Amazon’s "lowest price" promise is revealed as a calculated illusion maintained through the systemic coercion of the entire retail market. This report effectively exposes how platform monopolies manipulate competition to ensure consumers pay a premium across all channels.
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Welcome to Rosson Reports. I am Jeff Rosson. Big show today about Amazon.
They are accused of rigging prices. And not just rigging prices and driving them higher uh so you overpay on Amazon. Now, Amazon is accused of raising prices everywhere. Basically bullying the major other retailers. I mean, that's how much power Amazon has. You're about to see bullying Walmart, bullying Home Depot, Best Buy into raising their prices. So, Amazon seemed the cheapest. And you're like, well, why would those other retailers comply? It's because Amazon, according to this new lawsuit, would go to the actual manufacturer of the product. So, let's say a Dyson vacuum and say, "Hey, you know, we noticed you're we're selling that Dyson vacuum for our margins at, you know, $75. We notice on uh Walmart you're selling it for they're selling it for 60. That's not going to work for us." So, they would pressure Dyson, according to the lawsuit, to say, "You better get Walmart to lower that price. They better not be lower than raise that price. I mean, they better not be lower than us." So Walmart needs to go up or else we're going to pull you from Amazon. And that's the power Amazon has. And there's this new lawsuit detailing everything out and naming names of the retailers they were working with, of the manufacturers they were working with um when they were rigging prices. And what this means for you is that you weren't just paying more for stuff on Amazon.
And those low prices weren't really the low prices. They were just driving up the prices everywhere else. you shopped to appear to be the lowest. Pretty insane. We're going to show you all that. Plus, we're going to show you how to protect yourself. So, what's the answer here? Because you want to shop on Amazon. We worked with our deal hunters and our partners over at Deal Seeek to find you real Amazon deals, the real lowest prices, the biggest price drops of the week. And on top of that, as a little cherry on top, we have exclusive promo codes for you that you really can't find anywhere else by yourself to save you even more money at checkout to kind of erase this off the map. So, we have that for you. Plus, I love this part of the show. Join our live chat.
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Of course, chime in. Let us know what you think of the show. But also, if you're looking for something, let's talk about the Dyson vacuum cleaner. It's our our example of the day. and you can't find one on the cheap and you want a deal on one, write it in. Our deal hunters are standing by live on this show as we're on. We are going to go find you the deals and find you secret promo codes so you can save money on the things you want in real time. So join the chat and if you're watching this on replay, join the comments because we are there too monitoring this all the time and we will jump in and we are going to show you how to get the best deals and the exact products and the best uh price drops happening right now. But first, this is the major price fixing case that you need to know about against Amazon.
accused of bullying retailers, bullying the actual manufacturers of products to artificially inflate prices across the board. So, Amazon seemed the cheapest.
Um, and the cla so the claim is they weren't just rigging prices on Amazon, but controlling the entire marketplace.
And when there's no competition, we lose as the customer. You're paying more. And we are talking about major brands here.
And again, we are naming names. Roll clip one.
>> Attorney General Rob Bonta accuses Amazon of working with retailers including Target, Walmart, Chewy, Levi Strauss, Best Buy, and Home Depot to raise prices. In one example, he claims Amazon sent Levi Strauss links to khaki pants being sold for lower prices on Walmart.com. In the message, Amazon allegedly said it hoped these can get resolved over the next few days. The next day, according to the attorney general, Levi Strauss reported back to Amazon saying it had spoken to Walmart and Walmart had partnered with us to raise the khakis price up to $29.99 immediately. In another example, Amazon allegedly emailed pet treat manufacturer Chewy a list of products with price increases to convince the vendor Chewy should be aware of this update and follow suit accordingly. Two days later, the attorney general's office claims the prices that went up on Amazon immediately went up on Chewy.
>> These were not suggestions. They were directives, often backed by threats of penalties if vendors failed to comply.
>> Yeah. Because that's the power that Amazon has over these manufacturers. If you want to be on Amazon, which they all need to be, you will do what we say. And you saw they didn't have Chewy lower the price down to the Amazon price. They said to Chewy, "You better raise your prices so we can charge more at Amazon, too, and we don't look like the bad guys." So, we lose. These are very serious allegations. We have been pouring through the actual lawsuit because the lawsuit is full of the actual name brands that are impacted here. I want to read one section of it.
This is a correspondence between Amazon and a company called All the Rages. is all the rages is a home decor company.
They make lamps and other things like that. And they are big. They work with the big retailers. They work with Home Depot. They work with Walmart. They work with Amazon. So, here is something that it said here. Amazon demanded that all the rages paid to make up for its lost profits due to price matching a lowerric competitor for 84 specific products to quote keep them selling on Amazon. Okay.
