Amazon’s top three offerings for American Standard 023529-0070A:
They’re all “by American Standard”, but you must check each item to discover where it’s coming from:
- “Ships from and sold by Amazon.com”
- “Ships from and sold by Gatzies“
- “Ships from and sold by moneyworldstore“
Although I’ve done my fair share of repairs to this faucet, I don’t need a cartridge every month and, in any event, signing up for Subscribe & Save doesn’t promise much in the way of savings.
The second listing has the best price by a small margin. I’m content to pay half a buck more to have Amazon handle the entire transaction, rather than deal with some random Amazon Marketplace vendor.
The third listing seems to be a bizarre algorithmically priced corner case, a no-stock placeholder, or a money-laundering scheme. Judging from the pricing of other “moneyworldstore” offerings, their business model doesn’t include retail sales.
So much weirdness from one simple item …
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3 responses to “Amazon Product Puzzlement”
Also no fun is when you search for a very specific part number and it bring up other things too, because, you know, they were “close” somehow. Bots have a lot to learn yet.
If you don’t see what you want on the first page after the irrelevant “sponsored” crap, then you’ll never find it. Amazon’s search is basically worthless; even eBay does it better.
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