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WizzleKake on Jan 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Amazon Tricks You into Thinking It Always Has ...

Amazon jacks the price around on a lot of the household items that I buy. There one item that I last purchased for $11.94. I have seen it as high as $29 and some change. Right now it is $23.94.

I've wised up to this tactic and will buy extra when the price is low enough to make it a better deal than buying at the grocery store.

driverdan on Jan 18, 2015 | [–]

Their pricing of household items is not very good. Almost everything I'd buy is cheaper at retail stores and I don't need to buy a pallet load.

rasz_pl on Jan 18, 2015 | [–]

I remember boingboing posting about WikiReader. http://boingboing.net/2013/05/07/20-gadget-contains-the-enti...

They posted about $10 device, and almost immediately Amazon pumped up the price to $30.

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