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Amazon Selective Pricing Right in Front of my Eyes

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This isn't a question, but I wanted to show everyone a rather chilling example of Amazon showing me two different prices on the same product listing while using two different devices. See this link to the screen recording that I took showing the whole thing.

Quick rundown: I was looking for a dashcam and was about ready to purchase one on Amazon and so I used Firefox's neat "Send tab to device" trick to send the tab from my phone to my laptop where I could checkout with my Amazon Prime account. That is where I noticed the SAME product (and the exact same listing) was cheaper on my laptop by $8! Quick disclaimer: If you watch the video, you will see me tap "Clip & Save up to $10" while using my phone which results in me being deemed ineligible for that coupon. I believe that coupon WOULD have applied if I were logged into an Amazon account which I did not try doing on my phone. However, even if that coupon was successfully applied, the price for the dashcam on my phone would have been $89.99 while my laptop showed $91.99, a $2 difference. Yes, I know it's not a big price difference and rather insignificant at that price range, but the implications are huge. Makes me wonder just how many times I've been charged different prices on Amazon as other people...

Also, on my laptop you'll notice the product is on sale from $129.99 which is NOT the case on my phone. The price on my phone was $99.99 and that's it, no discount price or anything.

I always knew that companies did this, but I never thought I'd ever see it THIS CLEARLY side-by-side right in front of my eyes!

BTW: I was using Firefox on my phone and laptop if you didn't catch that. No VPN connected, both devices running off the same WiFi. Laptop was logged into my Prime account, phone was not.

Anyway, I just thought I'd share that here for anyone who's interested.

This isn't a question, but I wanted to show everyone a rather chilling example of Amazon showing me two different prices on the same product listing while using two different devices. See [https://drive.protonmail.com/urls/A6NPZMWQH8#CUf8vnOFOdG4 this link] to the screen recording that I took showing the whole thing. Quick rundown: I was looking for a dashcam and was about ready to purchase one on Amazon and so I used Firefox's neat "Send tab to device" trick to send the tab from my phone to my laptop where I could checkout with my Amazon Prime account. That is where I noticed the SAME product (and the exact same listing) was cheaper on my laptop by $8! Quick disclaimer: If you watch the video, you will see me tap "Clip & Save up to $10" while using my phone which results in me being deemed ineligible for that coupon. I believe that coupon WOULD have applied if I were logged into an Amazon account which I did not try doing on my phone. However, even if that coupon was successfully applied, the price for the dashcam on my phone would have been $89.99 while my laptop showed $91.99, a $2 difference. Yes, I know it's not a big price difference and rather insignificant at that price range, but the implications are huge. Makes me wonder just how many times I've been charged different prices on Amazon as other people... Also, on my laptop you'll notice the product is on sale from $129.99 which is NOT the case on my phone. The price on my phone was $99.99 and that's it, no discount price or anything. I always knew that companies did this, but I never thought I'd ever see it THIS CLEARLY side-by-side right in front of my eyes! BTW: I was using Firefox on my phone and laptop if you didn't catch that. No VPN connected, both devices running off the same WiFi. Laptop was logged into my Prime account, phone was not. Anyway, I just thought I'd share that here for anyone who's interested.

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UPDATE: The link in the previous post requires you to download the video to view, so here's a Google Drive link so you don't have to download it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/177PXoh6cYLSLHgovxEG6yGruFKovZS0M/view?usp=sharing