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Originally Posted by Tazling
BUT... I think there's a bit of upsell monkey biz going on. After selecting an initial reading list I did some searching for specific hard to find authors and titles and did find a few in KU (yay). A day later I visited Amazon.ca and found that all those titles I had found were mysteriously marked back up to full price.
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I think it’s likeliest to be bad timing as that kind of price switch is harder to pull off with digital goods, but. I know more than once I’ve run across an item at Amazon at a good price, but when I looked for it shortly thereafter, the price had gone up. Again, bad timing, except that when I checked the price on a different browser where I had no Amazon cookies, the price was the original lowball price. At that point, if you sign in, you get the lower price.
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Hmmm. That would make KU more of a marketing tool than a "discount shelf".
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Everything at Amazon is a marketing tool. Once you accept that, you’ll be happier. And why not, in fairness? Can’t expect them to be our best friend unless it’s in their own best interest. I’m quite sure that’s why I’ve never got the sterling customer service others cite; I’m just not a good enough customer.