Amazon threatened to stop ordering these products from all the rages if it did not comply. A straightup threat from Amazon to this company. 84 products. You better raise the prices elsewhere so we look better or else forget about being on Amazon at all. Now, a few days later, a couple days later, Amazon reported back on a few of the items and where they stood. Oh, this is also pulled from the lawsuit. I don't see any other retailers at $24.99 except for Amazon.
Again, Walmart was at $24.99, now raised to $39.
We should be good now.
We should be good now. Everything's great. It's all good now because Walmart raised its prices. So that means you, if you were shopping at Walmart, you were like, "God, why' this price go up?" It's because Amazon told them to and bullied them and threatened them. Absolutely insane. And Amazon's like, "Yeah, we're good now." And it didn't stop there.
There are even more brands that are involved in this that were getting pushed around. And I think it's important for you to know all of them, for you to know as many of these brands as possible so you are the most educated shopper and can shop smarter. So, I wanted to play this video, too. These are the brands that are doing whatever they have to turn themselves into pretzels to make Amazon happy, even if it means you pay more money. Roll clip two.
>> This is price fixing. I mean, straight up price fixing. We see Home Depot involved in this. Allergen, which makes eye drops. We saw them working with Amazon to raise prices across different sites. Levis's, Hannes, Skull Candy that makes the earbuds. We saw it with a fertilizer maker. That's just extortion in broad daylight and they're writing about this in his emails just like outlining this scheme to each other and talking about it.
>> The one involving the maker of K9 Naturals, they actually have a smiley face emoji when they report back to Amazon like, "Oh yeah, we got the price up at Chewy for you." Smiley face emoji in this casual way. They're just like raising prices together. Then there are other situations where Amazon clearly is so powerful and they can simply use their power over the supplier.
Maximatic, which makes ice cream makers.
Amazon emailed them and said, "We're seeing the price of your ice cream makers lower on other websites." And basically, we're going to turn off your product, so people won't be able to buy it on Amazon. And of course, Amazon's huge. You can't afford to lose your sales on Amazon. So, what do we see these folks do? They go and uh raise their prices on the other sites. And then Amazon is like, "Okay, great. We've turned your product back on."
And look, no one's asking you to cry boohoo for these big companies that are being bullied by Amazon. We're the ones who end up paying because Amazon's not like we're going to be competitive. If Walmart's below us, we're going to come down below them. Instead, they're saying, "No, no, no. We're going to go the other way. Everyone needs to come up." So, you're actually paying more on Amazon, and you're paying more everywhere else. We are the clear losers here. That's what has me so upset, and it's what should have you so upset. So, what does Amazon have to say about this?
Cue the corporate response.
>> Amazon has denied allegations of price fixing and dismisses the attorney general's newly revealed evidence as a transparent attempt to distract from the weakness of its case, coming more than 3 years after filing its complaint and based on supposedly new evidence it has had for years. the company adding, "Amazon is consistently identified as America's lowest priced online retailer, and we're proud of the low prices customers find when shopping at our store." Walmart, Levi Strauss, Chewy, and the others are not defendants in the case. But Walmart saying, "We will always work hard on behalf of our customers to keep our prices low."
>> Do they just have like a drawer of like hm PR problem?
Let me just pull this one out. There we go. I mean, these these comments just don't get to it. I want to bring in Trey Donovan, co-founder of our partners over at Deal Seek. Amazon experts look for deals all the time. Trey, um, your first, uh, thoughts on this. This seems brazen, out in the open, and disgusting to me. They, I mean, there's a lawsuit against them now, but, this seems like they're so big, they feel like they can do whatever they want at this point.
>> Yeah, absolutely. There's there's actually a couple different dynamics at play here. One is Amazon has a lot of leverage. If you're shopping for anything, there's a higher chance there's more monthly shoppers on Amazon than on the website selling their own headphones, the website selling their own jeans. So, Amazon knows that. And because there are hundreds and millions of shoppers, they now have leverage over the brands to use these black hat backdoor tactics to either incentivize or punish brands if they do or don't play by their rules. So across the board, as you mentioned, like what's really unfortunate here is we've been paying more for everything, not just on Amazon. Again, if you're shopping around and you see a price you like on Amazon and a price you don't like on another website, now we know that doesn't necessarily mean you're getting a deal on Amazon. It might just mean Amazon is a bully and punishing these other brands if they don't comply and make it look like it's cheaper on Amazon. and and live. You just found some examples of this, right, that you just brought along, including this um this Curig coffee maker on Amazon and then you compared it to Target.
>> Yeah, exactly. This this is a great example. The uh the Kurig coffee maker, one of the most most popular coffee makers on the market. It is a household name. And because of that, you can find it on Amazon. You can also find it at Best Buy. You can find it at Target. You can find it at Walmart. So, from a consumer's point of view, you think that's great. You get the option to shop around. you can see what it costs at all these places and then decide where to buy it. But because Amazon again has the most shoppers, they get to play these games and say, "Hey, right now on Amazon, look at the price. It's only $89.99 on Amazon." And then if you go look at Target, I'm willing to bet that Target is selling less of these products than Amazon. So Target's saying, "Fine, if you want us to, we will raise the price to $109.99.
charge the extra $20 so it looks more competitive on Amazon. And at the end of the day, that's helping Amazon's bottom line. They get to charge less but at scale get more sales and the brands kind of have to play along.
