# Are Amazon's Prices Going Up?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-amazons-prices-going-up/605071>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 4, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-amazons-prices-going-up/605071 "2011-12-04T23:11:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-amazons-prices-going-up/605071/1 "2011-12-04T23:11:13Z")

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I have shopped at Amazon for years and have noticed in the past month their prices have skyrocketed. Has anyone else noticed? I am buying the usual gifts…Wii games, CDs and electronics and the prices are getting ridiculous.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-amazons-prices-going-up/605071/2 "2011-12-04T23:16:04Z")

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It’s coming up on Christmas; the prices will creep up more towards standard prices to take advantage of the people who want to buy now but want to deal with it online. Once the holidays are past, prices will come down more again.

That being said, I haven’t seen any abnormal fluctuations in the stuff in my shopping cart (being saved for later). Prices go up and down periodically.

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**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2011, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-amazons-prices-going-up/605071/3 "2011-12-04T23:54:17Z")

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They go up, they go down (sometimes daily). Take a look at [CamelCamelCamel](http://camelcamelcamel.com/). It tracks all the history of all price changes on Amazon. You can check out the roller-coaster pricing yourself.

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**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-amazons-prices-going-up/605071/4 "2011-12-05T02:39:48Z")

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I guess it depends on what you’re buying. I’ve noticed “down” more often. I don’t think I’ve ever found better prices on anything than on Amazon.

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**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\
**Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-amazons-prices-going-up/605071/5 "2011-12-05T04:49:04Z")

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They jacked up the prices of some PC games. For quite some time, Xbox 360 and PS3 games were about $10 more than PC ($60 and $50, respectively), but console games came with $10 in credit or something like that. Now, they are more expensive, e.g. Modern Warfare 3 is $52 on consoles and $58 on PC, or _at the time of release_ Skyrim was $60 on console but $0.50 less for PC, except console had the credit.