This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
Non private mode on left. I am not logged in but have cookies enabled. Right is private mode.
Sometimes there are vendors or distribution rules that require that they don't post discounts publicly so people can't price match or other retailers can't demand a discount to match.
That's a weird logic. If I cannot find it on price comparison sites, the offer doesn't exist.
Well you'd be in the minority so they don't care.
It's not too uncommon for PC equipment. Back when Newegg was a good company, before they were bought out over a decade ago, there would be quite a few items on there that were like this.
That's an odd definition of non-public if the information is available to everyone. More like annoyingly public.
I reloaded the page and it showed up.
This is super common with niche hobby products I buy. Doesn’t make any fucking sense. Vendors will send out an email saying “hey we have a sale but we can’t tell you the dollar amount just the percentage until you put it into your cart.” I think it’s also common with some lines of luxury goods. You’ll find a few different reasons online if you Google “luxury brands hide price.”
Don't get that card. I used to have it but it would randomly output max volume static... Not a fun experience.
Had the same thing with a Xonar DX, probably got some permanent hearing damage from that.
MM yes. Thanks.
I’ll offer that I’ve had the DX for probably a decade and had zero trouble, but of course YMMV.
Dude it’s $3 an ounce. Totally worth it.
lol I didn't notice that.
That is just to condition you to get accustomed to eventually having to buy it first before they let you know the price.
Which again is just to condition you to accept the fact that next they will be able to increase the price on your existing completed purchase each month for rest of your life.
It's only in the best interest of the consumer, it's not an evil tactic.
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I've noticed convenience stores in my area just stopped putting out price tags.
Oh, that's illegal here. Nowadays they mostly transitioned to those wireless e-ink tags anyway.
Sounds more like an inconvenience store to me.
Amazon is a big POS
Yes, that is the purpose of s shopping website. One big Point of Sale
Go to bed Dad
No. The manufacturer has a minimum advertised pricing policy in place. Amazon has the item priced below this point. So they can only display the price after it's been added to the cart.
The neat part is - amazon is still a POS
On the right it has a rough shipping location (LA with zipcode), are you sure that's not the change?
You know maybe it's because I'm on a VPN. Testing out anti-botting methods?
Or trying to filter out price scrapers
Anti-botting or rough shipping calculations being factored in, both fairly plausible. I notice on the left it even prompts to "select delivery location" near where the price would be.
I would straight up rather not have most things than give money to Amazon at this point. They're only going to get worse.
This has been common for ages. In lots of stores.
Yeah, like, decades. It basically means whatever agreement they have with the supplier says that they can't advertise for under MSRP. This is not a thing that's unique to Amazon.
That's because of restrictions/contracts with the manufacturer. Sometimes there is a clause about the minimum advertised price. If it's being sold below that price, that's what you'll see.
However, that clearly isn't what's happening- or if it is, then Amazon is violating those terms. They are showing the price in some circumstances, but not others. That leads me to think it's a smokescreen, using the above as an excuse.
More likely, the price changed between screenshots.
We don't know what the price is on the left.
I had it worse. I needed to book a hotel for a business trip, and they offered me two prices: Either take them cheaper, but you cannot cancel or get a refund, or you can spend a bit more, and cancel it up to one day before arrival for a "cancellation fee", which amount was not disclosed at that moment.
I booked the latter one, and in the booking confirmation it said that the cancellation fee is exactly the same as the cost for the room!
That’s dumb. I used to work in hotels. We hated online bookings because of how terrible those sites handle expectations. A tip for the future is: If you find yourself wanting to take that latter option, odds are it’s the same as booking directly, price-wise. If you book directly, you’re more guaranteed and only have to deal with their own policy. Usually it’s no fee if cancelled the day before arrival. If cancelled same day, a one-night fee applies for holding the room. If you cancelled the day before, could’ve saved.
Amazon's customer experience has been on a very steep decline in the last 5 years or so. I find myself shopping more and more on Temu and AliExpress.
Why on Temu?? That is basically enabling scammers.
Just shop on Ali where you actually have some buyer protection...
Wtf is a gaming sound card!
Back in the day, they were the only way to get sound out of machine, except the internal speaker but that only said beep
Sometimes there is a minimum advertised price that manufacturers will allow vendors to sell at publicly, and the price in cart is a way that vendors get around it. If that's what's happening here, OP might be getting a really good price. I don't think this is a sinister plot by AMZN.
If you assume everything's a sinister plot by Amazon, you'll be right most of the time.
I'm so glad amazon is useless in my country due to high delivery times and fees. Local stores never vanished and their online stores are so much better.