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...
Obligatory mention of camelcamelcamel.com which is a great tool to track the historical price of an Amazon listing. You can even set up alerts for when it falls to a certain price point.
YSK: Many price drops aren't what they seem... (news.ufl.edu)
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...
These must be the people who didn't know their apps were getting killed. (lemmy.sdf.org)