Originally Posted by
josephstern
By the '91% off' nonsense.
It never retailed for anything close to $900.
Amazon is full of that garbage pricing, and Dan should be acting as a filter for his audience, not perpetuating that.
Long time lurker just here to reply to josephstern.
Amazon has gold box deals every day. Sometimes they are products I know will be popular such as luggage, toys, memory cards etc.
So I link to the sale page and usually do a roundup of all the products.
Amazon usually lists the sale as save up to a certain percent off. I like to be as accurate as possible with my posts so as I go through all the listings I note the highest percentage off and use that in the title.
In 3 years I have't heard one complaint about this.
Now let's take today's post as an example. The 91% off product was this
for $9.99 and it was actually selling for $130 yesterday from Amazon. As of this morning it wasn't being sold at any other store online, other than a listing on eBay for $171.
Every store that I can think of advertises sales based on the MSRP. Sure there are lots of complaints about what is MSRP recently, but for me the best way to describe a sale is using the information given to me by the seller. And Amazon is a company people trust I don't feel like I have to go to the factory in China find out the production cost and then figure out a fare price and base the title on that price. I am merely relaying information here, not creating.