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No one would start intentionally shopping for a phone priced that high just by looking at this ad. It has to be a more literal clickbait.
UPDATE: I did not consider the currency. The number of responses mentioning currency tells me that's what I overlooked. I am no longer even mildly infuriated and am therfore a liar 😅
13K pesos, or about 650 dollars.
Well...I didn't consider that. I tried to find the ad again but couldn't make the same one appear. I did get a different Amazon ad which I clicked through and confirmed its price was in USD. I did assume I'd only see ads with prices in local currency but that could be a bad assumption.
I don't think us mere mortals can hope to understand the mysteries of Amazon marketing services.
If your kid can just buy something in two clicks on your phone, let alone a $13,000 thing, it's your fault for not securing your payment method and not setting sane credit card limits.
Or just... Idk... Signing out of your Amazon account and not having it autofill a password?
Or literally anything. I guess a single iota of convenience is worth the total sacrifice of security.
You could ask to get refunded if it wasn't actually you, though. From the credit card if nobody else.
....ummmmmmm am I looking at a $13,000 phone!?
That better be in yen or something JFC. Who's their market Saudi princes?!
Considering “Violeta” is Spanish… it’s probably in pesos. About $650 usd.
This could be. I mentioned in another reply, I did assume I'd only see local currency prices. Seeing 3+ responses questioning the currency makes me think that's a likely explanation.
It's funny because in my initial writing of my comment I actually wrote pesos instead of yen but I wasn't sure how close the peso was to the dollar so I went with yen lol
A quick check shows the S24 Violet goes for 800 to 1k USD. And is currently marked down slightly. So about right, yeah.
No 7 year old should have dad's access code/password.
They should also know to not touch dad's phone.
Would you let them use your work PC? Drive the car? Play with a Leatherman?
Maybe dad should have a passcode on his phone and banking apps? Literally no one can “get their mitts” on my phone and use it without my consent short of holding a gun to my head. So many of these parents seem to handwave responsibility from fictional scenarios.
the scammer thinks he's gonna score $12000 net on a mis-clicked one-click.
meanwhile bezos is drooling over amazon's 50% average cut on marketplace transactions.
Thought these ads were offering a way to launder money.
Could be in some currency besides dollars. Colombian pesos are ~4000 pesos to the dollar and use the dollar symbol as the currency symbol. I’m sure there are other currencies that are similar.
I see Mexican pesos as $ inside the country as well and either MXN or MX$ when talking to the US branch. 1USD = about 20 MX$. I'm seeing it at $700 USD on sale which would track at about 14k MXN but not sure who else has a similar conversion rate
Doubt that's US Dollars.
It is a 1k USD phone. I would hope Amazon prevents one click buying on very large or very expensive orders. (You can buy a literal house on Amazon)
I just checked though and uhhh the 7,000 USD tiny house has the 1 click buy button on it...
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Lots of vendors set their prices algorithmically... So like when competitors raise their prices or demand seems high for some reason or something, the price will auto-adjust to theoretically maximize profits. The algorithms are often pretty dumb.
So sometimes when you see something like this, you're witnessing a dynamic pricing algorithm spiraling out of control because it wasn't implemented very well, and nobody's paying attention.
The other side of this I've seen is vendors setting the price to really high levels when out of stock. I've heard this explained as "the algorithm will punish you" for going out of stock and "if someone places an order, you can always scalp one"
Oh interesting-- Yeah gaming the recommendation/search algorithms is another, related explanation. Like I know someone with an Etsy store who says that various things, like running out of stock or putting your store in "vacation mode" will hurt your store's visibility, so people find ways to game it. Totally makes sense that the same kind of thing would be going on on Amazon.
Weird that they'd allocate ad spend at the same time that they were out of stock, but like I said, the algorithms are pretty coarse and probably just not that coordinated.
That is much more reasonable, one of a couple possibilities I'm now seeing.
So just outrage for the sake of outrage
You don't use Ublock?