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delegatedpowers

Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker With Clock & Alexa £39.99 That was 13th December  £64.99 Today (28/12/22) that's over a 50% rise.  How is this right. What's your thoughts

TimSynths

Wait until it gets reduced again.

John_Gray

Marshall McLuhan said, "Art is anything you can get away with".

Amazon prices can often seem to be imitating art...

MattMattMattUK

delegatedpowers said:

Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker With Clock & Alexa £39.99 That was 13th December  £64.99 Today (28/12/22) that's over a 50% rise.

Prices fluctuate, sometimes significantly. There are sites which allow you to see when and by how much so you can judge for yourself when the best time to buy is. 

https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/

delegatedpowers said:

How is this right.

They can charge what they want for their product, you can choose whether to buy it or not, buying that there is no "right".

delegatedpowers said:

What's your thoughts

My thoughts? Why do people type a huge amount of extra lines at the bottom of their posts creating a large dead space?

Neil_Jones

delegatedpowers said:

Amazon Echo Dot 5th Gen Smart Speaker With Clock & Alexa

£39.99
That was 13th December 
£64.99
Today (28/12/22) that's over a 50% rise. 

How is this right.
What's your thoughts

Well if you wanted it, buy it at £39.99.  If you don't want it at £64.99, don't buy it.

Snooze you lose.

Anyway according to various Amazon price trackers that thing has always been £64.99 full RRP.

It'll be on offer again, everything Amazon makes/sells/brabds as Amazon/is high profile like that goes on offer at some point.

debitcardmayhem

MattMattMattUK said:

My thoughts? Why do people type a huge amount of extra lines at the bottom of their posts creating a large dead space?

Hmmmm and then quote them so it recreates the same dead space

matelodave

As Neil says, if you wanted it you should have pounced when it was £39.99.

Pricing is subject to the laws of supply and demand so its whatever the supplier wants to charge and whatever you are prepared to buy it for and its always a gamble if you hope that the price will drop even more. I've seen prices change even during the day on some stuff from Amazon.

facade

It is the January "sales" at the moment, so prices of anything that might be in demand are high.

When the buying frenzy subsides it will likely come down again if they want to shift them.

Amazon do have some good discounts of their own branded stuff on Prime Day, around July when sales go quiet.

Cornucopia

These Amazon products are often reduced for Amazon's various promotions.   Need to buy it then.

But, in order for something to be reduced, it has to have been a higher price between reductions.    

FWIW, the Echo products are probably worth the full price, if you are using them a lot, and for a variety of uses.   However, Amazon has just mucked about with one of its Music services, which for me has undermined the usability of Echo products.

ballyblack

Buy this instead for £19 and save your pounds

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/lenovo-smart-clock-essential-with-google-assistant-10214128.html

RumRat

ballyblack said:

Buy this instead for £19 and save your pounds

https://www.currys.co.uk/products/lenovo-smart-clock-essential-with-google-assistant-10214128.html

Seconded.....I've had one of those for a couple of years now and it's been brilliant and not skipped a beat....At that price, it's a steal....👍😁