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Pedal, accessory price drops on Amazon

FretRiff

FretRiff

Feb 26, 2025
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Today I was looking in my absurdly large Amazon wishlist and I noticed that as part of 'Prime Spring Deal' Amazon has lowered prices on some pedals, accessories, and electric guitars by as much as 25%. Here are a few I found:

JOYO Octave Effect Pedal R Series with MOD Effects and Independent Octave Adjusting for Electric Guitar (XVI R-13) $71.99, down from $90

SONICAKE Bass Effects Pedals Multieffect Preamp Compressor Boost Fuzz Octave Multi Effects Pedal Boom Ave With FX Loop, also $71.99, down from $90

JOYO Built-in 4400mAh Rechargeable Battery Guitar Effect Pedal Power Supply 8 Outputs 9V 12V 18V (100mA, 500mA) Jacks & 5V/1A USB Port (JP-05) $48.44, down from $57

Donner DP-1 Guitar Power Supply 10 Isolated DC Output for 9V/12V/18V Effect Pedal $30, down from $40

MOOER GE100 Multi-Effects Guitar Pedal with 80 Presets, 66 Effects, Loop and Expression Volume Pedal, Tap Tempo, Headphone Out $73.09, down form $96

MOOER Prime P1 Multi-Effects Processor Headphone Amp , Bass Guitar Pedals with 126 Effects, Tuner, Amp, Metronome for Practice and Performance, $89.99 with coupon, down from $99.99

FLAMMA FS03 Electric Guitar Delay Effects Pedal with Looper $64.59, down from $75.99

NuX Effects NTU-3 Flow Tune MKII Guitar/Bass Tuner Pedal $59, down from $69

Donner EQ Pedal, 10 Band Equalizer Pedal, EQ Seeker for Guitar and Bass True Bypass $39.09, down from $46

GOKKO Guitar Pedal Board 13.8" x 11" with Carrying Bag (identical to 'SOYAN' brand pedal board), both $38.17, down from $45

MOOER GE200 Amp Modelling Multi Effects Pedal $209.99, down from $239

NuX Mighty Bass 50BT Digital Bass Amplifier with Bluetooth $257, down from $279

Ampeg SCRDI Bass DI Preamp with Scrambler Overdrive,Black $249.99, down from $304

Caline CP-207 Guitar Pedal Power Supply, True Isolated Pedal Board Power Supply with 10 Totally Isolated DC 9V/12V/18V Outputs(100mA/300mA/500mA) $42.80, down from $48

IK Multimedia TONEX Pedal $335.99, down from $399.99

JOYO Digital Delay Effect Pedal with Looper (5 Minutes) R Series 8 Digital Delay Effects for Electric Guitar (Aquarius R-07) $71.99, down from $89.99

Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork Polyphonic Pitch Shift Pedal $187.91 with coupon, down from $197.80

MXR Smart Gate Noise Gate $134.99, down from $150

Yamaha Revstar Standard RSS02T BL Electric Guitar with Gig Bag, $715.39 down from $850

Guild Polara Deluxe Electric Guitar $566.19, down from $688

Paranormal Esquire® Deluxe $316.10, down from $379

CAHAYA Electric Guitar Bag Gig Bag 6mm Padding Backpack Padded Soft Guitar Case Black CY0226 $31.36, down from $37
 
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One thing to keep in mind is that Amazon frequently tries to deceive us. For instance, the LEKATO Wireless Guitar System is currently on sale for 33.59, down 16%. But it usually has a 15% coupon from a lower starting price, so it's actually more expensive now that it's "on sale".

We're just talking a couple of bucks here, but they do this with all sorts of products so it adds up over time.
 
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Bevan777 said:
you may as well buy them from Ali express. The shipping will take longer but they will be considerably cheaper.
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Items may not be returnable with Ali, sellers often disappear (or reappear under different names), cheap items are often countereit, and as far as prices go under the current administration's directive to eliminate duty exemptions on low-value packages (not top mention proposed new multimillion $$ surcharges on ships landing at US ports) the USPS has proposed collecting those tariffs and fees from package recipients. So current low prices may rise soon.

I've found Amazon customer service to be really good for problems and returns. Plus, if you use the Amazon Prime VISA card all purchases made at Amazon (and Whole Foods, and Chase Travel) get an automatic 5% credit. I've bought from Ali Express before and it's been okay (and that includes de;iberately buying low-quality cheap counterfeits I knew would be worse than the real stuff [like knockoff drum keys]), but a different level entirely from 2-day free amazon shipping with order tracking.
 
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Plain Old Barry said:
Half the stuff on Amazon isn't sold by Amazon, much of it by small businesses. Most Amazon delivery routes are locally owned, too. One of my bandmates owns 20 franchised routes and does pretty well with it.
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To be fair, many small/medium size businesses sell on Amazon solely because amazon has undercut and eroded brick-and-mortar, as well as direct shipping from producer to consumer. Amazon doesn't actually produce anything, but they've manipulated the markets and consumer behaviors to force themselves into relevance.

