Pricing

What is the big A website?

OK, I give up.  What is "big A"?

My guess is a nearly 4,000 mile long river in South America...but not positive

Amazon ???

Boy, a couple of those in the $30-40 range would hit the spot!

Amazing deal!!!

There are deals almost everyday. I have posted a couple  but nobody seems to really have much interest, so I stopped posting.

Today I bought 3 Bachmann Ez street cars for $9.87 each. Obviously should have been 89.87. Its showing them still available.

Edit... Now showing at 56.98 each.

Strange, never had any luck there. Everything seems way over priced...

Thanks.  Amazon makes sense.  Several years ago they showed brand new Pittman 9232 motors with ball bearings for 8 dollars and change each.  They should have been $89 each.  They showed 11 in stock and I wasted not time in buying them all.

Two weeks ago I bought 2 Polar Express caribou packs for $7.80 each. Regular price is $26.99 on Amazon. No rhyme or reason to what you find on Amazon but I have seen the opposite as well where their prices are astronomical. You need to be an educated buyer wherever you shop.

When you deal with Amazon, it can be Amazon itself or any number of other retailers and private sellers.

Simon

Reminds me of finding an end cap at HD of two large cases of white 20 amp GFCI outlets priced at $2.97 each.  I went to the sales clerk to inform him of the mistake he said that is the correct price.  I appealed to the manager that there had to be a big mistake.  Rebuffed again.  I then mentioned it to the store manager and he said corporate sets the pricing and that is the selling price

They were probably either special order, overstock or closeout. Some times the Big Box stores just want to move out merchandise. My last big bargain from one of those home centers was a fair number of R-30 bulbs for recessed ceiling lights. Normally they run something like $3 or $4 each, they were priced at 25 cents. I asked why they were so inexpensive, and was told they were a special order that wasn't picked up.

I agree about pricing on Amazon.  There's definitely some kind of algorithm happening there.  I bought a 4 car set of CP 18" streamliners for $97.  After that, the price shot up to over $200 on the 1 remaining in inventory.  Right now it's $159.

Early on (2004), if you put something in a shopping list, the price could have radical fluctuations to encourage you to buy it.  And, I mean radical - put something in at 329 and it could go to 159, and then 185 if if you didn't buy it at 159. Doesn't happen nearly as much, but it had me buying some extremely good deals when I saw this happening.

Fred

The big A also tracks you.  If you look at an item with a price of $10 today, and then look at it a few days later the price may increase to $12 or more.  If you then look at the same item on a different computer, you will probably see the $10 price.

The big A uses cookies.  To get their best prices, it is good practice to delete your cookies and to not log in when looking at items.

Good idea, not logging in.  Thanks.