Anyone know anything more about this? I searched “correction tape” and then “bic”.
When I clicked to the listing, I saw:
It’s basically a standard “no featured offer” situation, but now with shaming! 
The not competitively priced is what’s new to me. Was this already a thing and I just missed it?
It’s been around for a while as far as I know. I have it on a lot of my items since it still costs about $5 to ship just about anything.
I really appreciate the hypocrisy (/S) of Amazon when they pull crap like this –
There is some personal info in this screenshot, in case you hadn’t noticed.
There is and I’m at the point where AMAZON has pretty much everything out there so it doesn’t matter a lot any more.
All anyone has to do is look at any of our seller information there and dig a little bit.
I ferret out a lot of stuff that I feed to my suppliers when people are selling below MAP. I guess it helps that at one point I actually had my own private detective operation for a few years. Eventually the insurance costs outweighed the value of the income.
Here’s the new ‘improved’ version since the edit button disappeared already –
Fair enough, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
If it matters to you, I’m sure a mod could remove the first image for you.
Replaced with edited version. Thanks for watching out @HobbesIsMyTiger !
This is a pretty great way to pressure sellers into lowering prices and also eliminating any kind of argument what they’re doing is anti-consumer, since they literally alert customers to the fact that they can search for a better deal elsewhere.
As for the Amazon.com bad offer, they’ve had that “may be available for less from a non-Prime seller” text on those detail pages for a while now.
This is only true if “elsewhere” in this context means somewhere not on Amazon. If this tag just pushes buyers to other Amazon listings, then it is even more anti-competitive than just suppressing the BB.
I believe this does indeed mean off-Amazon since the bots can only compare identical items, and making multiple listings for the same item is technically prohibited.
They check on Amazon for better prices. Is this from the “$$$/count” field? Because sometimes you don’t want 4, you just want 2, even if the price per is more. 
This is Amazon ASIN 1 - Amazon ASIN 2 - Google shopping results
If this is true, and I don’t think it is, then the bots routinely compare similar items thinking they are identical, even when part numbers don’t match. I have items with slightly different part numbers because one item is rated for Celsius and the other for Fahrenheit, and Amazon high price bot’s me if the C model is even 1 penny more expensive than the F model. Valves with a 1/2" thread and a 3/4" thread have part numbers off by a single number, Amazon thinks they are the same thing. I can keep going.
Sure, but people do it anyway, no matter how much I wish they wouldn’t. The price bot does not pretend they don’t. Amazon still compares prices to other prices on Amazon,
Looking at the text again, it states “on amazon or other retailers” so it seems like they’re comparing both on and off amazon.
I believe this is correct. Your earlier post sounded like you were saying they only compare with off-site prices, which I believe is not the case.
MY big gripe (one of many) is when they compare to an item that is ‘the same’ EXCEPT that the low priced one does not include the $9.99 shipping charge while my price (for most items now) has that ‘free shipping’ trap.
Of course they are ‘the same’ if you can’t add.
I have a shipment of a Costco Kirkland Vitamin on its way from FBA with Prime Shipping. It is exactly the same price as from Costco, but I would have to pay shipping from Costco.
Amazon is providing a discount on the item, so the seller is making a sale he probably would not have made, since he is practicing retail arb.
Amazon giveth to some and taketh away from others.
I saw this on a desk I was looking at. So I thought hmm let me go see how much it is on Walmart and it was cheaper. I didn’t buy it yet but if and when I do it will be at Walmart. 
