MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: A couple of observations while at Best Buy today...

> > 1. Strange pricing. Red Dead Redemption (X360) NEW - 19.50, USED - 19.99
> >
> > 2. Near the checkout, proudly displayed among the other impulse items, were a bunch
> > of Fuel Doctors
>
> Weirdest thing I saw lately was a Christmas gift:
> - Dad likes the chef Alton Brown and his TV show "Good Eats" which airs, mostly in
> rerun/syndication, on Food Network. So I thought I'd buy him Season 1 & 2 on DVD.
> Amazon - 28.99 and 28.99
> Target online - 9.99 and 16.99
> Target brick-and-mortar - 9.99 and 16.99
>
> Someone, somewhere, is dramatically off in pricing. But considering I was to buy from
> Amazon originally before doing price comparisons, it was to my benefit
>
> What warrants 50-66% price cut in a DVD? *puzzled*

I'd bet it was Amazon's price that was screwed up. They have all these automatic algorithms that constantly adjust prices, and they occasionally go haywire. I remember seeing a blog post about a case where two scripts got caught in a feedback loop, continually bumping the price up by a few cents in response to each others' price changes, until the item, I think it was a book, was being listed for something like $24,000.