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Originally Posted by madcorgi

I've recently been shopping for a Roomba i7, which up through yesterday was on sale for $538.99 at Amazon, as well as Best Buy and all the other major online retailers I could find. I put it in my shopping cart but didn't buy it while shopping around, reading reviews, Pelican threads (always helpful on stuff like this), etc.

Sometime yesterday, when I looked in the cart again, Amazon let me know that there had been a price increase. There sure had--up to $699.00! I checked the other retailers, and sure enough they had all lock stepped their way up to Amazon's price. I don't know how quickly they made the adjustments, but I bet it was pretty much automatic. Probably driven by an algorithm, but I don't know. Anyone know how this all works?

I've seen the same thing. I don't know. I've also had stuff that was in my cart go down if I put it in the cart and left it there a while.

I assume that part of it is "OK, Bob has been scouring the 'Net looking for prices for this widget, lets jack up the price since we're pretty sure that he's going to buy one."

I've seen the same thing happen with airline tickets, but in that case, if you switch browsers or clear the cookies for whatever website you plan to purchase the ticket from, the price goes back to normal. I don't know if that's a possibility or option in your case or not.