>> Yeah. And we wonder like why is Target so expensive? Why is it so much cheaper on Amazon? It's because Amazon is kind of pulling the strings perhaps uh behind the scenes. Uh the lawsuit is using strong language like coercion. What does that mean in this particular case?
coercion.
>> Yeah, the lawsuit is like thousands of pages, so there's a lot of different places where that word coercion could be used, but the general claim here, and I think the most important one for people listening, is that Amazon will penalize brands allegedly if they sell their products cheaper elsewhere. And again, that means they could remove the products from Amazon altogether. But they could also be a little more sneaky about it. They could lower how well these products rank in the Amazon search bar. They could give them less visibility, less placements on the Amazon deals page, less placements during big shopping events when the surge of traffic is so so competitive, and even losing the Amazon buy box. I know a lot of people don't know exactly what the buy box is, but there are nuances that Amazon sellers are incentivized to get these higher tier uh higher visibility placements like the buy box. And it's something that Amazon can pull from these sellers if they're not complying.
>> Yeah. If you don't play ball with us and raise the prices everywhere else and make us look better, they have a lot of tools in their tool bag, a lot of ammunition. We can go nuclear and just knock pull you off Amazon entirely, but then you're saying there are other things they can do in the algorithm so you don't actually at home get to see that price. Sure, you're still on Amazon, but we're not going to surface you to people. Can you explain what the buy box is? Because I've heard this from a lot of sellers. You really want to be in the buy box, and Amazon can pull that away if you don't play ball. What is the buy box? How does that impact how I shop?
>> Yeah, exactly. If I take the screen for a second, uh the buy box is in simple terms the official featured offer for an Amazon product. So, everybody scrolls on Amazon. If you're looking through any product, you can choose literally anything on the screen here. For example, this this brace for back support. This box on the right hand side, this white box is the buy box.
This shows the price. It'll show the price history, the add to car button, and the buy now button. But what most people don't realize is just because this product is the one you clicked on, doesn't mean it's not sold by other sellers, too. So this exact back brace, yes, it's sold by this company down here, doesn't mean other sellers aren't selling it. And what's really, really interesting here is only one seller, there could be dozens, gets featured in this buy box. So if you press buy now, you just know you're getting this. You don't know if you're getting it from seller A, B, or C, but you want to be the seller feature here because that seller gets most of the sales. And that's another lever that Amazon can pull. And we can show you an example with these iPhone cases. Most of the time, and you guys have probably seen this all the time on Amazon. You look over here, you can just add a product to your cart if you want these phone cases.
But if you're ever shopping and you see something like this where there's not a clear buy now button. Instead, you have to see all the buying options, this indicates that there are other brands selling the product either at the same price or different prices. And that's Amazon not rewarding a buy box here. So, every brand wants to be the featured one here because you're going to get the most of the sales. And because Amazon knows that, they can incentivize sellers to play by their rules, change prices off Amazon's site, and reward the ones who do by giving them feature placements allegedly, like in the buy box here.
>> That is crazy. I never knew about that.
So sellers are basically forced into compliance. They really have no choice because Amazon drives a lot of their sales. And we found the video from one seller who actually told his story about this happening to him. Roll uh clip four. Amazon made me lower my price discount. If you guys do not know what price discounts are, it's when you change your price to have a percent off.
So, you get the red badge, like 10% off, 12% off, whatever may be. I was at like $39.99 for the last 20, maybe 30 days.
Now, because of that data, my average price has gone down on the back end of the system. So, I have to lower my price even more. But, it's funny cuz the price is like 3836 or some random decimal. So, I set it to that price cuz that's the minimum they let me do it. And now we're back and good. But for a few hours on a Prime Saturday shopping spree, I was basically suppressed cuz my price was too high from their lowest price. Anyways, I'm sure you guys have seen this before, but it's so weird. Like, who cares about 39.36.40?
Just let me have my price.
>> Yeah. I mean, it it sounds good, Trey, like at the surface, like, oh, Amazon's looking out for us. They don't want sellers to be gouging us. And that may be true in some cases, but we now know from this lawsuit that's not all that's going on here. They're actually just trying to kill Walmart. They're trying to kill some of these retailers uh that are their competition by getting them to raise the prices. How can this lawsuit impact how we all shop? What are the big what's the big picture here?
