Has Anyone Else Noticed Amazon Manipulating Prices?
Here's what recently happened with me. I bought a new rear differential cover for my GMC truck on Amazon, and it came with a plug that wasn't magnetized. Well you need a magnet in the rear differential same as a transmission to catch all the little fine metal that comes off the gears, so it doesn't work as an abrasive to accelerate gear wear, a magnet will gather that up and hold on to it, SO, I had looked at several different little disc shaped raw magnets, and had one already in the purchase process when I changed my mind and canceled the purchase. Within minutes of checking on what had halted my purchase I decided that what I was buying would after all suit my needs the best, so I went to repurchase it with the Amazon "buy it again" option, and the price of it had DOUBLED... INSTANTLY. What was a $4.75 magnetic was now OVER $9.00 So I started checking the prices of ALL the little disc magnets I had been looking at and ALL the prices had shot up. So I called Amazon and asked them what was going on and they had no explanation other than, "there's nothing we can do about it."
So that got me thinking, I should check other things. The gym that I have in my wish list that I had planned to buy this Fall, it was $575 when I put it in my wish list, and now it's $916. A Panamax line conditioner for home electronics had been $389, now it's $460. A pair of Nikon binoculars were under a hundred, now $170.
It seems to me that Amazon gives you ONE CHANCE to buy something at a low price, or even if you put it in your wish list, if you DON'T buy it, or you take too long to buy it, the price goes way up.
Anyone else notice this?
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