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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The risk from what you propose is what happens once Amazon thinks it has the market share. Do they suddenly jack up prices all around to make money? Low ball pricing is a good way to gain market share, but having gained it, you must keep it. Amazon is customer-centric. I don't see them being enthusiastic about pissing off customers by getting them accustomed to a low price then raising it on them. That's not the way you retain customers.
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Dennis
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Homed in on your last paragraph. I was thinking about buying a Makita power driver. Amazon had it for a price. I followed it for a number of weeks trying to decide if it was a necessary purchase. It was in my cart/wishlist. Suddenly, it went up about $20 in price. This was one very irritated customer. I removed it from cart and wish list along with everything else. I'm sure they could not care a bit.
Two weeks later is was back to the old, lower price. I purchased it a week later. It was almost a 10 percent price increase. No idea why it went up and then down. So, yes, they might corner the market and then inflate prices. They CAN do it - just remains if they will do it.