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Talking about switched prices: I read recently about Amazon and Squaretrade. Apparently, Amazon pulls in the Squaretrade warranty price dynamically when it renders the page for an item; and Squaretrade uses some sophisticated model to determine the price. So if you add it to your cart when you're buying the item, you are not guaranteed to get the same price you saw; the price of the warranty in the cart can often be much higher.

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That's pretty damn shady if true.

Also likely illegal in Europe at least. There have been cases of prices magically increasing as items are moved to the cart/checkout, and companies have been fined (see EasyJet for one example).

I've had this with orders on Amazon in the past year or so, though every time in my favor. I mean, it's a nice surprise to end up paying 10% to 15% less than your were ready for, but I am always puzzled WHY exactly I have been chosen as the recipient of this kindness.

Here are screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/qGLAc

Seems like a legit case of bait-n-switch to me. Granted, it's not a lot of money, but still something to lookout for.

I was able to reproduce that. In fact I witnessed THREE prices, one of the item page, another on an "add coverage" popup and a third in the basket.

That's really shady.

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