Mallory McMorrow

[moniss]

10. Amazon does this as well

and if you search them multiple times for the same item they will go up on the price. Once you see the higher price if you search for it from a different device (don't sign in) you'll see the lower price. I use a particular shock absorber for my truck suspension and that was how I found out. It was not a small difference either. The normal, first price, for the shock was $69 and then when I searched later that same day they had it for $109. I called a friend and had them check and the price for them was $69 and so I had them buy it for me.

I checked the price on my device 2 days later and it was back to $69. They're trying to get you and they know that you are hot on an item when you search for the same thing from them multiple times in a day. To be fair not all online merchants do this. I've also seen Amazon do weird things with item discounts where the first time I look at an item it has a discount available and then an hour later the discount is gone. But if you check from another device the discount is there.