{"id":7059,"date":"2017-09-13T16:12:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T16:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2017-08-15T16:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T16:15:10","slug":"linked-amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-vendor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/09\/13\/linked-amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-vendor\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Amazon jacked up Prime Day prices, misleading consumers, says vendor&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2609,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.foxbusiness.com\\\/features\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/24\\\/amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-seller.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20180120011654\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.foxbusiness.com:80\\\/features\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/24\\\/amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-seller.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.foxbusiness.com\\\/features\\\/2017\\\/07\\\/24\\\/amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-seller.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 04:12:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-09 23:06:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-22 15:29:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-23 06:10:36&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 03:49:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 03:49:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/features\/2017\/07\/24\/amazon-jacked-up-prime-day-prices-misleading-consumers-says-seller.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via Fox Business<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThey showed the product at $15.42 and then exed it out to put \u2018$9.99 for Amazon Prime Day.\u2019 And on the final day, the price was like $18.44. So, we put a support ticket in right away and I rallied some friends through social media to go to their complaint board and complain,\u201d Jacobs tells FOX Business.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every retailer does this but Amazon wins because they always have the lowest price in a system that\u2019s constantly beating everyone else on price in real-time. The prime day thing, that\u2019s a horrible disservice to the loyal members. These are people who already buy almost everything from you. To raise the price only to show a discounted rate based on that inflated price should be something DOJ investigates as misleading business practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Fox Business: \u201cThey showed the product at $15.42 and then exed it out to put \u2018$9.99 for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-09-13T16:12:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"1a61dd5e-c611-4c01-ba9a-13ecce5d8d22","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-09-13T16:12:49Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AGmHdXsYRTAG6mhPszl2NIg","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-linked","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1PR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2183,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/11\/amazon-announces-cheaper-114-kindle-with-ads\/","url_meta":{"origin":7059,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 &#8220;Amazon Announces Cheaper, $114 Kindle With Ads&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"April 11, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"via Mashable: At $114, the 6-inch device costs $25 less than the current Wi-Fi-only model and sports all of the same specs. 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