Why YSK: Online platforms, particularly some very prominent offenders, may artificially spike prices before creating “discounts”. Whether this is intentional or the result of third party sellers fighting amongst themselves, I cannot say. Either way, don’t blindly purchase something because of a deal (camelcamelcamel is great to see price history if you just care about Amazon). Besides, if your sole motivation to purchase something is based on a discount, you might be better off cutting consumption instead.

Source: I run fetchnotifs. While checking the logs this morning, I was scared to death I deployed a bug to production—Nope, it’s just that day of the year.

  • Wolf Link 🐺@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It is definitely shady, but allegedly legal as long as you don’t claim that the former price was higher. The advertisement itself “just” states what the current price is, which is not a lie.

    Still totally scummy IMHO.