How is it that some sellers have this listed for thousands of dollars? How is it that some sellers have this listed for thousands of dollars?I saw several listings for over $1000, one as $4640 or something like that. I've seen this in other cases including a particular seller at another site who consistently listed books at several times their full retail price.Are these just typos? Who would ever pay such inflated prices? It makes no sense. How is it that some sellers have this listed for thousands of dollars? How is it that some sellers have this listed for thousands of dollars?I saw several listings for over $1000, one... » Read More How is it that some sellers have this listed for thousands of dollars? How is it that some sellers have this listed for thousands of dollars?I saw several listings for over $1000, one as $4640 or something like that. I've seen this in other cases including a particular seller at another site who consistently listed books at several times their full retail price.Are these just typos? Who would ever pay such inflated prices? It makes no sense. « Show Less
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I agree the hoarding is bad, but it's part of free enterprise.webOS is not dead. HP never stated that it was. If it's your opinion, my apologies.
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When you live in US, it's called "GREED", ever look at gas or food prices ? , what was a short time ago any candy bar's sold at .05 is now $1.50 , thanks to GOOD'OL GREED !!
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Contrary to what people are saying about greed, this is almost always due to algorithms that sellers use to automatically set prices. If you're truly interested, you can read about it here: http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog/?p=358It's not particularly "greed", but rather the market attempting to be the most efficient and the seller being a bit lazy about checking to see if the prices make any sense.
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There is greed is just cashing on ours when people want a flashy device even thou they dont need one lol...I am one of them haha..but I just paid 150
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Yeah it is a damn shame that people purchased several of these to make money off of them. HP needed to limit them to one per buyer. WebOs isn't dead. It says so on their website.
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Evil? Come on. Hitler was evil. Child abuse is evil. People making a buck legally is NOT evil. Get a grip. It's just a gadget.Sent from my excellent 32 g HP Touchpad
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Happens with many other items. It's a free market, after all. No sane person would buy at those prices, so who cares!
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Hi, Yes, that is the way some sellers have their prices. It is the total delivered price. They do that so they don't have to pay Amazon as much to sell their items and it can be deceptive. There is no way anyone could sell these for a penny. The total price is .01 plus maybe $4.99 shipping which is $5.00 total delivered price. I give free shipping but my price might be $5.00 with free shipping. Hope I explained this ok. Let me know if you have any other questions?
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Because they are currently so hard to come by. I think a lot of the ones listed so high are trying to capitalize on a supply and demand thing. In my case, I had purchased it for this amount from an amazon seller last fall, but ended up with two come the holidays.
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Thank you for noticing! I thought I was the only one who questioned this. I would never have known if I hadn't tried to order one for my mom's birthday because she liked mine so much. I nearly dropped my teeth when it was listed at $119.00. I checked the next day and it was $249.00! In addition, there was a new seller. It appears as if the second seller bought out the first one. Other sites seemed to have their stock dried up as well. When I bought mine Amazon sold it and I used my prime membership to save on shipping. Seems like someone figured out a dirty little way to scam us. I wonder how many other low profile products are going the same way. I called customer service. I did not get a satisfactory response, so I e-mailed them just now. I hope they take notice.
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Steve, a seller can ask whatever price they wish for their product. It's up to us to decide if it's worth that price. Sometimes if you write the seller they will tell you if this is a mistake or the correct price. They're usually very helpful. Some sellers are trying to make a living and others are out to make a buck...just need to weed out the ones you don't wish to deal with.
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Hello,This product is being sold by several sellers on Amazon; it is likely that whomever was selling it previously has run out of stock... or realised that it was a mistake and corrected their price.SincerelyTarot BarnesProduct Data ControllerThe Society for All Artists
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Amazon lists not only prices for items it sells (through retail partnerships), but also from third party retailers that have entered into partnership with Amazon. Thus, when you search for an item, you might be presented with numerous offers at different prices, with different shipping, from many different retailers. Sometimes for whatever reason, one of these retailers will have the product for a really cheap price, but one that retailers supply is sold out, the next least expensive retailer will appear in the search results. I suspect that some retailer had your item for $8.22 on 1/5, but between then and 1/9 all of their stock was sold out and the $14.99 price reflects the next best price.
