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.
This is good but they should also force to write normal price first because now the biggest font prices isn’t the price which you pay without buying multiple products or have membership account.
Which sadly just results in them raising prices for a month before the sale
Still better, but i would honestly require all stores to show the full year’s timeline of the price right as a widget next to the pricetag online…