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Re:Amazon’s algorithm is hiding the best deal from many cust... by phreeza on Sunday September 25, 2016 @06:36AM (#12574743)
How is this surprising, given that Amazon is a privately owned, profit driven company?
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Re:Amazon’s algorithm is hiding the best deal from many cust... by bkor on Sunday September 25, 2016 @06:42AM (#12574753)
Two quotes:

1. "Amazon doesn’t count shipping costs for its own products, or those it fulfills for others, when customers rank a product by “price + shipping.”"

2. "Amazon said: [..]The sorting algorithms [..] are designed for that 90% of items ordered, where shipping costs do not apply.”"

This is not just misleading, this is a step beyond. It's a big company, it should take care of its customers and if it does not, customer protection agencies should go after it.

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Re:Amazon’s algorithm is hiding the best deal from many cust... by ceejayoz on Sunday September 25, 2016 @11:01AM (#12575610)
It's really not surprising that Amazon's algorithm takes "of course you'd want Prime" into the calculations.
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