One of the many annoying things about Amazon these days

[Carson Dyle]

I have a couple dozen items in my shopping cart "saved for later". Maybe I'll buy them, probably not. Sometimes I catch a great deal and jump on it. Usually, if I really need something, it's cheaper to buy it elsewhere.

So, I have this stir fry pan in my cart. It's been there for many months, and nearly every time that I check the cart, the price changes... by 1 cent. Goes up a penny, down a penny. It had actually stopped for a couple of weeks, but I happened to look at the page last night. So here we go again...

1 item in your Saved Items has changed price.

• Circulon Contempo Hard Anodized Nonstick 12-inch Stir Fry Pan has decreased from $37.39 to$37.38

 

[CraKaJaX]

Just start a wish list and add it there. You'll see the % increase/decrease rather than the dollar amount. You can also set up alerts that will let you know something in your list has changed price.

 

[Svnla]

This is a little titbit. You can have up to 600 items in your save for later cart. If you have over 600 items, the oldest (at the bottom) will be remove from the save for later cart.

 

[gorcorps]

This is a little titbit. You can have up to 600 items in your save for later cart. If you have over 600 items, the oldest (at the bottom) will be remove from the save for later cart.

tidbit

but maybe your mind is somewhere else =P

 

[Red Squirrel]

From what I heard it's a trick they use to try to get you to buy it. If you see it go up by a few cents you might think it's going to keep going up so you'll buy it.

Best bet is save the link and put it in a local text file. I recall hearing something where the price you see on an item may not be the price others see, but not sure if that's true. Seems that would be super sketchy.

 

[Carson Dyle]

This is a little titbit. You can have up to 600 items in your save for later cart. If you have over 600 items, the oldest (at the bottom) will be remove from the save for later cart.

I wish you could reorder them. It would take 20 minutes to scroll down through 600 items the way the shopping cart page works now.

 

[pcslookout]

Why not just use keepa.com or camelcamelcamel.com ?

 

[DaveSimmons]

You poors needing to put off purchases until later. so sad. I just buy another house when I need more space to store all of my junk from Amazon.


(Not really.)

 

[repoman0]

You poors needing to put off purchases until later. so sad. I just buy another house when I need more space to store all of my junk from Amazon.


(Not really.)

LOL, I think there is actually someone on here who claims he does just that. Seems pretty damn stupid to me .. guess I must be a poor

 

[Carson Dyle]

LOL, I think there is actually someone on here who claims he does just that. Seems pretty damn stupid to me .. guess I must be a poor

Ever watch Hoarders? It's kind of like watching Cops without the wife beating and cops chasing down teenagers with joints in their pockets. People living in a cot in the garage because the house is full of canned tuna fish that was on sale in 1988 and baby clothes they bought for their grandkids who are now in their 30s. Weird shit. Saw one where the house had to be condemned because it was collapsing under the weight of all the useless crap inside.

 

[microAmp]

1) Create an account at http://camelcamelcamel.com/.

2) Set a price of what you're wanting to buy it at, use price history to see if it will ever do it.

3) Camel will email you when it hits that price point.

4)....

5) Profit?

 

[darkswordsman17]

I'm not really sure what you're annoyed at with regards to that? Are they sending notifications for that now or something? Because otherwise you'd only see that if you look at your cart and I want them to notify me of price changes (I've had stuff in my cart and the price changed). And like others said there's other ways to manage that if its stuff you're not really considering but kinda want to keep an eye on.

Ever watch Hoarders? It's kind of like watching Cops without the wife beating and cops chasing down teenagers with joints in their pockets. People living in a cot in the garage because the house is full of canned tuna fish that was on sale in 1988 and baby clothes they bought for their grandkids who are now in their 30s. Weird shit. Saw one where the house had to be condemned because it was collapsing under the weight of all the useless crap inside.

My grandmother was a hoarder. She started with a trailer house on my great grandparents lot, filled that full of junk so she moved into another trailer, until that one got full of junk, and then to a third one. And that was was full of junk but she didn't have money to get a new trailer at that point, so she kinda kept it livable. Then my great grandparents passed and she moved into their house. It didn't help that my great grandpa pretty much enabled it (the house was full of stuff before he passed). Every so often people would go there and help them sort through stuff and get rid of trash and make the place more livable. But it was futile as it would just pack back up. Oh, forgot to mention they ran out of room inside so they started hoarding plastic totes, and then started filling those up and storing them outside. One of the times we were there, they found like whole cases of canned food from like the 80s. After my grandmother died they somewhat went through things (mostly hoping to get major stuff like paperwork and pictures or anything that might be valuable like my grandpa's guns and some other things), but it was almost all junk.

 

[Carson Dyle]

1) Create an account at http://camelcamelcamel.com/.

I use CamelCamelCamelCamelCamelCamelCamel. Doesn't catch every price drop. Sometimes I notice things that drop way below my subscribed camel price, but just for a brief period, and I never get an email.

I also just want to have a place to stash things I might buy in the future. But seriously don't give a shit when a price falls by 12 cents, or goes back up 17 cents, or down 2 cents, and back up and down and up again.

 

[shortylickens]

thats not a "these days" situation.

