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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Those are just cents.
I can buy Big Name Brand bottled water here, which costs like 2.95 a litre, because it's zchpeczial. If you buy bottled water from Store Brand, you'll get it for as low as 0.35.
Even though that's a price difference of almost 10x, it's about less than 3, and I can _see_ those prices when I'm standing in front of the shelves. In my case above, it's a difference up to 84, and I have to search stores throughout Europe. Even if I find the best price/shipping cost/shipping time option (which is often Germany for me), it seems that 'best price' can fluctuate up to 24, in a matter of days.
The product I bought in the UK had been at 65 for a few days, until my GF actually decided to buy it; it was 45 for the weekend when I got it for her. Now it's back to 65 again.
In the end, I (or more accurately, she) paid 38 and 45, in Germany and the UK, for products that would have cost 119 and 89 in the Netherlands. 83 vs. 198... (even when bought in the worst case, without the temporary discounts that happened at exactly the right time, the price difference would still have been 59+65= 124 vs. 198.)
I think such price differences for EXACTLY THE SAME PRODUCT are idiotic. I positively feel ripped off with my 82 "deal" last year, even though I saved 37 over the normal price at that time.
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Let's not even talk temporary sales right now. Keep in mind we have Black Friday coming up.
The first 100 people through the door can get X for cheap, then we are sold out until tomorrow when the price will be back to normal.