Amazon basket - reason why not to click blindly on pay day.

[Mr Heavy]

Like many other folk, I tend to queue stuff up and buy at the end of the month. Today I decided that reading before clicking is absolutely essential. Now terrified.

Important messages for items in your Basket:

23 items in your Saved Items have changed price.

    RHX 4 Set Stainless Spring Loaded Toggle Case Box Chest Trunk Latch Catch Clamp Clip has decreased from £2.78 to £2.67
    2 TrustFire 18500 IMR 22A max discharge Flat Top 1100mAh 3.7v Li-ion Li-Mn Battery Batteries. High quality batteries!! has decreased from £8.45 to £6.99
    Visegrip 11sp Locking C Clamp 11in - Swivel Pad has increased from £17.39 to £25.19
    Pulse [DVD] [2006] has decreased from £10.87 to £9.11
    Fein Fein 921072K13 Step Adaptor has increased from £11.05 to £276.25

 

[joiner1970]

Is that Fein adapter made of gold lol

 

[Holmz]

"Fein" must have been an anagram.

 

[copcarcollector]

WOW! Only 6 bucks here in the USA! Tell you what, I will sell you some for $12 each.

 

[ear3]

That Fein seller must have the automatic pricing algorithm going.  I see this a lot with books, where the normal range of a book will be like from $15-$25, and then you will have some outliers at like $400 or $500, because the algorithms enter a death spiral automatically pushing up the price for those sellers who didn't set a ceiling. 

Like many other folk, I tend to queue stuff up and buy at the end of the month. Today I decided that reading before clicking is absolutely essential. Now terrified.

Important messages for items in your Basket:

23 items in your Saved Items have changed price.

    RHX 4 Set Stainless Spring Loaded Toggle Case Box Chest Trunk Latch Catch Clamp Clip has decreased from £2.78 to £2.67
    2 TrustFire 18500 IMR 22A max discharge Flat Top 1100mAh 3.7v Li-ion Li-Mn Battery Batteries. High quality batteries!! has decreased from £8.45 to £6.99
    Visegrip 11sp Locking C Clamp 11in - Swivel Pad has increased from £17.39 to £25.19
    Pulse [DVD] [2006] has decreased from £10.87 to £9.11
    Fein Fein 921072K13 Step Adaptor has increased from £11.05 to £276.25

 

[sancho57]

I don't sho until I'm ready to pull the trigger and buy the stuff straightaway.

Friday I'm dropping a little over 100 quid on some refinishing supplies. Will shop Friday then press the button.

 

[elfick]

It's worth noting that, because there are more sellers on Amazon.com than just Amazon, there is basically a queue. Lowest price with stock to ship seems to be who gets chosen when you select an item (unless you specify Prime, which I always do). I'm sure there are all kinds of weights involved but that is the basic idea. If every seller with a given item at the "normal" prices sells out, then a seller with an item at an inflated price floats to the top and gets selected.

 

[Mr Heavy]

It's worth noting that, because there are more sellers on Amazon.com than just Amazon, there is basically a queue. Lowest price with stock to ship seems to be who gets chosen when you select an item (unless you specify Prime, which I always do). I'm sure there are all kinds of weights involved but that is the basic idea. If every seller with a given item at the "normal" prices sells out, then a seller with an item at an inflated price floats to the top and gets selected.

Keeping non-urgent stuff in the basket often means getting a slightly better price if one waits for the re-stocking to come round again, which is why I do it and it gives me some "do I really need that?" time to assess my prioritisationification. It's also a lot more manageable than the wish list.

 

[rst]

I've always had a long term wish list that I maintain on Amazon.  By checking frequently, I've often gotten great deals.  I watched for literally years a Powermatic table saw, a 7 1/2 hp air compressor, and a 12" Makita slider.  I got the 66 Powermatic anniversary saw for $1850, a PC compressor for $1250 and the Makita for $450.  The big items were delivered free on a drop bed truck right to my shop door.  I could not really justify the Makita but at the price I bought it for I could not resist.  I also track items on Warehouse deals and have bought various Festools this way.