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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
Is it plausible to think that in the just three days this book has been released, Amazon marketeers have learned from experience that it once took 1-2 months to get a shipment, and then took 2-4 weeks, and then went down to 1-2 days, and now is back to 2-4 weeks? No. Not enough time. So Amazon must be, hour by hour, altering the customer experience for their own strategic reasons.
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Doesn't Amazon run very sophisticated algorithms that changes prices depending on page hits, duration of on-line time, stuff like that? Sometimes I may have looked at something, come back a day later and then the price is down 10 % or so and if I don't buy it but come back again a day later it is slightly up, as if saying "you had your chance yesterday".
IOW I don't think you see those price changes limited only to Hachette, however they may have more aggressive algorithms running on Hachette items than other items.