>> Yeah, it's interesting and it's important to point out that Amazon is is employing some of these tactics. A lot of other brands employ similar tactics just not at the scale of Amazon. So these become more consequential when you look at Amazon and obviously the numbers here. And it's unfortunate because it trickles down and again as you mentioned hurts the consumers. You might not believe it. It might not seem intuitive but price competition helps everybody especially as shoppers. If we're shopping for, as you mentioned a Dyson vacuum, we are the ones that benefit. If Walmart makes it 200, Amazon makes it 190, Walmart rebuttals by making it 170, back and forth, we're getting it cheaper at the end of the day, and it it depends where where your balls lie, whether you want the brand's bottom line to be better, whether you want your pockets as the consumer to be better, and and whether we all play nice together. So, so that's what's going on across the board with Amazon. And the big thing is, as you mentioned, it trickles down and affects us at the end of the day.
>> Yeah. And it's all being done in secret, too, right? We're meant to think that they're all competitors, but they're all kind of colluding allegedly behind the scenes. It's all secret. It's all quiet.
It's all behind the curtain, and we're the ones who lose. Uh be before we get to the amazing deals that you brought that are real vetted Amazon deals, and we actually found the lowest prices, can you quickly show, and everyone who's watching this on replay, you can pause and you can play this slow because I love when Trey walks through the step by steps here. What can people do to protect themselves? What can we look for on Amazon to kind of get some clues about this when we're shopping?
>> 100%. There are a couple things that are important to check whenever you're buying anything on Amazon. And if I take the screen for one second, I'll walk you through what that looks like. Number one, you can check the product prices outside of Amazon. Now, as we just learned from those clips, whether or not those prices are accurate indicators of the good deal price on Amazon is up for debate, but it does give you a good frame of reference to know the prices you should be looking for on Amazon. But a better way to doublech checkck your work is to use the native price tracking tool within Amazon. You'd be surprised how many people do not know this exists to. So, take a look at my screen. You can choose any product on Amazon.
Pretend you are casually scrolling looking for a product on a Sunday afternoon and we we decide we want let's make a 50% discount and grab something that looks good like this like this Shark vacuum for example. We've all been on this page before. We've all seen something like a 50% discount from a top brand. What you guys have to do and watch closely is find this price history button. This is this has been around for a while but it is on the newer side.
Click this price history button in the buy box and it is going to pull up the price history on the left hand side. Now you can do this both on mobile in the app and on desktop but it's going to give you the option to look at the one month, 3 month and sometimes one year price history to see these price fluctuations. And we can do a whole show diagnosing and looking at what these peaks and valleys actually mean. But essentially, one of the most common tactics is Amazon sellers raising the price for a very, very brief period, perhaps to $200 here. So, they can drop it. And as you can see, it's usually closer to this $100 point, but now you still think you're getting that 50% discount. So, always important to check price history. Overall, Shark is a great brand. I think $100 is a good price point for this, but it is important to check the price history so you can double check your shopping and just have a little bit more of a leg up on other not so smart shoppers.
>> Yeah, that's really smart to know if you're getting screwed or not and whether they're manipulating you or not.
Trey, I appreciate it. Stand by. Uh Trey has brought the 10 hottest Amazon deals happening right now. Vetted in light of everything we've been talking about.
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I am watching our uh Google doc very, very closely. These are all the live requests that are coming in. So, when you see me looking over here, that's what I'm looking at. And a lot of your requests are coming. We're going to get to all of them and give them a shot. If we can find the deal, we're going to find it for you. So, join the chat and uh let us know. But first, as we work on that, uh we have got a lot of them already. This is like a record number.
Um keep them coming. We got we have bandwidth, baby. We can do it. Uh here are the deals that we found for you that um are the lowest prices, biggest price drops, and the secret promo codes involved, too, so you save even deeper at checkout. We got this oscillating standing fan with remote and adjustable height. 50% off with a promo code that you found.
>> Yeah, this is a 50% off discount, but this is actually stacking three different ways to save money. We're starting off with this one because for everybody watching, you are going to learn more from this deal than you have in the past 20 years of shopping on Amazon because we're going to demonstrate a price drop. We're going to demonstrate a coupon and a promo code all working together. So, watch closely.
This is a great example. This oscillating fan, again, perfect for the summer. We're picking seasonal deals. Is originally $69.99. Now, you'll notice we get it down to $34.99 on Dealsek with this promo code. again, click the green button below. That'll automatically copy the promo code and you'll see that original $70 point price point. Now, the first way we can save is this button on the page. This is what's called a coupon. Coupons aren't secret codes.
