Price changes What's up with Amazon's price increases? This was $329 last night when I added it to my wish list ... this morning it's $520? It's $349 at Costco.com. Amazon needs some better price management. Price changes What's up with Amazon's price increases? This was $329 last night when I added it to my wish list ... this morning it's $520? It's $349 at Costco.com. Amazon needs... » Read More Price changes What's up with Amazon's price increases? This was $329 last night when I added it to my wish list ... this morning it's $520? It's $349 at Costco.com. Amazon needs some better price management. « Show Less
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These are $379 at Staples, not including a $25 coupon if they deliver it to your home or business (free) less $50 for a trade-in of an old printer. Total cost = $304 plus tax. How Amazon is at $520 for this is beyond me.
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It' $297 right now on Amazon. I've been watching it for a while and this is the lowest that I've seen it so far. (Price includes a $50.00 instant rebate from Brother.)
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Same here, I am watching the prices too, almost pulled the trigger on the $1249 price but got greedy I guess. I just found this other site a few days ago, not sure if anyones already posted this but go to http://priceprotectr.com/ and follow the directions and it'll email you when prices drop at retailers online sites including amazon. Not sure how accurate or timely it is but I'm trying it anyway since its free.
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Matt, the price creep is really annoying! I was about to buy this thing last week for $2199, but wanted to wait till I got home because I had $75 worth of Amazon credits that I wanted to apply. By the time I got home, the price has risen by $85!!! So unfuriating! Then it dropped another $15. I felt like I was watching the stock market! Feeling like a sucker, I finally bit the bullet yesterday and purchased the TV for $2269. I'm glad I didn't wait until today because the price increased another $50! I don't know why they do this, but it makes me very uncomfortable as a customer. Will the price drop again by tonight? I feel like I'm a rat in a market-testing experiment. I wonder whether all of Amazon's customers see the same price or do some customers get higher prices depending on how often they express interest in a product by re-visiting the same page? I remember a few years ago Amazon gave slightly different pricing info to people who had an item saved to their wish lists.
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Same thing happened to me this week. On Tuesday I put it in my cart at $349.00. On Wednesday I went to purchase and the price was $399.00. I didn't know what to do so I decided to wait. On Thursday I checked and the price was $349.00 again, so I jumped on it. I would suggest waiting, however I have no idea why the price fluctuates so much. Good luck!
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I got mine from Amazon last week for 1249, best price ive seen. Last night it was ~1450, now its 1379. I was surprised by how often Amazon changed the prices.
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I have seen price change on Amazon, but not like what you are stating! Amazon should answer this.
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Are you guys new here? Amazon prices fluctuate more than grocery stores. Go to camelcamelcamel.com and put in the URL of whatever product, and see the fluctuations...
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that's how Amazon works. put a big variety of items in your cart, and remove them, so they'll be 'Saved for Later'. most every time you look at your cart you'll get a message about something going up 22 cents or down 39 cents or up $3 or something. even more interesting - check out a website called camel camel camel, which tracks the prices of most everything on amazon and graphs changes over time.
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Yeah, I bought it yesterday and today it went up $50! I hear Amazon fluctuates with their prices, maybe it'll go down in a week or so.
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That's Amazon's Price. Click the "11 New From" link. They are cheaper from other retailers.
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Because prices on Amazon constantly fluctuate. The main provider can and do change their prices based upon numerous things/ What you do is put the item of interest in your cart. Then check your cart once a day. It often goes down. But you find if you are patient it goes down even further. It's the Amazon price game. They are not in control of all these things. Maybe some. It really is a game for your patience and guessing. Like gambling with you $20. I've left things sit in my cart for months!
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It's up to $199.00 now.. I can't believe this of Amazon, I've always trusted them - this place is getting as bad as Ebay!!
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I have contacted both Amazon (three times) and also the seller regarding this. The seller claims that Amazon set the price at $10,000.00 when they temporarily ran out of the item. Amazon informs me that sellers normally set their own prices and that this price is an obvious error which will be taken care of (hasn't yet). As someone who shops on Amazon weekly and occasionally uses 1-click, I know for certain this is not how out of stock merchandise is normally listed or priced by Amazon or its sellers. Usually sellers use the inventory feature which notifies customers they're "temporarily out of stock", and they can even include the "notify when available" option. Since Amazon offers the 1-click purchase feature, pricing out of stock items in this way seems like questionable business practice. I advise shoppers to be extremely aware of the prices on items while shopping on Amazon. This is an item I've been wanting to try for a while. It was in my shopping cart when I noticed the price change a while back. I had planned to place an order once the price was corrected, but I have yet to receive a satisfactory resolution from Amazon or the seller. Amazon told me they've opened an investigation and will get back to me within 48 hours. That was a week ago. I can only conclude that Amazon is no more bothered by this than the seller is.
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I must agree, the pricing is all over the map. I often leave items in my cart (the "save for later" function) and doing that I get to easily track price changes that occur over time. I've noticed many items on Amazon fluctuate on an almost daily basis by a few cents to a few dollars. However this printer seems to experience huge swings in pricing - it was $680 yesterday, today's it's down to $599.
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Costco has it at $225. Latest Costco price at warehouse starting 01.01.13 has a $50. price reduction!!Terry-Medford
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C. Cole - Did you get it at the 1139 price? I believe Amazon has raised its price now. Shows a MAP of 1439.
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I noticed the same thing. The true answer is...because they can. Amazon probably noticed a trend in purchase and decided to raise the price, although, I can't say that for sure.