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66.6% price increase in "sales"

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pdgfc
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Amazon Fire 7" tablet price early Dec = £29.99; Christmas Eve = £34.99; today = £49.99 ie 66.6% INCREASE!!

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,323 Forumite
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    Its just not on sale anymore. If a sale price was permanent or not a significant drop, it wouldn't be a sale price.
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,739 Forumite
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    pdgfc wrote: »
    66.6% price increase in "sales"
    Amazon Fire 7" tablet price early Dec = £29.99; Christmas Eve = £34.99; today = £49.99 ie 66.6% INCREASE!!

    Does it say it's in the sale?
  • RichardD1970
    RichardD1970 Posts: 3,796 Forumite
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    Pollycat wrote: »
    Does it say it's in the sale?

    No. (too short)
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,639 Forumite
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    If you wanted to buy 1 you should have took the bait when it was £30.
  • Pollycat
    Pollycat Posts: 35,739 Forumite
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    RichardD1970 wrote: »
    No. (too short)
    A subtle (possibly too subtle for some) way of pointing out to the OP that the title of his thread wasn't accurate. ;)
  • teddysmum
    teddysmum Posts: 9,520 Forumite
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    Amazon's own prices are very fluid and change according to competition.


    Suppose two sellers have an item priced at £9.50 and £15, Amazon will usually charge a price close (above or below) to the cheaper one , but when that seller has used up stock, Amazon's price will change to being near the £15 price, until a lower offer emerges.
  • theblagger
    theblagger Posts: 2,027 Forumite
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    Welcome to reality...they all do it
    I refer to my byline below ...

    Ad hominem
    An attack upon an opponent in order to discredit their arguement or opinion. Ad hominems are used by immature and/or unintelligent people because they are unable to counter their opponent using logic and intelligence.
  • Rolandtheroadie
    Rolandtheroadie Posts: 5,102 Forumite
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    Just building up the price before the next "sale".
  • The-Truth
    The-Truth Posts: 483 Forumite
    edited 30 December 2016 at 11:23AM
    It's funny how people moan about black friday sales being false because that's when this item was cheapest although the op hasn't bothered to point that out!

    And it's not on sale today either so basically the op is doubly wrong if there was such a thing! The op will be a one hit completely wrong wonder anyway.

    Here's a history of the price of the item:
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