So what happened is, I found a smart lock slightly cheaper (and I really meant $0.1 cheaper) on Amazon, compared to bunnings.
Headed in store this morning, wanted to buy 2 but only offered 1 due to OOS. They still honoured the 10% PB, no drama.
In the afternoon, not long ago, I already started drafting email to bunnings email to seek another online purchase, then I cheked Amazon, suprisingly price has gone up 10 cents to the same price as Bunnings.
How interesting!
What are you suggesting? Amazon makes their pricing decisions based on your advertising profiles, or Amazon shows different prices to different people and uses each person's advertising profiles to push prices as high as they think each person will accept?
All these big stores have an IT team that's constantly scraping each other's websites and comparing prices.
That’s what I suppose, the coincidence is after my purchase at Bunnings, Amazon somehow matches the price which was actually higher at Bunnings, not Bunnings bringing the price down.
Could be just two irrelevant incidents.
I do think they have some sort of Price Matching algorithm of some sort, since you see many times here that a price drops down for some store for some item, then a few hours later Amazon happens to do the same.
In some ways when it drops it works better for me since I have prime and can get delivery at the better price (and sometimes with actual stock). But I also worry that Amazons plan is to continuously undercut stores during sales by offering same price but free shipping with Prime, until they slowly erode the other stores and they close. Then Amazon will have its own monopoly to play with prices as they like.
It's happened in the USA where they capture something like 30% of online sales.
Then Amazon will have its own monopoly to play with prices as they like.
The hunter (Bunnings) has become the hunted.
Using this same logic Woolworths and Coles also potentially share data. If only Masters had've known about it, they might still be around.
Wait until O.P. hears about petrol stations and their pricing.
How interesting!
Potentially.
I will win lotto tonight (potentially)
Lol. FFS (potentially)
Fun fact
look inside
no evidence
thanks op
Got clickbated, potentially
Potentially
Perchance
What's your definition of fun?
Oh yeah, I forgot, I'm also potentially dating Tammy Hembrow
Ew, you can have her.
Cool.(potentially)
Fun fact …
Bunnings (Wesfarmers AU) - just bought out Amazon.
:) :) :)
[EDIT] … OP - you said you had issues in store "with a specific store" … why didn't you go back to speak to them in person about your issues.
keyboard warriors unite !
looks to me then like amazon is sharing data with
between third party sellers
between different amazon global stores
coles, woolworths
and many other retailers
Fun fact : op doesn't know what 'fact' means.
Correlation =/ causation
I can tell you for fact that they scrape competitor websites to understand what the competitive price is, that CAN result in pricing going up and down.
It's not data sharing…..