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WD 8 TB red drive dropping
On 08/05/2017 21:32, Mark Perkins wrote:
On Mon, 8 May 2017 14:10:56 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: On 5/8/2017 12:27 PM, Mark Perkins wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:36:21 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: On 4/25/2017 12:31 AM, Mark Perkins wrote: On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:29:25 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: "WD Red 8TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD80EFZX" https://www.amazon.com/Red-8TB-Hard-...dp/B01BYLY4DM/ Looks like WD finally got enough drives to fill the channel as the price has dropped from $305 to $280 over the last couple of weeks. My target price is $250 at which point I plan to buy at least two, maybe three to jump our internal backup LAN drives from 4 TB to 8 TB. Did you create a price alert, here for example https://camelcamelcamel.com/Red-8TB-...context=search or are you just checking back now and then to see the current price? Checking back occasionally. As you may have noticed, the price of that drive dipped below $250 earlier last week and shows no signs of bottoming out. Mid-week it was about $247 and today it's about $236. The price graph at camelx3 (link above) shows a steep and continuing drop. Yes, a very perplexing drop. And now, the WED 8 TB USB external drive is back up to $250, just when I was going to buy another one. The price had been down to $189. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ For that one, I wonder why Amazon jacked the price up to $391 for a short period. That couldn't have been good for sales, except for folks who aren't paying attention to price. https://camelcamelcamel.com/Book-Des...context=search Currently, as I type this, Amazon says it's only available from third parties, so maybe the $189 price will come back when Amazon gets it back in stock. Hello, It seems you are assuming that everyone sees the same price when browsing Amazon, but I was under the impression that they "tailored" prices to each customer, using a combination of cookies, IP address, user-agent sniffing, and time of day. Am I mistaken? Regards. |
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WD 8 TB red drive dropping
On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 3:16:39 PM UTC+8, Noob wrote:
It seems you are assuming that everyone sees the same price when browsing Amazon, but I was under the impression that they "tailored" prices to each customer, using a combination of cookies, IP address, user-agent sniffing, and time of day. Am I mistaken? You mean they use geo-location so somebody in Manhattan sees a higher price than east Kentucky? |
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On Mon, 22 May 2017 09:16:36 +0200, Noob wrote:
It seems you are assuming that everyone sees the same price when browsing Amazon, but I was under the impression that they "tailored" prices to each customer, using a combination of cookies, IP address, user-agent sniffing, and time of day. Am I mistaken? That's the first that I've heard of that. I'm skeptical until more evidence is provided. |
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WD 8 TB red drive dropping
On 13/06/2017 21:18, Mark Perkins wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017 09:16:36 +0200, Noob wrote: It seems you are assuming that everyone sees the same price when browsing Amazon, but I was under the impression that they "tailored" prices to each customer, using a combination of cookies, IP address, user-agent sniffing, and time of day. Am I mistaken? That's the first that I've heard of that. I'm skeptical until more evidence is provided. Here's the Wikipedia article describing the theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination Keywords are "price discrimination", "differential pricing", "personalized pricing", "first-degree price differentiation". Regards. |
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WD 8 TB red drive dropping
Mark Perkins wrote:
On Mon, 22 May 2017 09:16:36 +0200, Noob wrote: It seems you are assuming that everyone sees the same price when browsing Amazon, but I was under the impression that they "tailored" prices to each customer, using a combination of cookies, IP address, user-agent sniffing, and time of day. Am I mistaken? That's the first that I've heard of that. I'm skeptical until more evidence is provided. https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamtan.../#14eba90a5730 (~3 years ago) "Their study of 200 stores found Amazon, Staples and videogame store Steam among those varying price by geographic location by as much as 166%." https://williamspaniel.com/2015/03/0...tion-strategy/ (~2 years ago) This hardly new. Next time you walk into or out of an commercial airplane, take a look at the first-class section. Do you really think it is worth an extra $300 to sit there? Might be worth paying the extra dollars to get a non-stop fare unless your consider your time as worthless while waiting on stopovers at the airports. Business travellers will pay over $1000 more due to short notice. Their plane and crew will still be there with or without that business traveller and their engines do not consume more fuel because someone booked on the same day of the flight. |
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