-MIKE- wrote in news

This may also be attributed to old links and out-dated ads. Some
prices on Amazon change daily for various reasons. If one of there
vendors gets a huge delivery of widgets which he got at a great
wholesale price, he lists them for cheaper than they were yesterday
and that all of a sudden becomes Amazon's lowest price. Another
vendor had widgets for sale at a super low price and he sold out.
Well, today the price for widgets on Amazon suddenly goes up because
said vendor sold out.



Another game some vendors play is to set their price slightly higher than
the base price. What happens sometimes is the guy setting the base price
sells out, then the automated price setting tools set their price to be
slightly higher than the other one and fight their way to the top.

They want to be slightly higher because some people look to see what an
extra penny will get them. It might be something like two identical
products ship from Washington and Rhode Island and you're in Maine. An
extra penny or nickel could mean cutting several days off the transit
time. (It also lets you avoid being charged for sales tax automatically
in some states. You're still supposed to submit it anyway, but who
does?)

Puckdropper

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