Amazon prices

[opps]

A year and a half ago, I was browsing through the Amazon "warehouse" (now known as "resale") section and found some stoopidly cheap abrasives for one of my Festool sanders. It was £10.60 for a box of 100, 7" disks. Unfortunately, only one was available.

It should have been about £60-70.

I have just found someone else on Amazon selling the same product for £263

I appreciate that sellers have to upload an excel sheet to Amazon and that, from time to time, they make errors in the prices/sheet, but there are a total of two vendors selling the same item at the same price. I suspect that both vendors are the same person/company.

 

[Murdochcat]

I find that people think that Amazon is always the cheapest - so don’t check any pricing, which is foolish to say the least

 

[opps]

Urgh, I just tried buying some 9mm, Olfa snap-off blades for my (work) decorating knife. Amazon asked me to enter my DOB, it then told me that it couldn't verify my age...

Edit- I am well old...

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

For a period from about April 23 - March 24 they were about £15 new, before that they were about £90, it's only recently they went up to £263ish.

 

[opps]

I find that people think that Amazon is always the cheapest - so don’t check any pricing, which is foolish to say the least

I don't expect them to be the cheapest, and will check several sites, but from time to time, via Amazon warehouse/resale, you can get some really, really good deals. Eg, I once purchased 5L of Owatrol Oil. I got a 50% discount because the tin had a massive dent in the bottom. I only use about 1L a year but the price was too good to ignore.

 

[opps]

For a period from about April 23 - March 24 they were about £15 new, before that they were about £90, it's only recently they went up to £263ish.

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Thanks, how do you find the previous prices?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

It's a plugin on Firefox.

 

[opps]

It's a plugin on Firefox.

Cheers mate. I will check it out. Do you know what the plugin is called?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Keepa.com - Amazon Price Tracker

Amazon price history charts, price drop alerts, price watches, daily drops and browser extensions.

keepa.com

 

[opps]

Looking at your graphic, it was Amazon, rather than a marketplace vendor selling it at the low price. In a previous life I used to sell to amazon (very low volume). They used to insist that we would sell to them at prices lower than we would sell to anyone else. I doubted the legality of that, and pretty much charged them what I/we wanted. They did have a sale or return policy. We sell them a box of 12 bottles, if they sell none in a 12 month period, they could make us take it back and refund them for the whole box. There were times that I was tempted to buy one bottle just to make sure that didn't happen.

In this case, they seem to have purchased 7" disks directly and, presumably, decided that it was a poor seller, taking up valuable warehouse space

 

[opps]

Keepa.com - Amazon Price Tracker

Amazon price history charts, price drop alerts, price watches, daily drops and browser extensions.

keepa.com

Top man, many thanks.