Ordered a S5, paid it, batch 4 which should be sent out on January 12. Price paid: 401 USD.
Now advertised on the Bitmain-site: S5, batch 4, should be sent out 12/1: 358 USD.
So basically, by paying early, I get ripped off by Bitmaintech of 43 US$?
Nice move. Really nice move.
In case you haven't noticed, stores (of all kinds, everywhere) change the price of their products constantly. Why should Bitmain be any different? When did they make any price guarantees?
Is this so? Never noticed this before, thanks for mentioning it.
Amazon is one store that changes their prices... daily. I just bought something x 10 from there yesterday and today the price dropped by US$6.34... that's US$63.4..... Was rather pissed. Should have waited. But then, there was once I waited and the price went up... grrrrrrr~
If that happens and it's a large enough amount to make a fuss - just email support and they will credit the difference. If they don't just order the item again... issue a return for the item you already have, then return the item that comes in (new one) as the old (more expensive one).
I bought an item that dropped $500 between order and 2 day prime delivery. Did that.
Strato
I had an item in cart at Amazon. Price went up before I bought by quite a bit. I chatted with support and they told me to buy it and then they would change the price when I gave them the order number and before it was charged. I did and they changed the price to the lower price right after I placed the order. Just have to make a bit of a fuss if the amount is large enough. The support girl told me that Amazon has dynamic pricing and prices can change literally minute to minute but often hour to hour.
Yet it's a bit of a pain, and you're right prices to change really fast.
The big surprise for me was two weeks ago I was a Best Buy, and I needed to buy a 128 GB SDHC memory card. I pulled out my iPhone, use my Amazon App, Scanned the BarCode, and the price difference was over $100. ($59 vs $159).
Now what I heard, was that Best Buy was now honoring price matching with Amazon...
However I come to find out, and this went all the way up to the store manager, that they would not price match the item, and in their fine print there's a loophole that basically says if the price being compared to is part of a discount membership club program (like Costco), their price match policy doesn't apply.
I tried to explain the manager that Amazon prime doesn't give the buyer better prices just free shipping.
However he was either completely oblivious to how Amazon prime works, or has been told to tell customers that in fact prime membership customers received huge discounts on the products and that if I could show him the same item on Amazon .Com without a Prime logo next to it, that would be the only way they would honor the price.
Very annoying as I needed the card but was at that point so pissed I told them to take a hike.
Brick and Mortar's big box retailers - their days are numbered.
Amazon's drones will be buzzing soon.
Strato