They aren't price drops. They're these buttons you have to opt into to get additional discounts. And in this case, if you click it, the price automatically drops from 70 and saves you $13. Now, you will be surprised how many people buy this without taking the 1 second to click it down below. They just add it to their cart. We're shopping a little smarter. The first step here is clicking the coupon. Step number two is adding it to your cart. Everybody else thinks they save $13. We're going to save even more by proceeding to checkout and pasting that promo code from dealseek into this little box at checkout. It's going to appear right here. It's automatically on your clipboard because you clicked on the button on dealseek. You paste the button. apply the promo code and as long as it's still active, which you can see indicated with this green text here at checkout, you're going to get that additional discount. So, original $70 with the coupon, you save $13 and then we saved an even bigger discount. We got it for $34.99 cheaper than anyone else.
This is how you can shop smarter by stacking different deal options and we have a lot more of that in store today.
>> Yep. And the way to get all these, by the way, is to go to dealseek.com.
All the deals we're talking about today are automatically being put there in real time. Dealsek.com/roson.
Uh so you get the special stuff.
Dealseek droen or when we show you the next thing. We got a QR code in the top here. Bring up the next um bring up the next item. It's a handheld car vacuum cleaner. Um and you're going to see in the top right corner. You see that QR code right there? Just pull out your phone, open up the camera app. It's just a regular camera app on your phone. Zoom it right in to the top right corner into that QR code. That way you don't have to like type it in. Dealsee.com/roson.
There'll be a little um link that pops up. Click on that. It's going to bring you right to the Rosson reports collection on dealseek, which is where all of this is. And that's where you find the items and the promo codes. and it'll take you right to Amazon with it to go buy it. So, that's exactly how you do it. All right, tell us about this product. We got um 64% off on this one.
And you don't you don't even need a promo code. You just found this one straight up.
>> Now, this one has a a price drop plus promo code. On the page, you'll see 28% off. That's the Amazon brand selling this cordless handheld vacuum at a little bit of a discount. 28% off is a good deal. We only share the best deals.
We stacked a promo code on top. We had to test and verify promo codes until we found one that worked, but we did today.
This one gets it from 28% off all the way up to 64% off. And it's the same steps as earlier. In one click, you copy the promo code. It takes you over to Amazon. We don't play by Amazon's rules.
We're not paying 28% off for $29. We're going to get that bigger discount again.
And the final price we get is 14.50, 50, which ends up being 50% off on top of the 28% off. And so you get a great product again at number one Amazon bestseller, one sustainability feature, over 11,000 reviews, averaging 4.1 stars. Good product, great deal. Deal number two of 10 today. And again, we have so many more like this, so stay tuned.
>> Very cool. Keep your deals coming in the chat. I see them pouring in. Our deal hunters are already on it. I see they've already found some for you guys. We're going to get to it in a second. Also, hit like and subscribe on this video right now. Does us a real favor.
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Sends this out to more people in the algorithm and we want more people to save. Uh this next um item, we get questions about this every week, so we just decided to put it in. Be proactive.
This dual air fryer, eight quarts, 40% off with a promo code. But if you see, if you were to just shop on Amazon, you wouldn't get any discount.
Mhm. Exactly. $99.99 is the full retail price. Other people have been paying for this. Today, you get a 40% off. That's with the promo code at checkout. So, again, don't pay 100 bucks just because Amazon wants you to. Don't pay 100 bucks just because you're shopping on other websites and you see them for $120.
Again, now you guys know that that might not be the real price. Be a little bit smarter. Use tools like DealSeek. Copy promo codes. Use them at checkout. Make sure you're getting, again, as it says right here, the verified low price. And again, verify just now. These promo codes are always being updated. Copy the code, add it to your cart. Avoid paying full price and get it 40% off today.
>> All right, we got a Samsonite hardside expandable luggage three-piece. Um, 71% off. A lot of money off this right now.
>> Yeah, this one is just a discount.
Again, just a price drop. This is the kind of thing that you're going to see when you shop on Amazon for holidays like Prime Day, like Black Friday. Those shopping events are when you really want to look for price drops. But when you find name brand products like Samsonite, high quality products like a three p three-piece set of hard shell luggage at these competitive 71% price drops, that's when we like to include them on the DLC Cross Reports collection, too.
So, even though it's not a Prime Day or a Black Friday, when we find competitive prices as if it was Black Friday, we'll add them to the Rosson Reports collection. That's exactly what we're seeing here. And again, you can shop around, but 71% off, $200 for a three-piece set of name brand hard shell luggage is a phenomenal find. That's why we wanted to share it today.
>> All right, Monster Energy Rehab, 40% off. And this is with Subscribe and Save. And again, subscribe and save is this program, guys, if you've ever heard of it, where you can actually hit the subscribe and save. Amazon will give you money off because you're agreeing, hey, I'm going to subscribe, so send this to me. I think I'll need a new one every month, two months, 3 months, and they'll automatically send it to you. The great little secret about this that no one knows about, you can click subscribe and save when you see it as an option, save the money, whatever they're offering, and then as soon as you buy it, cancel the subscribe and save and they don't claw back the deal. You can keep the savings. So, we have one of those here, >> Jeff. Hands down, one of the most overlooked shopping strategies when it comes to Amazon. People know about promo codes now. They know where to find them on Deal Seek. People know about price drops cuz they shop on Black Friday.
