Curious Amazon.ca pricing

[eurovw]

I bought a couple of items on amazon.ca and went back later to look at the items and the prices had increased significantly. A 30mm Wera socket went from 6.66 to 13.45 and a Bahco wrecking knife went from 17.30 to 41.93! Canadian dollars of course, right now CDN1$ is about US$0.78. Feel like I did OK, but can't figure out what the heck is going on.

 

[Kirbot]

I bought a couple of items on amazon.ca and went back later to look at the items and the prices had increased significantly. A 30mm Wera socket went from 6.66 to 13.45 and a Bahco wrecking knife went from 17.30 to 41.93! Canadian dollars of course, right now CDN1$ is about US$0.78. Feel like I did OK, but can't figure out what the heck is going on.

I bought a set of Urrea wrenches a few nights ago for $30, and they went up to $160 right afterwords.

It feels like playing the stock market sometimes, but It's common on Amazon.
Just be careful you don't buy high....

 

[eurovw]

I bought a set of Urrea wrenches a few nights ago for $30, and they went up to $160 right afterwords.

It feels like playing the stock market sometimes, but It's common on Amazon.
Just be careful you don't buy high....

Good advice.

 

[RedneckWelder]

Amazon has a very unique pricing setup.

I've seen stuff drop stupid low. For example, back in Dec of 2013 Jackson Safety was running a $100 rebate on their normally pricey WH70 hood (normally $350-400ish).

The $100 rebate off of the list price was a good deal. Amazon was listing the helmet for a while at $220ish (IIRC). That's when I brought the helmet, and for the $120ish I paid it was a very good deal.

Then Amazon put an instant coupon on the website that you could click and dropped the price down to $112 on Amazon, and when you sent the rebate in on that you would up getting the helmet for a few bucks.

Those people got an INSANELY good deal.

Sometimes the stuff shoots up high.

To check Amazon pricing history, you can get an extension called CamelCamelCamel. I don't know if it works with Amazon Canada, though. But if it does, it will show the pricing history on a graph for a given item if you click on the button on the browser toolbar. It is a very interesting tool to use.

 

[eurovw]

Amazon has a very unique pricing setup.



To check Amazon pricing history, you can get an extension called CamelCamelCamel. I don't know if it works with Amazon Canada, though. But if it does, it will show the pricing history on a graph for a given item if you click on the button on the browser toolbar. It is a very interesting tool to use.

I just added it and it seems to work. Thanks for that! I think it will be useful, especially the price watch feature.

 

[BeachBoy]

a lot of time the price changes because the vendor changes (many vendors have the same item for sale, when one has no stock, it goes to the other one, so on and so forth)

are you sure that price change was all from the same vendor?

 

[BeachBoy]

To check Amazon pricing history, you can get an extension called CamelCamelCamel. I don't know if it works with Amazon Canada, though. But if it does, it will show the pricing history on a graph for a given item if you click on the button on the browser toolbar. It is a very interesting tool to use.

you can also pinx items with pricepinx to get alerts when price drops...

you install the bookmarklet and then highlight the price and click the button, that's it you get an email if the price ever drops. I use it all the times.

www.pricepinx.com

edit: seems camelcamelcamel does the same thing but pricepinx can do it for ANY website.

 

[eurovw]

a lot of time the price changes because the vendor changes (many vendors have the same item for sale, when one has no stock, it goes to the other one, so on and so forth)

are you sure that price change was all from the same vendor?

Good point, I have noticed this in the past. Both items here seem to have been sold/for sale by Amazon.ca.

 

[vahn]

I 've bought some goods at a certain price , and the next day become cheaper price