have 1 of those items or I might have 50.. Meaning if I have the buy box and sell out, then the next guy gets the buy box. On top of this other sellers are changing their prices at random times to try to get the buy box. Meaning on a competitive item the price will often change a lot.
The only time Amazon has anything to do with that is when they are selling the item themselves or they allow the manufacturers to control the buy box.
Amazon is a warehouse network and website. Most of the items on their site are not Amazon's it's other people selling them and paying Amazon a fee..