People don't talk about subscribe and save enough. Let's walk through exactly how it works so people at home know how to shop a subscribe and save deal. If you're looking right now and you find one, again, if you take my screen for one second, you're going to see any item on DealSeek with a purple badge that says subscribe will let you know it's eligible for this trick. I'm going to go slow so you guys can follow. Click the button that says view deal on Amazon and it's going to pull up the product page.
Now, this works for deodorant, for shampoo, for soap, anything that Amazon thinks you're going to buy on a regular basis. And you're going to look, it doesn't look like there's a price drop.
It doesn't look like there's any wiggle room. You have to pay $27 until you scroll down here and click the subscribe and save button on the right hand side.
Clicking this is going to make this coupon eligible to help you save an extra 40% on your first subscribe and save order. Click this button. It automatically applies the subscribe and save discount. So, you're getting it 40% cheaper than anybody else. Add the subscription to your shopping cart and then at checkout you're going to get that discount. You're going to get the 40% off and you're going to enjoy the benefits of subscribe and save. In this case, you get it from $27 down to $15.
And then once you press buy now, cancel the subscription. No harm, no foul.
Amazon's not going to claw back the money. You saved 40% off on a one-time purchase, not a subscription. And again, this happens all over Amazon. You just need to know where to look.
>> All right, an adhesive shower caddy. We got 67% off with a promo code. This is a big time in the spring for the for bathroom accessories. So, what do we got?
>> Yeah, this one on the page is a 67% off promo code adhesive shower caddy. Again, we are always looking at the comments for what the live watchers are recommending, and people had so many bathroom upgrades last week, so we threw a couple into this show. Again, this one, just like the others, over 30,000 sold in the past month. Strong price drop on the page, verified low price using the Amazon price history tracking tool. And we just make it a little bit sweeter by finding an available promo code. Again, a promo code other people don't have access to, but you have access to right here. Again, the price drop on the page, it already looks convincing. So many people will search for an adhesive shower caddy naturally on Amazon. They'll find this. They'll see it's a number one bestseller, 33% off, and they'll buy it. We just know how to buy it a little bit better, a little bit smarter, and get it a little bit cheaper. In this case, you're saving more money than your mom, your dad, your sister, your brother, anybody else.
>> All right, keep your live requests coming in. We're watching the live chat.
A bunch of them are coming in and we are finding the deals on the stuff you request in real time during this show.
So, keep your live requests coming in on the chat and in the comments. All right.
Um, laser hair removal device. We got 64% off on this item with a promo code.
>> 64% off at the promo code verified low price over a,000 sold last month. You guys know how it works at this point.
Copy the promo code apply at checkout.
Avoid the price that Amazon wants you to pay. If Amazon wants to play these black hat backdoor tricky strategies to influence sellers and make them look like they have the best prices, then we're gonna we're gonna throw one back at them and make them uh cut into their margins a little bit by saving money with secret promo codes. Uh in this case, you're saving 64%.
>> Perfect. Um Monster wireless noise cancelling headphones. Another real popular one. And by the way, as you're calling that up, again, it's dealseek.com/roson if you want these deals. Or you see that QR code in the top right corner, >> just take your regular phone camera and zoom in and hit that QR code and follow the instructions in the link. Sorry, Trey.
>> Oh, no worries. Exactly. So, this is a uh this is a price drop. Now, deals change, deals expire, deals fluctuate throughout the day, but also throughout the week, the month, the year. If you look at your screenshot right now, you see 38% off. If you look at the button right underneath that, you see the coupon. Again, coupons are underrated.
All you have to do is click that button once to get the additional savings.
People are going to buy it without clicking it. If you ever see that green text there, the little orange coupon tag. Again, it's in the Amazon app or on the desktop like this. Make sure to click it. That is stacking the 38% price drop with the coupon and you save more money than anybody else.
>> So, it's not one or the other. You can get both in a lot of cases.
>> Yeah, you can stack a price drop, a coupon, and a promo code. And in some cases, you can also stack Amazon refurbished or Amazon outlet or an Amazon Lightning deal. You just got to got to be a little tricky and know what works with each other and what doesn't.
>> All right, a couple more before we get to the live requests. We got some amazing live requests from you guys today. Um, Cuptrip coffee maker 60% off.
We always get requests for coffee makers.
Yeah, we got one on the screen right now. This one is a 60% off deal. Instead of paying $179.98, you're getting it for $71.99.
And I'll explain exactly how this works.
Again, on the product page, you're going to see the price is $119.99, originally 180.
