Re:I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played
by hypercube33 on Friday October 10, 2025 @07:18AM
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It's for the dopamine hit of "saving money" or feeling like one has, even if you haven't
Re:I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played
by nucleardog on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:05AM
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I think some of the "coupons" are only usable once, so could be a way to price more fairly when there's limited inventory or something?
Like you can buy one at regular price, but 2nd and beyond get marked up 100%?
Re:I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played
by alias_neo on Friday October 10, 2025 @10:56AM
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Ah that would make sense. I suppose if there's limited stock of them in the Amazon warehouse, it prevents people buying up lots of them and not leaving any for other people.
Re:I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played
by fragmede on Friday October 10, 2025 @05:16PM
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> Why overprice something by ~50% and add a voucher for the same amount off
Preying on human psychology and the non-rational consumer. People are emotional impulsive creatures, and the marketing department knows this. If you think you're winning in some secret way only available to you (you're so special!), for a limited time only (so don't miss out!), it taps into something primal that turns off the rational part of our brains, and suddenly we're buying something we don't need at a price higher than we'd ideally pay.
It always puts me off from buying something expensive because I wonder if somehow I could end up worse off (in terms of returns, or warranty or something) because I bought something that was X but only paid Y due to the voucher.
Realistically, I probably wouldn't buy a high-end computing product from Amazon anyway, unless is was notably cheaper than the specialists I'd normally buy from. Something like a £2000+ mini PC isn't the sort of thing the typical UK PC retailers I buy from would stock.