>>9922372

To be fair, I used to sell a lot of stuff on Amazon as a third party seller and had some automated software to list new items. I often listed the original price of the item as something like 999.99 to make sure it doesn't sell while I'm working through adding pictures, descriptions and other administrative tasks of the item, and I'm not really ready to sell it yet. When I'm done configuring it, then I'll set the quantity and pricing to my real price and quantity. It's a workaround to a limitation of when you list something for sale, it shows up almost immediately on the site for sale, even if you haven't finished configuring it yet. I'm not making excuses, just sharing my real experience with selling on Amazon. No idea about sites like Wayfair, but potentially could be similar situation.

>>9922589

Possible that they configured it for a certain % off sale regardless of the "list price". I tried to search wayfair for those items in the screenshot and they don't show up, so either they were deleted or the pictures were doctored(web browser console?) . I would personally believe that its possible these major tech firms are involved in this sick stuff with the deep state, but playing devil's advocate. I won't want us to fall for some bait to allow us to be labeled as "conspiracy theories" and discounted. Let's be fair and weigh all the possibilities.

I really do believe it's common practice to price items at a ridiculous price while they're working on the item metadata. There are also reasons why you don't want as I have done that myself as a third party seller. There are metrics around in stock percentages, so to around the item being "out of stock", sellers just set the price ridiculously high to make sure it doesn't sell. Some site like Amazon rate your products on a % of time in stock metric. Leaving it "In stock" with a stupid high price helps this metric be 100% of the time be "in stock", boosting the SEO rankings of the search.

>>9922650

Because Amazon forces it. When you "add a product" you have to fill out tons of information. You also have to list it as "seller fulfilled" which means you have to UPS it out to the buyer. 100% of what I sold I used FBA (Fulfilled Bt Amazon), which means I sent my products to Amazon, and they warhouse, pick, and fulfill my orders. It takes a few days to ship to Amazon. When you list the product it is auto-defaulted to "seller fulfilled" and requires a quantity available of 0, so I usually put qty of 1. It takes like 5 minutes for their database to update with the product and add to catalog. This is the point where there is risk. I set the pricing to 999.99 to prevent it being sold during this period. Once the item appears in the catalog in search, I then have to "Convert to Fulfilled By Amazon." when it then switches to the Amazon inventory. Since I haven't sent it in yet, it's now "out of stock", and I can UPS it to Amazon. When they receive at their warhouse and put in a picking bin, then it shows up as "available" to be sold and then they update the quantity. It's impossible fo rme to know when this happens, and what the Amazon price will be at that time, so if I left it at 999.99, at my convenience, I can go into Amazon and look at the lowest price, and match their price to sell. If I sent it in and said the sale price was 19.99 (matching lowest price at the time), but then it takes 3 days to ship to Amazon and the price is now 29.99, I would have screwed myself out of $10 profit. I prefer to wait until it's "in stock" and ready to be fulfilled by Amazon to then set the price to match the lowest price. It's a strategy to make sure I don't sell my products too cheaply and maximize my profit.

>>9922762

Nope. Can't explain it. Not defending Wayfair at all. Just explaining how selling as a third party on one of those sites works. Believe me or not. Create an Amazon seller account and verify what I'm saying if you don't believe me.