What is with Amazon's Toy Prices? I have been toy shopping on Amazon the past several days and have watched the prices go up, up, up! "Catch Phrase" is $109?? The prices are outrageous!
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Like Trent said, that is what happens. You can purchase the game in the store, I've seen plenty at around the retail price (usually $23 or so).
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Elizabeth. Those high prices are not actually "Amazon's" prices. Those are the resellers that sell on Amazon. When you see those high prices like that, it means that Amazon is out of stock and their resellers have them in stock for those prices
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Why has Amazon's price rocketed? Wallycom is still selling them for $298. They were in stock there a few days ago, but are now out. I don't understand the panic just yet.
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The price is not amazons. (you can see the store name above the add it to cart button).Amazon allows private sellers to list on there, whether it is a store or just someone selling it from home. Amazons fees for listing a product are so high, that's why i think they listed it for so much. I would check on ebay, they are selling for $49.99 on there right now.
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They cancelled my order today. I bought mine for 99.99, and it's up for sale for $129 now. So it's available but just not at the price they quoted me weeks ago??!?!? What the hell? Thanks Amazon for making my Xmas shopping more complicated!
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I notice that Amazon has two vendors selling the Mark IV for $6600. I am a big Amazon Fan however I believe they do themselves a disservice by listing Scalpers (neither of which I've ever heard of) selling the product at $1600. above suggested retail. Three months from now they'll be selling for $200.00 below suggested retail. In any event I am patiently waiting for my number to come up. Sure would like to hear from others on the "Wait" list and those with recent arrivals.
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Thanks G. Mercado, I did notice that it wasn't actually Amazon itself selling at the higher price. I was just referring to the extra $200.00 profit that Toyzz was trying to make. I seriously thought it was a misprint as I would hope people are not that desperate for TC. I know I am not!
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I agree with Victoria Adam's post 100%. What everyone must realize is that Fisher Price is a fabulous company who makes fantastic toys... they are not the cause of this sudden price leap. They retailed the toy for approximately $40... greedy !@#)$ bought large numbers of the toy as Victoria mentioned, before the general public could get their hands on them. This is unethical. It puts strain on the company to produce more... can inevitably cause the market to be "flooded" at Christmas due to the apparently high demand... and still children who want this toy won't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting one for Christmas... Merry Christmas! I agree with Victoria Adam's post 100%. What everyone must realize is that Fisher Price is a fabulous company who makes fantastic toys... they are not the cause of this sudden price leap. They retailed the toy for approximately $40... greedy !@#)$ bought large numbers of the toy as Victoria mentioned, before the general public could get their hands on them. This is unethical. It puts strain on the company to produce more... can inevitably cause the market to be "flooded" at Christmas due to the apparently high demand... and still children who want this toy won't stand a snowball's... » Read More I agree with Victoria Adam's post 100%. What everyone must realize is that Fisher Price is a fabulous company who makes fantastic toys... they are not the cause of this sudden price leap. They retailed the toy for approximately $40... greedy !@#)$ bought large numbers of the toy as Victoria mentioned, before the general public could get their hands on them. This is unethical. It puts strain on the company to produce more... can inevitably cause the market to be "flooded" at Christmas due to the apparently high demand... and still children who want this toy won't stand a snowball's chance in hell of getting one for Christmas... Merry Christmas! « Show Less
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I agree wholeheartedly. I don't understand the price difference. I went out and bought it at my local Walmart for $3.87. If Amazon came anywhere close to that I would order it from them, but I can't justify the price right now.
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Amazon has been showing various prices over the past two weeks or so. At the moment it is full price but, for a period, they showed a price of $249.99, slightly higher than the pre-order price of $243.99. I pre-ordered and posted the original comment in this thread. To update my situation, Amazon delivered my unit last Friday (8/28/09). It sounds great and was worth the wait.
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Then how do you explain people buying up all the Wii's and then selling them at $100 or more over MSRP? I'm sorry but these sellers are GREED merchants. But obviously there are some customers willing to support that greed. Wise up. Amazon shouldn't give these people a place to peddle their greed. We don't need Amazon to tell us where to find these overpriced Blu-ray players. Amazon could tell us when they expect to receive the new BD60/BD80. That's a service we can use.
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I have been watching this product everyday for weeks now. I have seen the price all over the place. I did see it one day for $99.00. I should have ordered it then! Right now, the price is at $159.00. I have seen it up over $400.00. I just dont understand why the price fluctuates so much day to day. I still think $159.00 is high. I really wouldnt pay over $159.00... is there another special present your daughter might like? I told my daughter that I will watch the price and maybe order it after Christmas. I told her that "I" wanted to get it for her (instead of Santa). Good luck. I hope it works out for you
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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 agree that this TV is excessively priced, especially since this is an old model as pointed out by Shaq. I don't understand Amazon's strategy. If they are sitting on a bunch of old TVs in their inventory, why don't they price them with a true sales price ?? Like in the week before the Super Bowl for example ?? Just a suggestion... I know I would consider buying it then !!
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UPDATE: What's going on here!?! When I first answered the question from Karen L. (on Sunday afternoon) I thought that maybe she meant $29.00 or some other spotlight entirely. Nope, $ 219.00 it is. At around 3:00 a. m. on Monday morning, I went back to the site at Amazon. This time there was no record of me having purchased these spotlights. What I bought, and what Karen L. is asking about, ARE THE EXACT SPOTLIGHTS!!! Why they now cost almost 10 times more, I have no idea. I didn't find ANY spotlights that were this expensive. Can anyone out there explain this?
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hi becca - i know my price has been the same on the amazon -i am an individual seller on amazon - i don't know why amazon changes their prices so frequently unless it's one of their lightning deals - as for the difference in price, it's up to the manufacturer --my assumption would be that some may consider this toy as a "girl" toy and sell more quickly than the blue one - i assume amazon has alot more stock on the blue one in their inventory - i hope this helped - thank you for asking and have a nice holiday season
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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.
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Yes it seems something has changed with Amazon, maybe the management ,someone trying to make a name for him or herself, but i tell you what , Netflix recently raised all their prices and lost customers and their stock went down significantly!Love Amazon and am hoping these high prices are temporary as some sort of an experiment, but i can say this, in the past month Amazon has been the highest price on almost everything when i compare prices.