There's a coupon down here you can click to save a little bit. And then this promo here to save you even more. The final price is $71.99. Now, what is particularly interesting is if you remember, we like to shop around and we like to see what other websites are charging for these same products just to know. And in this case, we this exact same coffee drip cup, a cup drip coffee maker for $179.99. Now, if you remember, that is the original price that Amazon is selling it for. This site just offers a 10% discount. Now, on Dealsek, we offer a 60% discount. That's because these secret promo codes are only availed on. We know where to find them and we stack the price drop, the coupon, and the promo code to beat the prices on other sites.
>> I love that. And the final one we have for you before we get to the live requests is the standing desk with wheels. Bes too, you got 63% off with a secret promo code that you found. I mean, look, you can see what Amazon is offering as a discount. You're like, "Oh, that seems good." But then we doubled down on it.
>> Exactly, guys. It's an Amazon's choice product over 300 sold. Already a competitive price drop on the page. We just get it down all the way to $29.99 under the $30 threshold. 63% off because we're applying the promo codes that are not available on Amazon's page. Again, you have to go to dealseek.com/roson.
Find all of the active promo codes and apply them wisely to get these extra bits of savings.
>> All right, let's rock and roll. We got the live requests that have been coming in. Keep your comments coming and keep the join the chat and let us know what you guys are looking for. Here we go. Um Nancy Hunut is asking for a towel warmer and we found you one with a price drop and I don't know if we have a promo code for this. Let's see. But either way, we found a good one.
>> This one is a price deal. Remember these are all at dealsek.comson or the scan the QR code on your camera in the top right.
>> Exactly. Every deal we've already talked about and all the ones coming up, dealseek.com/roson.
This is a foldable tower warmer. It looks like it is portable for that reason and it is 50% off today. No promo code button means it's a price drop available to anyone. No promo code button means Amazon is selling it 50% off. It is a 90day low price. So again, if you're checking the price history, as you always should with this tool over here, you'll see it's the lowest price in 90 days. This one also happens to just have four left in stock. So only four of you are going to grab it at this price, but it's a pretty good price.
>> All right, Lynn Shidle, couple down here. Lynn Shidle is asking for a kitchen aid mixer. A kitchen aid mixer.
>> So KitchenAid obviously a huge brand.
Always hard to find. Deal. I love when you guys try to get us and you give us the exact brand. It makes it makes it challenging, but we usually we usually come to the occasion. Here we are.
KitchenAid.
>> KitchenAid artisan mini hand mixer, guys. Originally $4.49. $449.99, 27% off for $329.95. Now, if you guys have been paying attention, we don't always just trust the price we see, especially when it's a higher ticket item, say above $200, $300, take the extra minute, look at other websites, use the DLC codes, and check the price history natively on Amazon. Don't overpay, especially when it's for an expensive item. That's all the more reason to be a smarter shopper. But in this case, you get a 27% discount on a popular name brand KitchenAid item. 27% off today, which does in fact look like a good deal.
Let's talk about bed, baby. Uh Peggy is asking for a queen zippered mattress protector. And our deal hunters, and I'm looking, by the way, when I'm looking off camera, I'm looking at this. Our deal hunters just found one. You got it?
>> Yeah, we did. Cooling zippered mattress protector. Peggy, you gave us a tall order. We found a queen zippered mattress protector. This one is waterproof, $1959, 25% off, verified low price. Again, this one is either a price drop or a coupon. Again, now you guys know to keep your eye out below fold, below the price. Click the coupons down here to save a little bit of extra money. Prime free two-day shipping, good reviews, Amazon's Choice. Save a little bit more money on these.
>> All right, very cool. Let's keep going down the list here. Oh, a nugget ice maker. Always so popular. That and this is from Brenda Owens asking for a nugget ice maker. And everyone asks for these kinds. The nugget ice is like that soft ice that they serve in restaurants. This is what everyone wants. So, let's see what we found for Brenda on this.
>> Hi, Brenda from Kansas.
>> I don't know if you've heard >> I don't know if you've heard this, Jeff.
People call this Chick-fil-A ice because it resembles the ice from Chick-fil-A.
That's what I see all over my for you page.
Nugget ice maker or the Chick-fil-A ice maker. Originally 200, you get it for $149.99. That's 25% off. I want to remind you guys that if at any time there's a product that you are looking for, you can look for an ice maker using the search bar and then use all of the sorting and filtering functionality to find verified low prices. You can find a specific brand that you like. Sort by percent discount. Let's say at least 40% off. Sort by price range and my favorite, promo codes only. So, here we're going to see ice makers or shaved ice makers. 40% off or more promo codes only. And if you do know a specific brand you want, for example, people were asking for KitchenAid earlier. You can also search for your brand, see all of the discounts for KitchenAid available today. Same thing, sort it by percent discount, sort by coupons, promo codes, lightning deals, and you can see all the best deals from your favorite brands natively here as well. So, if there's a product you're looking for and you want to take initiative yourself, use the advanced filters. And if you want our deal finders recommendations, leave a comment down below. We will find the best product for your suggestion. So, keep them coming in the comments.
