Re:Why you can’t buy a thermapen on Amazon (2016)
by URSpider94 on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @02:22AM
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Amazon is a marketplace. There is no price vetting. If a third party wants to sell beans on Amazon for more money than they cost elsewhere, that’s not Amazon’s problem. They do not set prices for third-party sellers.
In fact, most of those beans are probably being drop-shipped from Wal Mart.
For items that Amazon is selling first-party, you can bet that they know exactly what all of the other major retailers are selling for, and they’ll be within pennies of their price, if not beating it.
Now I buy directly from Walmart if something's available there, because I have more confidence that their usual price controls are at work.