{"id":10524,"date":"2015-01-18T13:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10524"},"modified":"2015-01-18T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T18:08:38","slug":"how-amazon-tricks-you-into-thinking-it-always-has-the-lowest-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/18\/how-amazon-tricks-you-into-thinking-it-always-has-the-lowest-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"How Amazon Tricks You Into Thinking It Always Has the Lowest Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2015\/01\/13\/how-amazon-tricks-you-into-thinking-it-always-has-the-lowest-prices\/\">Jason Del Rey<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=8907541\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/recode.net\/2015\/01\/13\/how-amazon-tricks-you-into-thinking-it-always-has-the-lowest-prices\/\">\n<p>In one example, Boomerang observed Amazon testing price reductions on a $350 Samsung TV &mdash; one of the most popular TVs on Amazon &mdash; over the six months leading up to Black Friday. Then, on Black Friday, it dropped the price to $250, coming in well below competitors&rsquo; prices.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to the HD cables that customers often buy with a new TV, Amazon actually pushed up the price by 33 percent ahead of the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Amazon may not actually be the lowest-priced seller of a particular product in any given season,&rdquo; the report reads, &ldquo;but its consistently low prices on the highest-viewed and best-selling items drive a perception among consumers that Amazon has the best prices overall &mdash; even better than Walmart.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Del Rey (via Hacker News): In one example, Boomerang observed Amazon testing price reductions on a $350 Samsung TV &mdash; one of the most popular TVs on Amazon &mdash; over the six months leading up to Black Friday. Then, on Black Friday, it dropped the price to $250, coming in well below competitors&rsquo; prices. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,101],"class_list":["post-10524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-business"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10525,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10524\/revisions\/10525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}