Amazon has been actively tweaking prices since the day they stopped exclusively dealing in books.
They're famous for it.
Am kinda surprised you just discovered it now.

 

[feralkid]

This "annoys" you?

Hell if I were twenty years younger, I'd take a flame thrower to that place.

 

[purbeast0]

I don't even follow what the OP is annoyed about.

 

[Exterous]

This "annoys" you?

Hell if I were twenty years younger, I'd take a flame thrower to that place.

I'd settle for having invested earlier

 

[dullard]

Why not just use keepa.com or camelcamelcamel.com ?

1) Create an account at http://camelcamelcamel.com/

I do use camelcamelcamel.com, but it is massively annoying.
1) It often doesn't notify you of price drops, even if you have signed up that specific product for alerts and the price drops below your set price.
2) There are many, many steps involved in setting up an alert and then more to unsubscribe from the alert.
3) More than 90% of the time that I get an alert and I go to Amazon within minutes, the price is not below the alert price.
4) The item might not have enough of a cost to get free shipping when you do get the alert, so you need to have something else saved up to buy anyways with a moments notice before the good price goes away.

CamelCamelCamel is great to know if the current price is fine or terrible. Beyond that it just doesn't work well.

 

[dullard]

I don't even follow what the OP is annoyed about.

It is convenient to store things in Amazon's cart. You can use the cart when you are comparing items but need to leave and come back. You can use the cart to store items to get free shipping when you don't have enough in one order for the free shipping. You can use the cart to wait until prices drop and then buy. You can use the cart to store items to time the delivery date to when you will be home to accept the shipment (or your family member won't be home to accept their birthday present). Etc.

It just is mildly annoying to get alerts that the price has changed, you go look at it, and find out that the price changed by a penny. It would be much nicer to the user if you could set a minimum before you were alerted to price changes (such as 5 cents). As then you are only alerted to things that actually deserve your attention.

 

[purbeast0]

It is convenient to store things in Amazon's cart. You can use the cart when you are comparing items but need to leave and come back. You can use the cart to store items to get free shipping when you don't have enough in one order for the free shipping. You can use the cart to wait until prices drop and then buy. You can use the cart to store items to time the delivery date to when you will be home to accept the shipment (or your family member won't be home to accept their birthday present). Etc.

It just is mildly annoying to get alerts that the price has changed, you go look at it, and find out that the price changed by a penny. It would be much nicer to the user if you could set a minimum before you were alerted to price changes (such as 5 cents). As then you are only alerted to things that actually deserve your attention.

I sometimes keep items in my cart and I've never once gotten a notification or email about prices changing. Perhaps it's a setting you can turn off?

 

[clamum]

I've seen the thing the OP is talking about, though I use the Wishlist rather than Cart if I wanna save stuff. I think it's kinda dumb when it's only a percent or pennies, but it is kinda nice when you see stuff has dropped by a good amount (I just looked over my Wishlist and was surprised at some of the drops I saw, like 15, 30, 33%) but I definitely don't get annoyed by it, nor really think about it for that matter.

Also like someone else said Camelcamelcamel is very helpful and gives you more history than just the single number/percent that Amazon provides.

 

[clamum]

I sometimes keep items in my cart and I've never once gotten a notification or email about prices changing. Perhaps it's a setting you can turn off?

I would think it is a setting, though I don't remember turning that sort of thing off. I never get emails or alerts either, from items in my Wishlist or Cart.

 

[dullard]

I sometimes keep items in my cart and I've never once gotten a notification or email about prices changing. Perhaps it's a setting you can turn off?

Add a used travel book. It'll change price almost daily.

As far as I know it isn't an email. But, when you go to Amazon your cart has that notification there, tantalizing you to see whether the price changed much. You click on it and see the price changed just by one penny. Same when actually ordering, you get a notification that the price is different than when you added it to your cart. Click on it, and you again see just a penny change. It is just a mild annoyance. But it does get my hopes up and dashes them again and again.

 

[FeuerFrei]

With stuff on your Wish List you might want to add a comment containing the item's price when added. Amazon won't notify you of price increases (only decreases) - so it's up to you to keep a record of initial price.

... But, when you go to Amazon your cart has that notification there, tantalizing you to see whether the price changed much. You click on it and see the price changed just by one penny. Same when actually ordering, you get a notification that the price is different than when you added it to your cart. Click on it, and you again see just a penny change. It is just a mild annoyance. But it does get my hopes up and dashes them again and again.

Classic psychological torture technique - give the prisoner hope of release, then take it away.

 

[darkswordsman17]

Add a used travel book. It'll change price almost daily.

As far as I know it isn't an email. But, when you go to Amazon your cart has that notification there, tantalizing you to see whether the price changed much. You click on it and see the price changed just by one penny. Same when actually ordering, you get a notification that the price is different than when you added it to your cart. Click on it, and you again see just a penny change. It is just a mild annoyance. But it does get my hopes up and dashes them again and again.

I still don't get any annoyance about that. For me, it literally shows exactly how much the prices changed right there in the notification and it changing slightly in no way really impacts me let alone bothers me.

Like others have said, put it on your wishlist instead.