Ask HN: Have you noticed increasing prices on Amazon UK?

1 pointsabusaidm4y ago2 comments

I have been observing prices on amazon.co.uk and was expecting prices to increase slightly as a one off from the Brixt due to changes on how things are done between the UK and EU especially on EU imported products or ones shipped from EU directly.

Recently I have been reviewing the items I buy frequently like vitamins and creams from Amazon some of which are made in the UK, I have notices their prices have increasing every 1-2 month, that one product jumped 42% from £6.00 to £9.99 over a 2 months period. This is not a who off jump it has been incremental and many products have become expensive in similar manner. I don't want to rush to conclusions, but is this Amazon becoming expensive as it gets larger and sellers feel like they cemented their positions?

My thoughts are this is related to Brixit? or COVID? or Supply chain constraints? or inflation ? or all of the above?

I haven't been tracking other sites so I don't know if they went through a similar price hike in such a short time.

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znpy4y ago

> My thoughts are this is related to Brixit?

Do you mean Brexit?

It probably is. Have you made comparison with other stores, either in-person or on-line ?

Btw this is one of the consequences of brexit. Importing goods now takes more time and more work, and the price of those are incorporated in the final price of products.

abusaidmOP4y ago

Yes, I mean Brexit.

As I noted, I understand that some products would increase in price due to Brexit but that would be EU provided products and I would have thought as a one off increase rather than incremental increase every Month.

I haven't ran a similar comparison given I don't keep track of the receipts of good from other places. Amazon orders page reports the price I bought with every time.

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