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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by fjsolwmv on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:06AM (#18226991)
Where are you shopping? That's 4.99euros, the price at Amazon .es and .fr, even though it's $3.03USD in USA
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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by jaclaz on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @05:53AM (#18228033)
On amazon.it it is now EU 4.99, if I go (from Italy) to the original Amazoon.com page I see it as $5.77.

If I go to the same amazon.com page via a (USA based) proxy, I get the $3.03 allright.

So it must be some "regional pricing" of sorts.

IMHO sneaky and border line with dishonesty.

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Re:The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is... by ptaipale on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @06:51AM (#18228225)
Regional pricing isn't new, nor introduced by Amazon - international companies have worked this way for ages: maximise profit by doing different pricing in different markets for the same product.

Or varying the product so that it is not exactly the same: https://www.euractiv.com/section/health-consumers/news/lower...

A prime example of regional pricing was, of course, the region code system for DVD movies. And the modern incarnation of this is regional pricing for streaming services such as Netflix, along with trying to stop people from accessing services via VPNs.

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