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LT7A · 08-25-2020, 10:08 PM

Thanks to everyone that responded -- I have options! And an extra salute for all of the links!

BTW, I will pass along a little thing I discovered with amazon. They have been criticized for their "variable" pricing. It is "updated" 10 times a day. It seems to include an algorithm that tries to guess how much you want to buy an item.

An example: I had a couple of items up on tabs in my browser and put my computer into hibernate and went to bed. The next day I went to load up my cart and make the purchases but the items wouldn't load into the cart until I had refreshed the pages -- by which time BOTH items had gone up about 15%. Not a lot and probably geared to make me say "oh well" and pull the trigger anyway. Instead, I logged off amazon and left it for a day. Next time I pulled up those exact 2 items they were listed for LESS than they were priced WHEN I FIRST PULLED THEM UP. Crazy. Wouldnta believed it if I hadn't experienced it firsthand. FWIW.

08-25-2020, 10:08 PM	#16
LT7A Registered User Join Date: Oct 2015 Location: PNW Posts: 3,513	Re: Nutserts Thanks to everyone that responded -- I have options! And an extra salute for all of the links! BTW, I will pass along a little thing I discovered with amazon. They have been criticized for their "variable" pricing. It is "updated" 10 times a day. It seems to include an algorithm that tries to guess how much you want to buy an item. An example: I had a couple of items up on tabs in my browser and put my computer into hibernate and went to bed. The next day I went to load up my cart and make the purchases but the items wouldn't load into the cart until I had refreshed the pages -- by which time BOTH items had gone up about 15%. Not a lot and probably geared to make me say "oh well" and pull the trigger anyway. Instead, I logged off amazon and left it for a day. Next time I pulled up those exact 2 items they were listed for LESS than they were priced WHEN I FIRST PULLED THEM UP. Crazy. Wouldnta believed it if I hadn't experienced it firsthand. FWIW. Last edited by LT7A; 08-26-2020 at 05:40 PM.