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.
IIRC in Poland all stores have to show the price from month ago to prevent this kind of abuse.
Yeah it’s a new EU rule. I can’t find that info on amazon though, maybe they still have time to implement it?
I think it’s similar in Germany. At the very least, it’s illegal to falsely claim price reduction by raising prices beforehand (I think they still do it, but over longer periods).