Deliberate Concealment or New Practice?

jbartus thought this was worth mentioning said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:31am ET

Hey guys,

I was just wondering, are Meh going back and stripping prices off of old product images to make price comparisons harder or is having the prices on the thread images a new practice? I didn’t notice the prices until recently (usually gloss over the images) but recently went to check old prices on products (for example today’s cameras and yesterday’s carafes) and there was no price on the old one.

As said, I could be oblivious, just wondering if anyone knows.

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ConAndLibrarian said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:34am ET:

I think it has always been that way. I could be wrong though.

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- @conandlibrarian just to clarify, always been blank and only recently has shifted to listing prices?
  
  jbartus said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:35am ET
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- @jbartus prices on image day of sale, gone after. mehstalker.com should have all the prices.
  
  Ignorant said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 1:08am ET
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- @Ignorant looks correct. Seems like a lot of effort for minimal gain. Oh well. You seem to have nailed it on the proverbial head so thanks!
  
  jbartus said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 1:46am ET
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- @jbartus it’s been like this all the way back to woot. I believe that’s why @lichme has wootstalker post into the comments the item and price so it’s saved.
  
  Ignorant said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:14pm ET
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thismyusername said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:37am ET:

Not sure how long but it has been quite some time that they have listed the “current amazon price” for the item… ya know in case you want to buy one…

if you want to track prices check out mehstalker…

http://www.mehstalker.com/

edit: looks like it was added april 2015

https://meh.com/forum/topics/buy-it-at-amazon-on-old-deals–is-this-new#553ba91b92b0870c0c032b27

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- @thismyusername I mean Meh’s own prices. Amazon price never disappears. Thanks for the tip on the mehstalker site though!
  
  jbartus said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:38am ET
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- @jbartus I think they haven’t listed their own prices since the start… I presumed it was more a way to keep the people they are getting product from happy than concealment but who knows?
  
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  thismyusername said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:45am ET
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- @thismyusername but they do…
  
  https://meh.com/forum/topics/samba-glass-insulated-carafe-1
  
  jbartus said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:46am ET
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- @jbartus that is still on sale until 6AM eastern for VMP members…
  
  thismyusername said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 1:14am ET
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jbartus said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 12:54am ET:

So if I am gathering correctly it sounds like putting the prices up is a new thing they’re doing on the images and no concealment is being carried out on Meh’s part. That’s mostly what I suspected but wasn’t sure and wanted to sate my curiousity.

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Yoda_Daenerys said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 1:08am ET:

Should we all vow to make the first post ALWAYS include the Meh. price

hmmm,

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PocketBrain said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 1:30am ET:

Is there a camelcamelcamel for meh?
camehlcamehlcamehl?

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- @PocketBrain MehStalker does a historic search.
  
  j8048188 said Tue, Jul 5th 2016 at 1:33am ET
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