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    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      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.

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      10 months ago

      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.

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        10 months ago

        More likely, the price changed between screenshots.

        We don’t know what the price is on the left.

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          10 months ago

          Yup. Or minimum advertised price is location bound. So the one on the right which has a location set can show it but the one on the left can’t.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve never seen it either. Might be a regional thing, as in better/worse consumer protection…? I’m from the EU.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      I can’t actually visualize what Amazon looks like at the moment I don’t currently have a way to check, but I’m positive if it shows me prices.

      I know it does because I use it to filter out the cheap crap that infests Amazon. If something is too cheap it’s not worth buying. So I always order cheapest to most expensive and then scroll down a little bit but I definitely can see the actual prices.

      I wonder if the a/b testing this if they are then anybody who doesn’t see prices should point blank refuse to actually buy anything. We don’t want this becoming common