Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices — A new report details Amazon’s Project Nessie pricing algorithm::Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well.

  • Marcbmann@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The subscribe and save price reflects the listing price at the time your order is fulfilled.

    As a seller, the number of subscriptions evaporates if I increase the price on an item.

    What you are describing is not a tactic any business is intentionally employing. It’s more likely born of incompetence.