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On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, David W. Speck wrote:
> In lugnet.market.shopping, Jeremy Scott writes:
> > In lugnet.market.shopping, Jeff Jardine writes:
> > > Big sale at amazon.com: 2¢ off the Dark Side Developer Kit. The price was
> > > slashed from $119.99 all the way down to $119.97, so you'd better hurry:
> > I have noted this before, and I thought, "why does amazon bother mentioning
> > that they have a set for $.02 off?" OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH! Ahh-STUPID-choo!
> I think it's obviously an automated process, the item was probably repriced,
> or
> recently readded to their database at $119.97. They most likely have the
> original price stored - and it automatically generates the sale notice and
> percentage. At least, that makes sense programmatically. If you really want
> to confirm the reason, e-mail them.
Rather, they store the MSRP, and calculate the percentage from that. The
odd thing is, until the DSDK vanished from stores, walmart.com,
shop.lego.com, etc. a few months ago, Amazon had it listed for ~$100, the
real MSRP. I don't recall if they really said it was discounted then, but
I suspect they changed the MSRP when they figured out that they could get
away with a 20% markup---which makes it all the more odd that they didn't
set the price to coincide with the new MSRP.
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.math.purdue.edu/~tgarriso/
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