Annual Reminder – I built a tool that tracks herbicide prices. I ran a report comparing all “Prime Day deals” against last week’s prices. Naturally, the results were exactly what we expected: every item advertising a good deal had its price inflated in the days leading up to Prime Day. Maybe a real deal will pop up later today, but as of now, not a single herbicide being tracked is cheaper than it was a few days ago.
This is the common practice for any big sale. These places all learned from Kohls, who does this on every sale… Inflate prices 20-30% in a few weeks prior to a big sale…where they mark it all down 10-15%…lol
If people don’t know, CamelCamelCamel is the best Amazon price checker and tracker for anything…I use it for almost every buy…lol
TheBackpacker
Checked on some car detailing supplies this morning using camelcamelcamel and they were “on sale” yet somehow at the highest cost in Amazon recorded history 🤣 be cautious
TBaggins_
Noticed Amazon removed their built in price history tool today. Not surprised.
myspacetomtop5
I use lamalamalama to track prices too
One Amazon prime deal in my “save for later” was reduced by 0.01 and called a prime day deal.
Work45oHSd8eZIYt
Fam that’s true of literally all Prime Day deals. It’s just a way to advertise
Azmasaur
This has been the case with Amazon for at least several years across the whole website. That plus it slowly turning into an aliexpress reseller service with faster shipping.
Price checker extensions help, and service is surprisingly good for shipping, returns, etc the site has just lost the premium vibe it used to have 10+ years ago when it primarily catered to upper middle class consumers with name brand products and premium shipping speeds. Once you are a trillion dollar company you can’t keep growing without expanding target demographics I guess.
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Annual Reminder – I built a tool that tracks herbicide prices. I ran a report comparing all “Prime Day deals” against last week’s prices. Naturally, the results were exactly what we expected: every item advertising a good deal had its price inflated in the days leading up to Prime Day. Maybe a real deal will pop up later today, but as of now, not a single herbicide being tracked is cheaper than it was a few days ago.
Price history example https://lawnbeast.com/herbicide-finder?herbicide=triclopyr-ester
Tool – https://lawnbeast.com/herbicide-finder
This is the common practice for any big sale. These places all learned from Kohls, who does this on every sale… Inflate prices 20-30% in a few weeks prior to a big sale…where they mark it all down 10-15%…lol
If people don’t know, CamelCamelCamel is the best Amazon price checker and tracker for anything…I use it for almost every buy…lol
Checked on some car detailing supplies this morning using camelcamelcamel and they were “on sale” yet somehow at the highest cost in Amazon recorded history 🤣 be cautious
Noticed Amazon removed their built in price history tool today. Not surprised.
I use lamalamalama to track prices too
One Amazon prime deal in my “save for later” was reduced by 0.01 and called a prime day deal.
Fam that’s true of literally all Prime Day deals. It’s just a way to advertise
This has been the case with Amazon for at least several years across the whole website. That plus it slowly turning into an aliexpress reseller service with faster shipping.
Price checker extensions help, and service is surprisingly good for shipping, returns, etc the site has just lost the premium vibe it used to have 10+ years ago when it primarily catered to upper middle class consumers with name brand products and premium shipping speeds. Once you are a trillion dollar company you can’t keep growing without expanding target demographics I guess.