Something "dodgy" about Amazon UK shopping cart prices

[#Darren]

I have been experimenting over the past week and a half.

I put a bunch of BD and DVD items in my cart, then left them there.

The overall price always goes UP, but NEVER goes down. Seems a bit fishy.

You have a 5 percent increase above initial prices, but never a single pence below....

[MifuneFan]

It must be the titles you have in there, because all of the ones in mine fluctuate up and down regularly. Nothing dodgy, or fishy about anything here.

Latest change:

[#Darren]

Yes individual prices go up and down, but overall price never drops - only goes above initial cart price.

[HDMe]

I can't say I've seen what he is talking about, but I understand what he is meaning.

He is saying that while individual titles may go down... the combination of all his titles always seems to go up.

So... while an individual item in his cart might go down, some other item (or items) in his cart are going up enough to counter that... so that if he bought the entire group he would pay more than when he initially added them.

It could still just be a weird coincidence in the combination of items in his cart.

[#Darren]

I've got 16 items in the cart, so it is a pretty large sample size.

I decided to watch this one because I thought I had noticed similar trends in the past when I left stuff in their cart.

It has now been sitting there approx 2 weeks. Always above the original price total. If it was random it would also drop below...

[#Darren]

Originally Posted by hariseldon

No, I'd actually call 2 weeks and 6 items an extremely small sample of items -- put in 20 and give it 4-6 months. It's also just not a time of the year with a lot of natural sales -- not the end of a fiscal quarter, no real Holiday sales to feed off. there are also some items that just don't fluctuate much to begin with, and don't throw a bunch of things into the basket that are already at their historic low price points.

I have 16 items. And whether it is sales season or not my experience is valid - always trending up - never down. Also, as you may know - prices for individual items on Amazon UK can fluctuate daily, and often dramatically. So while suggesting a longer period to compare has validity, it doesn't really negate what I am seeing.