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Amazon merchant prices - where do they come from?
Posted by Moseleymoles on 22 December 2011 - 7:09pm.
Further to my post re Balearic Beats Vol 1 yesterday, this item was available from one merchant for the not at all exorbitant cost of £149.00 used. A quick check on a couple of other CDs I have that people think are quite valuable reveals that Northern Exposure Vol 1 mixed by Sasha and Digweed is available from a dealer brand new for......£1200.00. Now this is not an obscure northern soul 45 or west coast psychedia acetate. It's a major label CD release. It can't really be worth £1200 new can it? So two questions - who sets these prices and can anybody top this amount on Amazon?
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The vendor sets the prices
...in the hope that people have forgotten that eBay exists.
Conversely...
... these days, I think many Ebay sellers forget that Amazon Marketplace exists, too... I certainly always check both before buying anything.
And yes, to answer the question, the AM vendor sets their own price, and many who have something vaguely "rare" will set a ridiculous price, presumably in the hope that some drunken browser will one day bite. Many (if not most) of the sellers I know do the opposite, and price everything 1p cheaper than the lowest price currently offered.
Having been upbraided down the pub
for having given my copy of Stuart Hall's audiobook autobiography to a charity shop, we checked Amazon. Prices ranged from £7.75 to £175...