The pricing robots are out in full force this holiday season, but most of the prices are going up. Last night I saw a graphics card at buy.com for $114 and this morning it’s over $200 (+76%). Earlier this week Keenzo had a 24″ monitor for $593 with free shipping. Two days later it was $629 with $28 shipping (+10%).

Just cancel the order (or return) and re-buy.

Doesn’t Amazon have a sale around July 4th?

Ahmed:

Actually, they would if the price reduction occurred within 30 days of your purchase and you brought it to their attention. Their 30-day best pricing policy is exactly that.

One of my readers had the same experience, but I guess it was more shocking than any of the stories listed above. I had the Suunto Core Steel Steel watch and somebody apparently liked it so he did check it out on Amazon and to my and his surprise the watch dropped from 750$ to 346$ in 3 days. Would you believe it ?? I can’t believe this happened myself, but I did see it happening with my own eyes. it dropped 400$ in 3 days that’s like 5.5$ per hour O_o

So, would amazon have paid the guy 400$ if he did buy the watch at the 750$ price ?? I don’t know .. but I don’t really think so ..

I just helped my parents buy a new HDTV from Amazon, and the price fluctuations was something I was worried about but found a good way of tracking the prices, so that we could go and buy it once it the ideal price we wanted.

http://apricealert.com/alert/

That website will email you when ever the price changes. We purchased the TV last week and the price has continued to drop every day almost, and I am still using the alerts to let me know when i need to call and get the price drop refunded. So far in the past week its dropped 5 times, just called Amazon about 10mins ago to get another refund lol.

I’m so inclined to agree w/ Hoo Mi, i’ve had that experience and seriously wondered if that was the case….lustfully watching the WD My Book 500gb and it went from like $99 to $130 w/ a day. (It’s now gone back down)

Who says everyone that looks at Amazon sees the same price? It could vary depending on your purchase history and how often you look longingly at the page…

Same experience with a Makita drill combo.

If the price goes up within the 30 days do you have to pay them the extra? Just wondering.

jhall, that’s a nice price for someone in the market for that Nikon. I’m not. ;)

Good comments because in all the years I’ve used Amazon, I never realized they had a 30 pricing policy. Thanks for that tidbit! I actually found some Circuit City gift cards so I grabbed it there (on sale) to minimize the total out of pocket cost. I’m in their parking lot right now; about to pick it up. :)

$800 for a camera? I need to give myself a raise!

Buying at Amazon is usually a safe bet – as mentioned, if the price drops within 30 days they’ll refund you the difference. (I’m also an Amazon Prime subscriber.)

I’ve noticed the same thing.

I use Amazon’s wishlist feature and I look at it every day or so. I’ve noticed that some items fluctuate daily while others rarely change.
I’m an Amazon Prime member, so I try to buy only items sold by Amazon so that I can take advantage of the free shipping.

I try to buy it at the lowest price, but as Chip mentioned above there is a 30 day price guarantee.

TigerDirect Has the Nikon 40 for about $350.00