Amazon charging different if using iPhone

[silver911r]

I was watching hells kitchen and wanted to look up a chef's cook book, Hugh Garvey.

I typed it into my iPhone and the book was $17.99. Then I decided to grab my macbook air and see if he had any other books. Holy crap, the exact same book, same reviews, everything the same is only $9.19 on my macbook air.

WTF?

 

[eric/]

One is only 3 left in stock, the other is 7.

 

[mobilehaathi]

Indeed, it isn't clear that you're looking at the same entry.

 

[silver911r]

What do you mean different entry? I used the same search, both in amazon's search field, it was the first result that came up.

 

[mobilehaathi]

One has three left in stock the other has seven. It isn't clear you are looking at the same entry.

 

[silver911r]

here is a screen shot instead of iphone pic.

 

[mobilehaathi]

here is a screen shot instead of iphone pic.

right...that was clear with the crappy photo you first posted

 

[silver911r]

Both of the entries say "sold and shipped by Amazon"

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I'm not going to buy books off amazon on my iphone anymore, I wonder how much less samsung users get charged, probably free.

 

[184550]

Using the Amazon iPhone app I selected the same book and it comes up as $9.18.

I also visited Amazon through Safari on my iPhone and selected the same book and got $9.18 again.

 

[silver911r]

I searched "hugh garvey cook book" just now and came up with $17.99, on my iPhone, then $9.18 on my mac.

 

[mobilehaathi]

For what it's worth it shows as $9.18 through safari on my ipad. It is probably a difference between accessing the store through the app versus a web browser. They may be seeing slightly different databases or something. I don't think there is any hard evidence that amazon is raising prices for apple users.

 

[Nermal]

It's $9.18 on my iPhone too, with the same Amazon product code (B005B1GN7W).

 

[mobilehaathi]

$9.18 through the app on my ipad.

 

[silver911r]

Oh, the mac fixed my misspelled "cook book" to "cookbook".

So amazon is just charging $9 extra dollars if you can't spell cookbook.

 

[mobilehaathi]

Oh, the mac fixed my misspelled "cook book" to "cookbook".

So amazon is just charging $9 extra dollars if you can't spell cookbook.

nope

 

[silver911r]

Look, an illiteracy tax.

 

[184550]

I searched "hugh garvey cook book" just now and came up with $17.99, on my iPhone, then $9.18 on my mac.

When I added 'cook book' and repeated my searches with the Amazon app and the Safari version, it came up as the only item and was listed at $17.99.

Interesting.

 

[mobilehaathi]

Look, an illiteracy tax.

Your first picture has both options actually.

 

[silver911r]

I see that now, so they give me the option to buy either at $17.99 (which is picked) or I can select the crappy $9.18 version. Which are both the same, and both sold by amazon. Makes sense to me.

 

[mobilehaathi]

No one ever claimed amazon inventory made sense...

 

[silver911r]

Also, the iPhone does not make it easy to find both versions. You only see $17.99, and have to click through the price to find the cheap one. I feel like I just went used care shopping. I almost paid double because I spelled "cookbook" wrong. Man.

 

[GoCubsGo]

So clearly you're not up charged if you shop using your iPhone.

 

[Abstract]

Wow, that's weird.

When I first saw your post, I was going to suggest that you delete your browser's cookies, but I see that this is just a weird situation with no obvious explanation.

 

[rhett7660]

Same ISBN number?

 

[MusicEnthusiast]

I recommend you call Amazon and report this issue. Heck, email them the pictures in your "illiteracy tax" post to prove it to them!!