Amazon. WTF?

[GilpinGuy]

This was interesting. I have a product that I need, so I checked out the manufacturers price - $174.99.

I then go to Amazon and check the price there. The same - $174.99.

Then I go back to the manufacturer and apply a $5.00 discount code. Cool. $5 off. I see that shipping is $14.00. Hmmmmm.

I go back to Amazon to check to see what the shipping is there....and the price jumped $10.00 exactly. This is within 5 minutes. And shipping was a few bucks more than the manufacturer anyway. So Amazon basically fucked themselves twice. (No, I'm not a Prime member btw.)

Kinda pissed me off how THEY are appparently watching every click I make, even though it screwed them in the end. Or am I all tin foil hat here?

And no, I was not mistaken with Amazon's price. I've been considering this purchase for weeks and have been checking prices. Always the same. I thought maybe I'd get a Black Friday deal with Amazon...not so much.

[brutal]

Not too much foil IMHO.

I'm convinced that every time my wife shops for airfare, the price goes up each time she looks...

I always tell her, "If you see a price that's reasonable, take it." I'm not talking over days, I'm talking in the same day, even in the same hour when there are no apparent seat purchases. Go check on a mobile device off our wifi network and under a different user and the price is lower.

If anyone thinks they're not tracking you, you're sadly mistaken.

[Great-Kazoo]

If I'm looking to buy something I've checked prices on other sites, I delete browser history first. When I don't, what I looked at seems to pop up in th weirdest places. Oh yeah EVERYONE knows what one looks at on line.

[GilpinGuy]

Am I insane, or does it seem logical to LOWER your price if someone is shopping around?

[Bailey Guns]

I've had the same thing happen on Amazon. On the other hand, I've also had the price drop pretty substantially on occasion. I still buy a lot from Amazon just for the convenience, even when they're priced slightly higher than other sites.

[lostcolorado]

Most browsers have a "private" mode. Chrome calls it Incognito. When you close the browser window cookies and history are deleted. I've heard this helps with repeated visits to travel sights, but unfortunately there are other ways to track your activity.



http://privatebrowsingmyths.com

[funkymonkey1111]

Was it an utem fulfilled by amazon? Or a third party? Or the same company you wanted to buy the item from?

[ray1970]

Oh yeah EVERYONE knows what one looks at on line.

Pornography?

[ray1970]

Speaking of tracking stuff, I have a theory that smart phones are constantly listening to everything you say.

I can be having a conversation with the guys at work about something totally random when one of us decides we need to Google that particular subject. When one of us pulls our phone out to search after the first one or two letters the subject we were just discussing pops up as a suggested search. And I'm not talking about common subjects like "What's the capital of Massachusetts." It can be something like how many people have died from choking on asparagus. You'll type in the word "how" and the top suggesion will be "how many people have died from choking on asparagus."

[Ronin13]

Speaking of tracking stuff, I have a theory that smart phones are constantly listening to everything you say.

I can be having a conversation with the guys at work about something totally random when one of us decides we need to Google that particular subject. When one of us pulls our phone out to search after the first one or two letters the subject we were just discussing pops up as a suggested search. And I'm not talking about common subjects like "What's the capital of Massachusetts." It can be something like how many people have died from choking on asparagus. You'll type in the word "how" and the top suggesion will be "how many people have died from choking on asparagus."

Now that is strange. I know that everything you browse for online gets put into some kind of program that tailors ads to things you've searched for (Bud's Guns ads on MSNBC? Nothing short of hilarious, if not odd).

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