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Amazon price discrepancy between two accounts

May 23, 2012 3:02 PM

I have two Amazon accounts. One is a student prime and the other is an old account. I was looking at the price of a CD, and found it was cheaper when I logged in under my old account. Anyone else have that happen or know the reason why. I actually thought maybe it was a glitch, so I logged out and in a few times.

bellavampyre bellavampyre

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I haven't noticed the discrepancy between two accounts, but I notice that prices fluctuate A LOT. My new conclusion is that when one seller sells out, the next "lowest price" is the new higher price that you see. I bought a tablet Monday, and it went up $30 by Tuesday, but by a different seller.

--Edit: and now it's back down $20 by an even different seller, but no FSSS.

luvche21 luvche21
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I have never experienced this. Wonder when you go through the checkout process if the prices adjust?

jimmyd103 jimmyd103
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Nope, still the same. I wasn't going to buy it anyway (I buy mp3's now), but my OCD just can't leave it alone! lmao

bellavampyre bellavampyre
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This happens more than most people realize. I often look at Amazon prices with a browser that has never been logged in to my Amazon account, and will see prices that are different (and for those playing along, these are AMAZON prices, not Amazon Storefront prices). They'll have different prices regionally, now and then, too.

It doesn't happen nearly as often as it used to, but I still see it.

Since it has always been a price difference in my favor, I don't care. If it was less, I'd take screen shots, and give them a call, and point out that there was a difference.

Amazon's still my favorite place to shop online, with Moofi and Wine dot Woot being tied for second place. Best recent purchase?

http://www.amazon.com/On-The-Radio-Greatest-Vol-1/dp/B000001F8P/ref=ntt_mus_dp_dpt_1

shrdlu shrdlu
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I remember back in the old cowboy days of the internet Amazon was using a sort of price discrimination as some sort of test. When people found out there was a big stink about it. Wikipedia has a bunch of info. There's also this.

zuiquan zuiquan
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@shrdlu: Oh I agree. Amazon is my "go to" place. I love them... I love prime and cloud... I'd say only 5% of the time to I find things cheaper elsewhere.

bellavampyre bellavampyre
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I have somewhat noticed it. I always double check prices through Google Shopping. They will list the cheapest Amazon price, then just click "Prime" on the left hand part of the screen (if you have it.)
I hate to spam but http://www.camelcamelcamel.com/ is awesome to track prices on Amazon

atd15 atd15
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@atd15: I have never heard of this site before but by the looks of it (2 minutes worth), this might become one of my favs. Never thought I would ever type this but thanks for posting the spam. :)

jimmyd103 jimmyd103
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@atd15: CamelCamelCamel.com was a good site to use as reference. I have used it in the past to request a raincheck price on an item that was no longer on sale. Amazon's great like that.

capguncowboy capguncowboy
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@zuiquan: Huh. If early Amazon era was the cowboy days, what was the pre-B&N books.com era?

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