27 Nov

Amazon and Browsers

Monday November 27th 2006, 11:37 pm
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Here I reported about this strange reason Amazon is giving not to show the price. Told a friend about it who exclusively uses Opera and he got something completely different:

Why Don’t We Show the Price?
The “click for price” message indicates an additional discount is in effect, and this discount is calculated in the Shopping Cart. You can see this price by clicking the product name and then selecting the Add to Cart button on the product information page. Please be assured that simply adding an item to your cart does not obligate you to buy it–you can always delete the item from your cart if you decide not to purchase it.

Here how it looks like in both browser (IE is like Firefox):


Firefox/IE

Opera

<paranoia>Do Opera users get different offers than those using Firefox or IE?</paranoia>

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27 Nov

You are so cheap, don’t show it?

Monday November 27th 2006, 3:39 pm
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Amazon is so cheap selling an Apple notebook that they are asked not to advertise it, i.e. not to show the prices?

Why Don’t We Show the Price?
Manufacturers sometimes ask that retailers not display a price if it drops below a certain amount. The “click here to see price” message indicates that the price of the item is so low that the manufacturer requested that it not be advertised (that is, displayed). In a brick-and-mortar store, you would probably have to ask a salesperson what the price of the product is. At Amazon, by clicking on “click here to see price” you are essentially asking to see the price, at which point we show it to you.

Never seen anything like that in a store that I had to ask the salesman because it was too cheap to show the price publicly. In which bad movie are they playing? Sounds pretty much like a legal thing. Which strange kind of American law will forbid them to sell things for the price they want to???

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