Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads

Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by PKop on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @11:07AM (#17960394)

No, prices (aside from "Amazon Business" pricing which was a large internal project to achieve what you're describing but only for differentiation between business and personal purchases) are all the same for every user.

I believe most of the rationale was not wanting upset customers annoyed with getting different prices than others first and foremost, but also technically pricing system is already extremely complex and dynamic per user would add an order of magnitude to scaling challenges and viewed as not worth it.. Business pricing itself required many changes to internal system.

Source: worked in Amazon Business / B2B

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by hef19898 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:27PM (#17961659)

I heard that prices arw different for the webpage and the app in some cases. And even for Android or Apple users. Any truth to that or is it just office talk? Seriously wondering...

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by binarysolo on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:28PM (#17962124)

Amazon vendor here: pricing is not discrimated across platforms, BUT most vendors of a certain scale use repricing tools that dynamically change prices over time depending on inventory availability etc. (Think Uber "surge pricing" for products.)

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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by hef19898 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:30PM (#17962143)

Thanks for the feed-back! Never had any insight into pricing, so I again learned something!

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