I don't get it: Did people not see the Everyday Amazon price before pouncing on it...or is a crummy $5 savings enough to make people fall all over themselves in bargain ecstasy?
1433009
What's even more amazing is that you can still get it at 32.99 but they are showing the deal as sold out! Guess they figure they can still squeeze $5 more out of everyone.
304554
i just posted a comment on a long list of mad people about this deal and amazon has already removed the thread of everyone's comments. hiding the fact of unhappy customers i guess. its not worth waiting for these as the same thing happened last year with everything. even the ones you vote on, does anyone know anyone who actually gets picked to buy any of them? i buy stuff on amazon all the time and figure the more frequent buyers maybe have a better shot of getting picked. i mean $79 for a Wii is crazy, they could have just sold them at regular price because considering they are sold out everywhere even full price is a deal. i just think these deals don't really exist. i just posted a comment on a long list of mad people about this deal and amazon has already removed the thread of everyone's comments. hiding the fact of unhappy customers i guess. its not worth waiting for these as the same thing happened last year with everything. even the ones you vote on, does anyone know anyone who actually gets picked to buy any of them? i buy stuff on amazon all the time and figure the more frequent buyers maybe have a better shot of getting picked. i mean $79 for a Wii is crazy, they could have just sold them at regular price because considering they are sold out... » Read More i just posted a comment on a long list of mad people about this deal and amazon has already removed the thread of everyone's comments. hiding the fact of unhappy customers i guess. its not worth waiting for these as the same thing happened last year with everything. even the ones you vote on, does anyone know anyone who actually gets picked to buy any of them? i buy stuff on amazon all the time and figure the more frequent buyers maybe have a better shot of getting picked. i mean $79 for a Wii is crazy, they could have just sold them at regular price because considering they are sold out everywhere even full price is a deal. i just think these deals don't really exist. « Show Less
170601
Yeah, I bought it yesterday and today it went up $50! I hear Amazon fluctuates with their prices, maybe it'll go down in a week or so.
56763
Yes it seems something has changed with Amazon, maybe the management ,someone trying to make a name for him or herself, but i tell you what , Netflix recently raised all their prices and lost customers and their stock went down significantly!Love Amazon and am hoping these high prices are temporary as some sort of an experiment, but i can say this, in the past month Amazon has been the highest price on almost everything when i compare prices.
606284
I was wondering why myself as well. I've seen them as low as $16. Yeah the price fluxuation is rediculous. I'm sure they have their reasons, but it is irritating.
1443507
It's Amazon's best marketing tool. They set the price a crap ton higher then what it actually is, then they put it on "sale" by changing it back to the normal price a few days later and then they say you're saving the difference in money.
252908
I would guess Christmas + last minute shopping = jacked up Amazon price. I've had several things from my wish list increase, especially if they're from third party sellers.
1941593
I have been watching the price of this HDTV as well and I think that the practice of offering a coupon (which implies a discount) but then increasing the price by more than the value of the coupon is very misleading. It would seem from the comments above/below that other consumers feel the same way.
632608
Yeah, what's with the price hike? These were like $6 or $7 a week ago. Amazon's pricing sucks.
409321
Seriously? Do you not realize how many people make or lose more in an hour than what this TV costs? If you had purchased 100 shares of Amazon in May, 1997 (for about $1785) then you'd have the money for this TV now. So what did you spend the $1785 on that was so important? Would it really have been so hard to save that much up? If not, then why are you even shopping for this? Sheesh! Why do so many people refuse to be rich these days?
1278654
Just to clarify, Amazon only dropped the price temporarily as part of those post-thanksgiving sales (you know black friday, cyber monday)...it was just a holiday sale. Then back to regular retail price. Amazon had some great deals that week, along with other online shops. It was just that week though; pretty much everything was cut drastically in price if you noticed, then went back to regular this week. So it's 200 now like it was originally, and it'll stay that way for awhile (unless you shop around, some people had been selling them cheaper all along).
1737413
Very often, if you buy something from Amazon and then come back to the item listing the same day, it's up $1.00 in price. I've never seen the price increase going from the listing to the shopping cart.However, I suspect there's some price hanky-panky going on in both cases. LOL
650597
It's posted $39 off the retail. It was showing something like $3 off, but I think that was an error. Sure looks tempting to me.....
894457
Happens all the time. Amazon's price seems to follow the prices of the vendors listed under "More Buying Choices." It might also be influenced by the number of people using their gift cards. If you can wait, don't be surprised if the price drops sharply in the next few weeks.Amazon doesn't have a "refund the difference" policy, so it's always a bit of a crap shoot.
2091114
I've seen the price at 19.99 here too. I think Amazon was selling it for the MSRP, but other sellers are trying to take advantage of the current high demand. If I buy it here, I'm going to wait until the price goes back down again.
1782160
I'm just reporting back. I truly did not expect to get any special treatment based on what I had read - and I am in the south, but not a southerner. It's just that I waited 6 months for the price to get back down. And whether this plays into it or not, I have recently spent quite a few dollars with Amazon.If anyone else was waiting to buy, now's the time. Who knows what they'll cost next week.BTW Chad, how do they sound?
1710562
Matt, the price creep is really annoying! I was about to buy this thing last week for $2199, but wanted to wait till I got home because I had $75 worth of Amazon credits that I wanted to apply. By the time I got home, the price has risen by $85!!! So unfuriating! Then it dropped another $15. I felt like I was watching the stock market! Feeling like a sucker, I finally bit the bullet yesterday and purchased the TV for $2269. I'm glad I didn't wait until today because the price increased another $50! I don't know why they do this, but it makes me very uncomfortable as a customer. Will the price drop again by tonight? I feel like I'm a rat in a market-testing experiment. I wonder whether all of Amazon's customers see the same price or do some customers get higher prices depending on how often they express interest in a product by re-visiting the same page? I remember a few years ago Amazon gave slightly different pricing info to people who had an item saved to their wish lists.