Originally Posted by crockett

Amazon doesn't control the prices. All those items you are buying are coming from individual sellers. Someone like me.

I might have 1 of those items or I might have 50.. Meaning if I have the buy box and sell out, then the next guy gets the buy box. On top of this other sellers are changing their prices at random times to try to get the buy box. Meaning on a competitive item the price will often change a lot.

The only time Amazon has anything to do with that is when they are selling the item themselves or they allow the manufacturers to control the buy box.

Amazon is a warehouse network and website. Most of the items on their site are not Amazon's it's other people selling them and paying Amazon a fee..