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I'm sure it would be a great place to work
- if you can demonstrate your running cost [vs performance] is lower than a robot's
equal opportunity is no longer only for humans
you you... machinist! 
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My wife and I both have amazon accounts. Her account has "Prime".
I logged onto my account (not prime), and looked up an item - it was $19. I then copied the link address, changed to my wife's account (with Prime), pasted the link into the browser, and the item was more than $2 MORE EXPENSIVE.
What the actual f*ck?!
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Amazon is sexist!
(By the way I am a menber of the Secret Resistance against Prime...)
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#realJSOP wrote: I then copied the link address
That suggests that the identity under which the item was originally viewed is encoded in the link address, a cookie, or some other mechanism.
Try searching for the item again, but with your wife's account active. I've run into this a few times, as my wife has a Prime account and I don't.
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I'm confused, your non-prime price: $19
her prime price: $21
umm, I was never top of the class in maths (that would mean actually doing work, or even worse homework) (motto summary: "only do enough to pass, pass is pass so any more is waste.")
but: 19 is not prime and 21 is prime ???
something looks backwards here, (or is alexa's prime number generator broken?)
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There are strange folks at Amazon: they use base-18.
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Did you check to make sure the supplier/retailer are the same?
It may be that the $19 retailer was the cheapest, but they don't support prime accounts (i.e. don't allow free delivery).
I expect your wife's account selects "prime suppliers" as default, and that supplier just happens to be more expensive for that product.
Amazon can get a bit weird when it tries to predict what supplier you want to use by default. There should be a section for viewing all buying options which might list the cheaper (non-prime) supplier.
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It was exactly the same link address. How could it be different?
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Hard to say for sure without seeing it, or being in your position to access both accounts.
But it's possible the link is simply just for the product and doesn't enforce a specific supplier, and that part is chosen by Amazon when you navigate to the link.
As I said, hard to know for sure what you experienced without seeing it. But I free pretty confident in saying that if there was some sort of "scam" like you imply, we all would have heard about it by now. Amazon are too big to hide something like that from the world.
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It may be that non-prime has an extra $4.99 or something for delivery while the Prime doesn't.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Let's assume so.
Prime promises Free two day delivery (for prime eligible products). If free delivery implies increasing the price . . . than it's not free.* As it is, your hundred-dollar or so fee is to their advantage since you are now more likely to buy from them because of prime. So, in essence, you paid them for the privilege of being motivated to buying more from them.
* Don't pay any attention to the man behind the curtain.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: So, in essence, you paid them for the privilege of being motivated to buying more from them.
An interesting thought....
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I could be wrong here, but I don't think Prime affects the $$ on this. It affects the speedy free 2 day shipping on most products.
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I'm just sayin' I noticed a difference in price, depending on whether I use our prime account, vs the non-Prime account.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Out of curiosity, what is the final price on the non-prime when you include shipping? Still cheaper then?
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Don't know - I didn't look
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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...is it called speed dating?
Or are they just mething around?
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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When do they get to first (free)base?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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... they will spend their time fixing it.
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Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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I'd smack 'em both!
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Just a couple of Charlies
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*SNORT*
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I'd keep my nose out of their business if I were you! 
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I'm not sure they'd have a pot to pee in.
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