Searching on Amazon for cheapest option

Gaz1 on 10/12/2021 - 20:15

Hi,
Is there some trick I am missing to find the cheapest price for a product I am looking for on Amazon?
For example, if I am looking for a portable USB DVD drive on Ebay I just search for USB DVD, select "Australia only", "New" & sort by "Price & postage lowest".
Perfect - lists the cheapest options first.
In Amazon if I search for USB DVD it comes up with over 50,000 results & the first page is full of cables with only 1 drive listed (which is "sponsored & not the cheapest anyway).
I often find cheap options by choosing "prime ships from Australia" but even then it lists up tonnes of options that don't even mention DVD (first option is a SATA cable!).
I've bought many things off Amazon & I'm sure I am not always getting the best price.

Any tips would be really appreciated.

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  • RiseAndRuin on 10/12/2021 - 20:24
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    Sorting out search results is pretty easy, so I assume Amazon does that on purpose to trick us into buying more stuff we don't need, or pay more for the "convenience" of their delivery service and not wasting a lot of time searching. In my experience, the best thing you can do on Amazon is probably to search for only one very specific word, for a more complex search I just use ebay tbh.

  • aragornelessar on 10/12/2021 - 21:21
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    In Amazon if I search for USB DVD it comes up with over 50,000 results & the first page is full of cables with only 1 drive listed

    Funny that's been my experience with eBay.. Search for 128GB microSD card and you get a dozen options starting from 5c as the cheapest - but it's not a 128GB card, in fact it's a microSD adapter…

    Both being marketplaces, they're probably partly gamed by the sellers putting in search terms to get picked up and partly gamed by the marketplaces themselves to get what they want to the forefront

  • bongom on 11/12/2021 - 12:11

    I find I have better results if I use google with Amazon in the keyword search? YMMV.

  • pjetson on 12/12/2021 - 20:12

    Put a search like this into Google:

    site:amazon.com.au "USB DVD drive"

    The site: part restricts the search to just amazon.com.au and putting the search term in quotes makes it more likely that the results will contain that exact phrase.

    • Gaz1 on 27/12/2021 - 17:52

      Thanks - is there a way to find the cheapest option with this search?

      • pjetson on 27/12/2021 - 17:59

        Unfortunately not, as far as I'm aware. However, the search is much more focused, so hopefully there are fewer items for you to manually look through.

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