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1 HN user recommended this in 2021, in one comment.
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1 HN user recommended this in 2021, 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.
I meant to show a simple example of how a vendor offers the same product for the same price on their own website and on Amazon. I was going to argue that they should mark it up on Amazon to encourage traffic through their own site. So I just grabbed a random item on Amazon to illustrate this:
https://www.amazon.com/Adafruit-2769-Circuit-Playground-Educ...
$99.99 "Adafruit 2769 Circuit Playground Express Educator's Pack"
https://www.adafruit.com/product/3399
$350.00 "Code.org Circuit Playground Express Educators' Pack"
https://www.adafruit.com/product/2769
$99.95 "Circuit Playground Express Advanced Pack"
Then I looked closer at the Amazon listing, thinking it odd that Adafruit would confuse the product label. I see that it isn't being sold by Adafruit. So somebody is apparently buying one product from Adafruit, relabeling it on Amazon as a much more expensive product, and misleading buyers. And that's a generous reading.
I'm not pointing this out as a warning that it can happen. I'm pointing out that I didn't pick this product to illustrate this point. I picked a random product to illustrate a different point, but ran into this. Granted, this is a uselessly small sample size, but sheesh!
One moral of this story: Always buy direct when possible. Never buy through Amazon if it can be avoided.
It irritates me to find a vendor who offers a product cheaper through Amazon than on their own website. That encourages the exact type of abuse seen here.
(I'm not ripping Adafruit for doing this. Of the pages of products displayed by Amazon when I searched for "sold by Adafruit" I didn't find any evidence that Adafruit even sells on Amazon. Lot's of other people--including Amazon--sell Adafruit products on Amazon. Somehow they can meet or beat Adafruit's price. Have to wonder how many are legit.)