Amazon’s dynamic pricing is causing chaos for school budgets

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• KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For instance, the report mentions an employee of the City of Boulder, Colorado, who purchased a 12-pack of Sharpie markers for $8.99, while an employee of the nearby Denver Public Schools was charged $28.63 for the same product on the same day.

  $28.63 for a pack of sharpies? Whoever looked at that price and thought that ordering it from Amazon was the way to go needs to go back to school themselves.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Wow, that’s a bigger ripoff than Grainger. At least they give discounts for business accounts that spend a lot.

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    • vrek@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What’s even worse is when you have to go through a third party to buy from grainger.

      A previous company wanted to increase their “diversity” which I agree with but rather than actually hiring diverse people or anything actually helpful they decided we could only purchase easily through this company. It was made very difficult to purchase from anyone else.

      We needed 5 gallon buckets periodically. We used to buy them for 2.68 per bucket and 1.57 for lid. We used about 10 per year. Through this new company it was 87.10 for a 10 pack.

      Worse what you had to do is go onto grainger.com find the item you wanted, go to their website, put in the grainger part number, some point typically within 72 hours you would get an email with a quote, go back to their website enter the quote number, purchase the item, and the item would arrive in a grainger box. But since you didn’t buy it from grainger the “to” entry on address label was for who ever made the quote. So you had to go to the warehouse and ask if there was any packages. They would ask for the po number and then have to manually check all the packages for that number in the attn field of address labels. There was about 1000 employees in the building.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    better off going to staples, or office depot, even target.

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I saw this with my printer ink. It was an older unpopular model. $8 a cartridge, but later $39, then another time $17, then down to $8. Like no way to budget for that variation

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  …move fast and break things?

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  • msage@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Break bank, my dude

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