Amazon Stops Giving Refunds When an Item's Price Drops After You Purchase It (recode.net)

Posted by msmash on Monday May 23, 2016 @08:40AM from the make-your-peace-with-it dept.

Amazon has for years issued refunds to users when the price of an item drops after they've purchased it. But lately the e-commerce giant hasn't been doing that on a number of products, except for televisions, according to price-tracking companies. Recode reports: The move may have something to do with the rise of startups that track prices for Amazon customers and automatically request refunds when appropriate. One of them, a Santa Monica-based startup called Earny that is backed by the startup incubator Science, first pointed out the change. Earny scours a customer's email inbox for digital receipts, and then continuously checks the price on a retailer's website to see if it drops.

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Re:Newegg does the same thing by Nethead · 2016-05-23 10:10 · Score: 3, Funny

It took several days for them to at least agree to give me store credit... I found this to be an exceptionally poor way to handle a $150 purchase. I haven't been back to their site since..
So can I have your store credit?

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