Has anybody had or noticed this before. I had two items in my shopping trolley which I left for a day. Prior to going back to them to press buy I received a message saying my trolley had been updated with a more costly and revised version of what I had recently decided to purchase. I think this is bang out of order-especially when you take in to consideration you can often purchased used/second hand items (like books etc).
Amazon sneakily updating your purchases with a more costly alternative
- Thread starter ethan
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What? If they sent you a notification saying they've done it then it's hardly sneaky is it?
Chances are the cheaper one was out of stock when you went back to your basket so they added the next cheapest instead.
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I've had this with subscribe and save, items litterall doubling in price.
Yep had this happen a few times with nappies, they do send a notification to cover their back but the idea of subscribe and save is you subscribe and forget.
I can’t believe someone like amazon who must buy in ridiculous quantities can have something like nappies going up in price for a week and then suddenly dropping to their normal price again.
Probably from a different supplier.
If it was originally from Amazon, you might find it will preferentially swap to an alternative Amazon supplied item rather than the same item but from a third party seller.
Is this still the case with used items? Anyway, it still doesn't explain away the example given above. The item was originally five quid and replaced by the same item costing seventeen, before me realising and going back to aquire the same item for a fiver from the same supplier.
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CamelCamelCamel will track the cheapest price offered by Amazon, third party new and third party used.
yes. In the space of 1.5 hours in adding some headphones to my basket and then walking away from my pc, the price jumped up almost 50 quid.
sometimes the pricing on CCC can be out by a few days. noticed it on the above.
yes i got stung by this the other day. I wouldn't mind a bit of fluctuation percentage wise, but a couple of things were almost double or like 75% more expensive!
To be fair they said they would refund the difference back to the last price i paid.
I think i may quit subscribe and save if that becomes a regular occurrence though. Too risky and involves having to keep track of the prices all the time. Not worth it.
Items can come and go from stock quite quickly, I've had stuff in my basket that has changed price repeatedly over the space of several hours in the past, as well as come and gone from in stock from the supplier.
IIRC people selling via amazon tell the system how many they've got "in stock", and amazon will automatically note it's out when that number reaches zero, but depending on the seller they may then update their listings within minutes or hours, by which time Amazon's system has already noted they've run out and updated your basket with the message.
You tend to notice it most when there is something that is either in high demand, or a particular seller has a really good price for it, I've long since learned if I see a bargain linked to amazon and it's out of stock to check again a few times over the space of the day.
For example there was a backpack at £5 instead of £60 being sold by a retailer through amazon, it was in stock, out of stock, back in stock, out of stock, back in then sold out completely in the space of about 2-4 hours (I suspect the retailer only put a small number up at a time to avoid having all their stock tied up on Amazon rather than their own website)
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Prices change from suppliers, usually they update it to reflect this.
I've seen same tub of gorilla glue go up in price in my basket and got notification then week later dropped down again and was sent a notification.
I've seen same tub of gorilla glue go up in price in my basket and got notification then week later dropped down again and was sent a notification.
Yeah it is down to the way their system handles changing sellers, etc. it is a bit annoying as well when I've added something as sold by Prime and coming from Amazon themselves and left it for a few hours and the basket has updated to an item from a 3rd party seller albeit at a lower price while the Prime option is still in stock.
Sometimes this is due to non-Amazon sellers being lazy in the way they update or change their listings as well especially if they repurpose a listing :s
Sometimes this is due to non-Amazon sellers being lazy in the way they update or change their listings as well especially if they repurpose a listing :s