Hopefully you guys haven't stopped using newegg over those 5-6 years.
All places online did this, and do this. It can happen easiest when new products come out, and when newer products fail to meet standards or what not.
It can also happen based on supply and demand.
-Yes- The price can go from "Out of stock" 299 to "in stock" 375.
But do you know what the original price is for that unit? how much it costed them?
Perhaps They bought a bundle of this unit for 199 a piece, and sold them as a retailer to you for 299$.. They also bought some 250$ a piece bundle, and 275$ a piece bundle.
Yes. they COULD sell all bundles for 299$.
But they need to make profit off of it, and 15$ isn't profit, unless a ridiculous amount of people buy it, and they only have so many.
The "auto-pricing" mentioned, Sees how fast the 299$/199$ are selling, It calculates the approxiate Demand and reprices the current Supply based on that. (or -can- do this). Pricing it at 375$, Which is probably -still- lower than when it initially hit the market on release.
Then you take into consider of unlisted factors.
Well We've got 120 Revision 1.9 X-Units - Price 299$
down to 15 or so: - We just got a shipment in, Same unit ...wait.. no. They've released a new model, its R2.0 (revision 2.0) uhh looks like they moved the YX over to this corner and re-orientated it for easier access... Says we ended up paying 263.75$ EA for these....... *facepalm* Wait a bit after we sell outta R1.9 and we'll put it up for a new price (Makes a price scheduled in the system for 375$ to take affect 2hrs after selling out of R1.9's remaining stock (15))
You don't see what goes on in their inventory.
For all you know. Some newbie didn't pack Customers' boxes and the products came damaged, or, They -started- damaged in the box, or defective.. And Of those items, 200 were Unit-X and they needed to replace several dozen of them with the unit that was 299$.
The price raises, cause they need to make up for the loss, and they aren't a multi-billion(or trillion?) dollar organization like walmart that can afford to sell for such profit differences.
Its also not a storefront, You don't see this kinda thing in storefronts (yes you do) cause its just one store.
You actually do. Its called price ups and mark downs. They can pop up in the system at any time, though typically don't for storefronts. Sometimes dozens of items can change price at the same time, and sometimes 3 times in the same day.
But Newegg is an online site. Yea they got their warehouses where they got em. but the site, services everyone in the states, canada, and I believe, china. When Customers have defects, it affects the unit price on the site, not the store front. When a price change hits their corporate HQ, it hits the site near immediately (if not already wired to hit it instantly)
For instance, someone posted in relation to your complaints. Intel processors's Market prices were purely inFlux during that time, Going all over the board.
The "new" (at the time) 6700 came out, pricing itself at about the 6600's price
And the 6600 ended out with a price drop to about 50% of what it was during its peak of popularity.
as stated initially, New products were coming, and prices fluxed accordingly until people were like "oh, well snap, theres something -new- out"
When this happens as well... The "bundle" price part.
Bought 19 bundles of 6600 for 350-450$ a piece, Been selling them for 500-560$ the whole year.
NEW FROM INTEL! 6700! to replace 6600! =D FASTER HARDER STRONGER BETTER! 470-560$
....Its almost cheaper to buy that from someone else(retail) than it is for us to buy the 6600 in bulk(vendor)..... oh FML (note: they probably vendor'd in relatively the same, 350ish to 430ish)
Now they gotta scramble, and put price tags that make profit and sell as much of the 6600's as they can before everyone else sells theirs for cheaper, They can't return -their- product like you can, and just reorder it for cheaper. Vendors usually will not pay-out full value of purchase to retail/corporate when something new comes out or price change.
In recent, this happened to walmart and bestbuy. HP WebOS Tablet- Priced at the same price as the Galaxy tab, The HP company suddenly said at the revelation of android 3.1 and 3.0's power efficiency and etc, That they could not possibly keep pace with Android, and were pulling the plug on the Tablet. The price dropped from about 400$
to like 50$ For Vendor to Bulk-retail....Stores, Like walmart, Who had been selling it for 379-399.. had to price those units they got for 200-300$, At 100$ to even try and make up for their losses.
They were -not- even allowed to return them for 50$ a piece, let alone the original bulk they paid.
Some people bought the HP Tab and were perfectly fine with it, They spent 300sum dollars on it.
Some of those that spent 300$ Never even heard the Plug had been pulled, until they came back looking for the tablet again, to purchase it for family/friends.
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