{"id":687,"date":"2010-10-08T20:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T02:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antone.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/amazon-com-pricing-weirdness\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T19:40:17","slug":"amazon-com-pricing-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/amazon-com-pricing-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon.com Pricing Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw something interesting on Amazon.com today:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/blog\/amazon-price-experiment.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That's what the price was the first time I viewed this item. The second time, it looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/blog\/amazon-price-experiment-3.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The third time, it was back to $6.03 + $2.95 shipping, and the original seller. At first, I didn't notice that the seller was changing, so I figured they were just monkeying with the price to see which way customers preferred to spend approximately $9.00.<\/p>\n<p>The 4th time, I saw this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/blog\/amazon-price-experiment-2.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yet another pricing combo and a different seller.<\/p>\n<p>The prices only varied by 2&cent;, so I don't particularly care who ships it to me. But it sure was weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw something interesting on Amazon.com today: That's what the price was the first time I viewed this item. The second time, it looked like this: The third time, it was back to $6.03 + $2.95 shipping, and the original seller. At first, I didn't notice that the seller was changing, so I figured they...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/amazon-com-pricing-weirdness\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeta.geckotribe.com\/alpha-gecko\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}