Do Amazon prices go down once an item goes live?

[skatalite]

I want to get "The Hurt Locker" and "Moon" next week. If I preorder now via Amazon, it'll be around $50. But does Amazon usually lower prices the day of release, or even a couple days after release date? If I can save $10, I'd opt for that.

Thanks!

[bboisvert]

If Amazon lowers the price anytime between now and release day (*including* release Tuesday), they'll credit you the difference.

In my experience, the price may drop on release day (and you'll get that $$ back), but it's unlikely to drop further within a couple of days. But it's random... just checking the price fluxation graphs here on this site shows that tracking prices on Amazon is much like tracking stocks. Lots of changes and no real way to predict.

[masoud90]

Yeah sometimes they do drop without any reason 2-3 days after release day, but this happened during the holiday season, so...

They do honor their price guarantee though. Their customer service is amazing.

[csdot]

as said before if anything itll drop on release day, but usually after that they tend to go up. i would guess within a couple weeks to a month theyll be 19.99 or less though.

[skatalite]

Originally Posted by masoud90

Yeah sometimes they do drop without any reason 2-3 days after release day, but this happened during the holiday season, so...

They do honor their price guarantee though. Their customer service is amazing.

So, if I preorder from Amazon and it's $50 for the two, then three days later after release it's $40 for the two, do they offer a price match and refund me the difference? I'm trying to search their site to see if they have something similar to a 30-day price match guarantee, but no luck so far.

Thanks again, everyone!

[JJ]

No, but I feel like prices will go back up now that the holiday season is over.

[csdot]

the guarantee is only up until the release day. if it goes down the very next day you sol

[quirkmanly]

Originally Posted by skatalite

So, if I preorder from Amazon and it's $50 for the two, then three days later after release it's $40 for the two, do they offer a price match and refund me the difference? I'm trying to search their site to see if they have something similar to a 30-day price match guarantee, but no luck so far.

Thanks again, everyone!

No, not anymore. They used to have a 30 price guarantee, but that was killed off a year or so ago.

[Clark Kent]

Having ordered hundreds of items off Amazon in the past decade, it does not pay to pre-order from them unless you jump on a pricing mistake when the listing is first made. I would counsel you to wait at least one day after the movies are released. Amazon often price matches on release date the sales of Target and Best Buy.

With no post-order price guarantee anymore, pre-ordering from Amazon benefits no one but their profits now. Patience is a virtue...

[csdot]

well thats not entirely true. t4 and hangover were 16.99 a month before they came out and ended up being 15.99 each on release day. now they are both like 20 bucks. so if you didnt preorder you missed out.

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by skatalite

So, if I preorder from Amazon and it's $50 for the two, then three days later after release it's $40 for the two, do they offer a price match and refund me the difference? I'm trying to search their site to see if they have something similar to a 30-day price match guarantee, but no luck so far.

Thanks again, everyone!

THERE IS NO PRICE MATCH GUARANTEE ONCE YOUR ORDER SHIPS!!!

I've tried several times to get the price difference on a change in price within 12 hours of my order having shipped. This means that (as an example) in a single day, at 12pm my item shipped. At 7pm the price changed. At 9pm I e-mail them to get an adjustment. Each time they refer me to their price guarantee policy and tell me that there is no way for them to credit me for a the difference since it has reached the "shipped" status.

[KilloWertz]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

Having ordered hundreds of items off Amazon in the past decade, it does not pay to pre-order from them unless you jump on a pricing mistake when the listing is first made. I would counsel you to wait at least one day after the movies are released. Amazon often price matches on release date the sales of Target and Best Buy.

With no post-order price guarantee anymore, pre-ordering from Amazon benefits no one but their profits now. Patience is a virtue...

You are right to an extent, but that's not always the case. I pre-order if a movie I want is in my Gold Box. That method worked great during the holiday season as the prices were already about as low as they were going to do, and then I got the Gold Box discount too. You obviously have much more experience with Amazon than I do though. I was just trying to make a point that it doesn't hurt to pre-order sometimes.

[Minimejer05]

Ive noticed that they drop the price for titles a few days before the release or sometimes the week before. Luckily I have a 50 dollar gift card as I to plan on ordering both of those titles. I think I only have to pay like 58 cents out of my own pocket. But lets hope each title drops to 20-22 each.