Come on, that’s not even the same model.
@unseen, I also should have recalled something else that Amazon does to rip people off, which may explain why your search came up with the wrong model. Amazon’s search has been increasingly useless, and to me, seemingly for the purpose of getting people to buy what Amazon wants you to buy, not what you’re specifically looking for.
Looking at the link that you posted, at the top of the page is a category for the item:
Electronics›Portable Audio & Video›Radios›Shortwave Radios
Really, Amazon’s thinking we only want to look in a Portable Audio & Video category? Maybe you were already looking for something else in that category, or maybe not.
That is a category of stuff that seems to not include the actual model we’re looking for, which is
casio g-shock gw-m500a-1
In any case Amazon takes advantage of potential buyers by limiting the choices it gives you to other items, whether or not they belong in an assumed category. Amazon will also return results for several models that are NOT in any way relevant to the search.
But when I put the same model number in Google, it came up right away with the relevant Amazon listing.
Someday I’ll explain a lot of other ways that Amazon fucks up customer searches, in ways that they didn’t used to. One of the most obvious is when you want to narrow down (say) several hundred results of the search to a lesser, more manageable number. E.g. let’s say you just want to sort the list by best review, or by lowest cost. BAM, Amazon presents you with a list of tons of other products that don’t match your search in the slightest, doubling or tripling the number of products to browse. It feels to me like Amazon’s punishing people when they try to find “the best buy”. They don’t always do that, but I haven’t figured out if there’s a pattern to when they do pollute the searches. I suspect it has to do with how they can profit the most from the choices they present to you.
Look here on Amazon. Current Amazon price $140.
I should have read this before writing my previous response. Come on, that’s not even the same model. Not to beat this to death, but to be honest, I didn’t notice until now that the good buy I found on eBay has a defective light for the display. It’d be more fair to say they’re going for $70 if I shopped right. Most people wouldn’t find that deal, so I defer to your more normal kind of shopping experience as the more accurate baseline.
As I said, I don’t think your model exists anymore, meaning in the retail market. Ebay, Craigslist, garage sales, etc., who knows what deals one might find? $70 is still more than two of my lower-costing watches.
As I’ve said, I don’t want to beat this to death, and I backed off on my price quote. Please, just take the win and let’s get over this.
EDIT: Besides, I see that this is the 42nd post in this topic. So it should be the final, universal answer, in homage to the Hitchhiker’s Guide. 🙂
Unseen 1 year ago.
