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1 HN user recommended this in 2016, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2016, in one comment.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
A couple of things to keep in mind: If you browse other listings on Amazon, there are merchants who sell on item listings for a variety of prices. Most listings are owned by manufacturers, not merchants. All of the listings you mention here are NOT owned by us, but we do list against them.
Picking one of your examples, we have the primary URL: https://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DW1354-14-Piece-Titanium-Drill...
Then we have our store's URL: https://www.amazon.com/DEWALT-DW1354-14-Piece-Titanium-Drill...
Clicking on https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0045PQ762/ref=dp_ol... results in a view of all merchants selling on this listing. We're on the second page of 3 pages (last page is empty). At $25.57 we are not the most expensive, nor the least expensive. The lowest listed price is $14.99 by Amazon themselves. They probably got a good deal on them.
As you note, there is little reason for someone to order that particular item from us, on that listing. The same can be said of "Home Plus Hardware" which is selling it for $33.71.
I would note that your final blaming statement appears to demand an explanation for something I said incorrectly. I'm not providing a blow by blow "explanation" here for our pricing, but I would point out that I didn't say we always had the best prices on all items. We don't.
I did, however, indicate that we tend to be able to find good listings using our algorithms. That's not to say we can always get good prices on the items we're selling. That's another problem to solve entirely!