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Theresa: You might have placed your order from a 3rd-party Marketplace Seller, not AmazonCom LLC. Sellers set their own prices. Some pricing is based on the PT Barnum Principle vs Caveat Emptor. Cheers!
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Amazon is not getting away with it, it's one of their partner sellers. Do you know and can you tell the difference? It's not difficult. How can people continue to not understand what they are looking at when you look at a product page and it says "Ships from and sold by C4DEALZ?" Is that Amazon? No, it's not, it's C4DEALZ. When you buy here you will notice that some will say "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com", others will say "Ships from and sold by *some 3rd party seller*" and others will say "Sold by *some 3rd party seller* and Fulfilled by Amazon." The case with this at the moment is that Amazon apparently has no stock and our thoughtful friends at C4DEALZ see the opportunity to jack up the price by $100 or so and make money off the uninformed, especially in this case because even at that price it's less than buying 3 separate upgrades. Get informed. First clue, outrageous prices gouging the customer (for which Amazon actually should remove the seller as a partner) and you won't see it being available for Free SuperSaver shipping since only Amazon sold or fulfilled items are. In my case I have a gift certificate I'd like to use toward the purchase so I'm rather irritated they don't have stock but I'm not stupid enough to pay C4DEALZ gouging prices, or anyone's for that matter. Now I see that "The Toy Giant" has joined the parade of gouging sellers. They should all go on lists of sellers that we will never ever purchase from. Jeff Bezos shouldn't be allowing it, it reflects directly on Amazon.
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Amazon has a long history of outrageous MSRPs on Canon products and thereby presenting rediculous discount %s. I understand about listings being confused with foriegn currencies, etc, but ya think ya might take a quick look at the Canon website to see if you're even close? The 580 EX II is not new to the Canon product line nor is it an upgrade. I will again point out this oversight by Amazon to Amazon and probably receive the usual obigatory lame excuse. It's annoying, misleading and somehow amazing that this particular type of frequent mistake never appears to hit lower than the correct MSRP! Amazon has a long history of outrageous MSRPs on Canon products and thereby presenting rediculous discount %s. I understand about listings being confused with foriegn currencies, etc, but ya think ya might take a quick look at the Canon website to see if you're even close? The 580 EX II is not new to the Canon product line nor is it an upgrade. I will again point out this oversight by Amazon to Amazon and probably receive the usual obigatory lame excuse. It's annoying, misleading and somehow amazing that this particular type of frequent mistake never appears to hit lower than the correct MSRP!
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Angela, We cannot explain opinions of other buyers. This product comes to us directly from the manufacturer and we price it based on rank and popularity of the listing. Therefore, prices are always fluctuating to stay competitive. Thanks, Jessica Super Duper Deals
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there are several sellers on Amazon. So it depends on the seller. The cheapest price will post at the top, but when that sellers stock runs out it will be replaced by the next seller
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The price is not amazons. (you can see the store name above the add it to cart button).Amazon allows private sellers to list on there, whether it is a store or just someone selling it from home. Amazons fees for listing a product are so high, that's why i think they listed it for so much. I would check on ebay, they are selling for $49.99 on there right now.
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Gypsy and CJ, the price has already gone up several dollars since I bought it around a month ago. I considered it a very clear indicator that merchants want to get as much as they can from their stock (not limiting that remark to amazon). I also looked on other sites.. it was expensive there too, and now it is not appearing on most.
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The total price is what should look at, each seller has different shipping models that they can use for shipping, either by weight of item/price of item/or simply "free shipping", but unable to have more than one shipping model used, so when a seller who is using the FREE SHIPPING model on their account and add item onto Amazon, if isnt enter correctly it won't reflect on their listing but affects weight or price shipping models depending on what is wrong in listing. So this is why price of item itself very low, to offset large cost of shipping. Once corrected the price of item will increase dramatically to reflect true price
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On June 12, 2014, I emailed the Seller BackYardSalesExpert, and asked if $399 was a typo. I never rec'd an answer. Guess their Amazon 67% positive feedback, and lack of a response speaks for itself.
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You're looking at offerings from "third party" sellers, so Amazon is not setting the price, they're just handling the shipping of the item. I don't see any listings where Amazon is the actual seller, only the shipper, so don't blame them for the pricing, that's determined by the third party seller.