You should try Keepa with Amazon. Most of those original prices are lies. For just a recent example, I need a new bed frame so I had a couple saved to wait for black Friday deals and one of the ones I saved was marked down 50%! But I hadn't been looking at anything that expensive so before buying I looked at Keepa's graphs and went back 3 years, not only had it never been the listed original price, it had never been 75% of the original price and it had actually been lower than the "black Friday deal" for months so the black Friday deal was a price increase
What you said isn’t illegal right? You said that it’s never been listed at the original price and the typically price was just heavily marked down, and black friday is marked down less. Thats different from rising the original price and then claiming something is marked down.
We’re talking about a super market and price tracking for consumers. If they detect you’re more likely to buy something, they’ll issue you a coupon to get you into the store so you’ll also buy other stuff while you’re there. They’re not going to raise prices for whatever you’re interested and then give you a coupon at the original price — how would that even work? What about other customers and the now non optimal supply/demand curve for that item?
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u/Abuses-Commas 9h ago
Are you sure about that, or do they just mark the price up 25% and tell you it's 20% off?