So sorry this isn't posting a deal but I feel discussion on the general workings of AWD qualifies....
all my **** is still there, at the prices i saw last.
after having played this game for some time, I have decided that amazon uses AWD not only to dispose of returns and warehouse damaged items, but to also deal with stock overages.
I have gotten items that clearly had never been opened, and were indistinguishable from new items I had bought. they also didn't disappear from the listing after I had bought one (although only one was ever available).
did this happen overnight? while amazon clearly does dynamic price adjusting, it is possible that this kind of stock adjustments are done in batch mode in the middle of the night, when things are quieter. maybe some of those items went away because the stock had dropped back down from people buying full priced ones.
I remember back in the late 80's and early 90's, the best time to book airplane tickets was 4am eastern time. the airlines took the mainframes offline at 2am, and ran all the cancelations/route changes/seat assignment changes that had been piling up all day, and brought them back online at 4am. so all the people who canceled, or changed their seat assignments, their seats all appeared in the system at 4am. the pricing algorithms also seemed to reduce those fares, since the plane became "emptier".
there, now we are pretty far into the weeds . . . .