>> And by the way, one of the top questions we get is, is deal free to sign up? It is free. It is free to you. So, you you know, the retailers pay the fees and stuff. You're fine. You you guys get it for free. Um, all right. Um, Gwen Mcbomb is asking for a small incloset shoe rack.
>> And it looks like our deal hunters found one. Yeah. See what we got.
>> Yeah. Two-tier bamboo shoe organizer or shoe rack in the words of Gwen. And this one has a promo code again. Verified one minute ago. Verified low price. Instead of paying $26.99, which so many shoppers today are coming to Amazon and seeing the $22 price point, we're going to avoid that. We're going to add it to our cart, proceed to check out, apply the promo code, and then verify that it was active and get the discount. So, at the end of the day, you end up getting it for $1376.
Way cheaper than anybody else.
>> Very, very cool. Let's do a couple more.
Um, Laura Wulmarmac is asking for a portable charger for her phone.
Let's check it out.
>> Found one. By the way, keep these coming in, guys. Whether you're watching this live or you're watching this um on replay, no problem. If you're live, add to the comments. Join the chat. If you're um watching on replay, just make a comment. Our deal hunters are on 24/7 looking for this stuff. It's all in the Rosson Reports collection on Deal Seek.
So, and we update it all the time. Deals go away, we put in new ones. We got you.
We got >> Yeah, we've pulled one up, too. We have a phone charger. It's a USBC charger, so it's not the lightning adapter for the old iPhones. Keep that in mind. 10,000 milliamp compatible with iPhones or Androids. Power bank 50% off today.
Again, 50% off only if you're shopping with promo codes. That discount is not available on the page, but you avoid paying $26. Get it for just 13 today.
And you can also see the different product variations. if you prefer yellow, if you prefer pink, if you prefer white. Now, importantly, guys, and this comes in play a lot with clothing. People are suggesting in the comments that they want men's fashion, women's fashion, hats, and shoes.
Sometimes promo codes are specific to product variations. So, it's important to check the variations down here.
You'll see the black one has a promo. If we click into yellow, there's a price drop and it's not even that competitive.
If you click into pink, there's a promo code. A white, there might not be a promo code. So, especially when you're buying something size large versus size small or a queensiz mattress topper versus a king-size mattress topper, make sure the specific product that you're clicked into on dealseek is the one you're checking out with so that the promo code works.
>> Let's do a couple more. John Barbrey wants a car battery jumpstarter. And god, this is like a full full safety issue. Everyone should have one of these because it can happen to anyone. It's happened to me. It's very annoying and you really want one of these. You don't It's like insurance. You don't need it till you need it. And when you have it, you're thrilled.
>> I buy band-aids.
>> You don't want to cut yourself and then buy a band-aid. You want to have them ready to go. Similar principle with a car jump starter. You're going to be in this situation at some point. Why not pay $25 today to avoid the problem?
Originally $79.99, 69% off, verified low price. You get it for $25. Now, again, it's important to check the page. It's important to check the price, the price history, the ratings, the reviews. You can even check out the exact seller and what else they're selling. You can go to their website, but what you can't find on the page is a promo code. You have to be in the know to find promo codes. That's what we specialize in at Deal Seek. We get these codes so you can apply them and not pay $80. Get it for just $25 today with the price drop and the promo code.
>> Liz Feny O'Brien. We It's time to save her marriage. Lizfeny O'Brien needs her us to save her marriage. Noise snore cancelling sleep earbuds with Bluetooth.
So, she's got a snore.
>> We got We got to save all our deals foundation.
>> I can tell.
>> Yeah, >> I can tell she needs it. This is a This is a sleep headphone eye mask. I have a friend who swears by these. I personally would not want music or white noise or anything in my ears while I'm sleeping.
But to each their own, >> $29.99, 50% off with the promo code.
>> You end up getting this product again only in certain color variations for just $15 with the promo code. One click to copy, go to Amazon to paste it, redeem the discount, and you'll be saving more than anybody else. So hopefully, Lizzie, this gets the job done for you.
>> Awesome, Trey. Thank you so much, guys.
We are getting tons of your requests.
Even if we didn't mention it on the show, it is going into the Rosson reports collection. If you requested it and we found it, we have put it in there already right now live. Go to dealseek.com/roson.
Sign up. It's free and uh it's vetted by us. You're all good. And you can purchase right from in there with the promo codes, even if we didn't mention it on the show. Keep your comments coming and your requests because we update this 24/7. We don't have much of a life. And uh Trey, thank you so much.
I really appreciate it. If you enjoyed this video, uh we also did an investigation into Amazon's keep it refund. You know when you refund something and they give you your money back and they say, "Don't bother returning it to us?" It's a trap. I did a full investigation on that. Check out this video and we'll see you next time.
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