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Post by JesusNinja on Jan 4, 2021 21:26:52 GMT
Six or seven books missing for months is bad enough. Now I go to Amazon to see how the books are doing. This is what I see. What I see is no books...This time all of them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 4, 2021 22:26:07 GMT
Am I doing something you aren't? Because.......
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Post by potet on Jan 4, 2021 22:40:55 GMT
All this is so odd!
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Post by BlueAndGold on Jan 5, 2021 1:07:25 GMT
Interestingly, today from a remote location I looked at my Amazon author page and all of my books were missing. This evening I looked at it from home and all books are present. Both machines are Win10 with Firefox.  Perhaps it was at a moment when they were doing some kind of upgrade to their database? Who can tell? What is very disheartening though, is that Amazon has added $21 to the $53 retail price of one of my hardbacks. $74 for the book is just a little hard to fathom. I don't mind when they discount the books, but adding 40% to the price hurts. 
The price at Lulu remains correct. This is an Amazon thing.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 5:22:55 GMT
Amazon.com is certainly doing some odd things. All my free books that I made in Lulu before the update, have been priced at $.99 on Amazon.com. Also out of all the sites who were prepared to allow my book "Let's be Kind" to remain free, (made in Draft2digital) only Amazon.com insisted on charging for it. I decided not to place it on Amazon. (You have that option in Draft2digital.)
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Post by Deleted on Jan 5, 2021 6:03:17 GMT
Interestingly, today from a remote location I looked at my Amazon author page and all of my books were missing. This evening I looked at it from home and all books are present. Both machines are Win10 with Firefox. Perhaps it was at a moment when they were doing some kind of upgrade to their database? Who can tell? What is very disheartening though, is that Amazon has added $21 to the $53 retail price of one of my hardbacks. $74 for the book is just a little hard to fathom. I don't mind when they discount the books, but adding 40% to the price hurts.
The price at Lulu remains correct. This is an Amazon thing.
I used to check on my books on Amazon every day. Some days they appear, others they don't. Amazon chooses what to "advertise" on any given day. If you do a search with your ISBN in quotation marks do they appear? That is the only way to be sure. |
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Post by JesusNinja on Jan 5, 2021 17:37:31 GMT
I contacted Amazon about it, the books later showed up. "But" now I've again lost all of my reviews on certain books. This hurts your rankings and makes your books show up further in the count.
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Post by JesusNinja on Jan 5, 2021 17:39:10 GMT
Am I doing something you aren't? Because.......
I checked for over an hour, the same thing happened. I contacted Amazon and it suddenly showed up again. It's happened twice in the past few months. Each time losing my reviews and rankings on some books. I was told by Amazon they would show later but they never did. |
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Post by JesusNinja on Jan 5, 2021 22:20:27 GMT
Interestingly, today from a remote location I looked at my Amazon author page and all of my books were missing. This evening I looked at it from home and all books are present. Both machines are Win10 with Firefox. Perhaps it was at a moment when they were doing some kind of upgrade to their database? Who can tell? What is very disheartening though, is that Amazon has added $21 to the $53 retail price of one of my hardbacks. $74 for the book is just a little hard to fathom. I don't mind when they discount the books, but adding 40% to the price hurts.
The price at Lulu remains correct. This is an Amazon thing.
I seriously don't see how they can expect to make sales that way. I do know that they try to manipulate people to buy their products over other dealers. I was wondering is the higher price from Amazon or someone else trying to sell your books. I've had that happen where people tried to sell the book as "used" and shoot the price way up. One book hadn't even sold a single copy LOL |
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Post by benziger on Jan 5, 2021 22:36:02 GMT
The thing with the prices is easily explainable - perhaps not comprehensible in individual cases. Amazon wants to sell a lot and make the maximum profit.
So, as with airline tickets, there are flexible prices, driven by an algorithm. If a book/flight is often searched for, the prices rise because the demand increases...
Or the price rises from 50 to 70, only to drop again to 60. In the hope that those who missed out on 50 and find 70 too expensive will now buy after the "price reduction" and pay more.
This is all automated and takes into account a lot of evaluated data, e.g. surfing behaviour. Individual prices for different customers are also conceivable.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2021 0:35:01 GMT
What is very disheartening though, is that Amazon has added $21 to the $53 retail price of one of my hardbacks. $74 for the book is just a little hard to fathom. I don't mind when they discount the books, but adding 40% to the price hurts. What has likely happened is that Amazon have auto price-checked your book against the $77.88 that Abebook here in the UK are charging for the hardcover version ($57.52 + $20.36 shipping to the US) and undercut it to grab any sales. They like to be seen as the cheapest but they don't like to be seen as being TOO cheap. |
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Perhaps it was at a moment when they were doing some kind of upgrade to their database? Who can tell?
