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Amazon sales and prime day and Black Friday are all totally bogus except for a few specific loss leader deals. Everything else is on sale based on marked up prices

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Camel Camel Camel has good data on this for several countries. Also differs by exact model

WDBWLG0180HBK-EESN (both up)

Germany

Canada

WDBWLG0180HBK-NESN (down)

Canada

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Love how many things do this especially on Amazon. Stores have been doing it for years.

My gf falls for it a lot. I remind her it’s not the crazy deal she thinks it is. No, it’s not 50% off. It’s only 7 dollars cheaper than it’s average selling price over the last couple months.

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No, it’s not 50% off. It’s only 7 dollars cheaper than it’s average selling price over the last couple months. the marked up price, which is still overall more expensive than it was 2 months ago, and more expensive than it will be in 2 months from now when the “deal” has finished.

FTFY.

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Pump and dump!

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I’ve been looking at drives on ServerPartDeals the past few months, bought a few the past few months, and noticing a similar trend. Got 1 18TB recertified for $165, then a month later got two for $175, now they’re up to $199.

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They probably have a price bot/algorithm that tracks prices elsewhere and adjusts their prices to trend the same.

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I got my exos 2x18 for 180, it’s 280 now.

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