Comments on: Amazon price drop policy; let the games begin.

By: Ben HYde

Ben HYde — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:35:37 +0000

Hi Jim! - Sounds like your not seeing the behavior I observed. No matter how I navigated to the item, for example stripping out the session ID and leaving only the Amazon product ID in the URL, I’d only see the price my wife originally paid. As soon as I logged out as her the price dropped.

Caleb - Yea making small sums of money playing the shopping games is actually common; but it tends to be difficult to make enough money that it could pay for your time. I wouldn’t recomend it as a way to make a living; at least not online.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:26:11 +0000

Thanks for the link Ben. The price listed on the invoice will always be the price you paid, you have to click on the item link itself to see the current selling price. Glad to hear you were able to save some money.

Caleb: Yes you could but they probably have price checking algorithms in place to combat that.

By: caleb

caleb — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:10:43 +0000

Could you possibly -make- money by shopping this way? Imagine if two cameras are $150 each, but the Buy Both and Save, or some other coupon, puts you down to $100 for both. Now, if the price drops to $80 per, they would refund you $140. They’d end up paying you $40 to buy two cameras from them. I realize the drop of $70 per pot is probably unrealistic, but it’s an idea.