El... Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 I have to tell something Amazon did last year. I bought DH two pairs of jeans at a good price on Amazon. Two weeks later, they emailed me that the price had dropped before the items were delivered, but after I had paid, and they refunded about $10 a pair back to my credit card! Crazy. And nice! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 Quote The number of people with things in their cart could, especially for resellers, exceed the stock on hand. Stock tracking would become utterly impossible if putting it in your digital cart REMOVED it from being available to someone who not only placed it in their cart, but is ready to buy it. Especially as online retailers have yet to solve the problem of people who browse the site, put items in their carts, and then never return. The average cart abandonment rate is ridiculously high: https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/05/cart-abandonment-rate.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 41 minutes ago, Tanaqui said: Especially as online retailers have yet to solve the problem of people who browse the site, put items in their carts, and then never return. The average cart abandonment rate is ridiculously high: https://smallbiztrends.com/2017/05/cart-abandonment-rate.html yeah - some online retailers empty your cart after 24 hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted June 9, 2020 Share Posted June 9, 2020 1 hour ago, Tanaqui said: Especially as online retailers have yet to solve the problem of people who browse the site, put items in their carts, and then never return. So guilty 😏 4 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryl Posted June 21, 2020 Author Share Posted June 21, 2020 Well, I got busy LOL buying a few things. I hear where you are coming from. My mind just simply says "it's in the cart" and as a result would lock at that price but such is not the case. I don't know how quickly they increase/decrease prices but I no longer consider the price a "locked" price even though I feel it should be. We just received our most recent Amazon order with another one on the horizon. I have things in the cart with prices going up and down which is a distraction but I put them there to remind me what I want to order "soon" as usually I'm not ready to buy the same day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katilac Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 2 hours ago, sheryl said: I don't know how quickly they increase/decrease prices Very quickly. On some items, the price can go up and down multiple times a day. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Sometimes these price fluctuations are done by a bot - one bot might price its item at a penny cheaper than the next most expensive, or the other way around, leading to a cycle of price changes up and down the board. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kassia Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I purposely keep many items in my cart and the "save for later" section and refresh multiple times a day hoping for price drops. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 30 minutes ago, Kassia said: I purposely keep many items in my cart and the "save for later" section and refresh multiple times a day hoping for price drops. have you downloaded "honey"? it will monitor price drops and notify you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kassia Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 8 hours ago, gardenmom5 said: have you downloaded "honey"? it will monitor price drops and notify you. I did, but had problems with it (I don't remember what they were though). Maybe I should try again since I have a newer laptop. Thanks! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 13 hours ago, sheryl said: Well, I got busy LOL buying a few things. I hear where you are coming from. My mind just simply says "it's in the cart" and as a result would lock at that price but such is not the case. I don't know how quickly they increase/decrease prices but I no longer consider the price a "locked" price even though I feel it should be. We just received our most recent Amazon order with another one on the horizon. I have things in the cart with prices going up and down which is a distraction but I put them there to remind me what I want to order "soon" as usually I'm not ready to buy the same day! I find the frequent price changes annoying, especially when they’re often just by a few pennies. But that’s just part of doing business with Amazon. I do understand them not “protecting” carts, though. Really, shopping Amazon is a lot like shopping Black Friday. It moves fast and there are giant masses of people “competing”, you just can’t see them. It isn’t completely out of the ordinary for me to lose a high demand or holiday item within minutes because people checked out before me. I know Amazon has a billion massive warehouses, but they’re not actually for *storing*. They’re for getting things in and out as quickly as possible. They’d need billions upon billions of massive warehouses to do that, based on how most of us treat online shopping carts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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