Consider how much 'Prime' fulfillment/returns are essential to the customer. (i.e. A huge amount of amazon users will only buy items on Amazon that are shipped free/fulfilled via "Prime".) For businesses selling "Prime", the average cut Amazon gets on those sales is ~40-50%. It's a monopolized marketplace.

Also, add dynamic pricing, data collection/sales, and union busting to the list of deceptive and manipulative practices Amazon is founded on. Your buddy may do pretty well with it, but it's not a net gain for small, independent businesses or local communities.
 
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Grahams Groove said:
To be fair, many small/medium size businesses sell on Amazon solely because amazon has undercut and eroded brick-and-mortar, as well as direct shipping from producer to consumer. Amazon doesn't actually produce anything, but they've manipulated the markets and consumer behaviors to force themselves into relevance. Consider how much 'Prime' fulfillment/returns are essential to the customer. (i.e. A huge amount of amazon users will only buy items on Amazon that are shipped free/fulfilled via "Prime".) For businesses selling "Prime", the average cut Amazon gets on those sales is ~40-50%. It's a monopolized marketplace. Also, add dynamic pricing, data collection/sales, and union busting to the list of deceptive and manipulative practices Amazon is founded on.
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Not here to defend Amazon, I'm just a happy customer. Blaming Amazon for eroding brick and mortar stores is like going back to the 80s and complaining about Wal Mart which did it first (and is still doing it decades later). Amazon is just a strong competitor in the same vein. It's is a natural progression of modern business, and every day when people vote with their money where they want to buy, they lean toward lower prices and less personal attention.

Amazon are obviously not angels and I don't support union busting (though others here might) or any company's craven political toadying. Tacking on "deceptive and manipulative practices" at the end of the comment is not supported by anything written before it, and cheapens the good arguments one could make about Amazon. Amazon has dozens of house brands (This article notes 92 brands) making everything from dog food to laptop stands, to their own specs. And while data collection obviously helps them sell you things they think you want yes (everyone from Samsung to CVS do it), AFAIK Amazon does not sell the data it gets from your activity to 3rd parties.
 
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FretRiff said:
Not here to defend Amazon, I'm just a happy customer. Blaming Amazon for eroding brick and mortar stores is like going back to the 80s and complaining about Wal Mart which did it first (and is still doing it decades later). Amazon is just a strong competitor in the same vein. It's is a natural progression of modern business, and every day when people vote with their money where they want to buy, they lean toward lower prices and less personal attention.


Amazon are obviously not angels and I don't support union busting (though others here might) or any company's craven political toadying. Tacking on "deceptive and manipulative practices" at the end of the comment is not supported by anything written before it, and cheapens the good arguments one could make about Amazon. Amazon has dozens of house brands (This article notes 92 brands) making everything from dog food to laptop stands, to their own specs. And while data collection obviously helps them sell you things they think you want yes (everyone from Samsung to CVS do it), AFAIK Amazon does not sell the data it gets from your activity to 3rd parties.
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AT risk of being argumentative...

Saying that someone else employed crony-capitalist tactics first does not make subsequent use of that same strategy any better. Also, I would push back on the premise of people voting with their dollars, as that doesn't take into account the active elimination of competitors (and therefore, consumer choice). I'm sure some people will balk at this, but I highly recommend reading about the concept of 'techno-feudalism'. It's a pretty in-depth look at how a few major tech companies (Amazon, Meta, and Google for example) effectively own a vast amount of the interactive online space, and, as a result, they have an immense of amount of user data that can be used to influence behaviors well beyond what you would see from something like traditional marketing or advertising. i.e. What feels like traditional consumer/human choice can be manipulated far more than people understand or are willing to admit.

It's also worth noting that both Amazon and Walmart have been investigated by the FTC and sued multiple times for monopolistic and anti-competitive practices.

On your second point, those 'house brands' only cement the argument about anti-competitive practices. Amazon monopolizes the online superstore model. They collect consumer data for everyone on the platform. They find products where they can outsource labor/production to make cheaper goods than the companies selling those goods on their platform (typically in countries with highly exploitive labor practice). They make those copies of existing items at scale and then introduce their own house brands to undercut existing companies. To take it a step further, they can use their control of listing priority, product placement, user data, and dynamic pricing to ensure that they're outselling and undercutting those existing brands and products. To my original point, Amazon didn't start out as a producer of any goods. They only introduced those few house brands where they saw opportunities to undercut competition and increase their own profits. A bunch of those house brands are blatant copies of existing products.

Finally, there are a number of cases where amazon employees were found to be selling data. Amazon also 'provide' data to partners, which obviously is not something they're doing out of goodwill. It's in trade for other data, market advantages, etc. It may not have a dollar amount attached to it, but it's tantamount to selling user data.
 
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FretRiff said:
- Amazon bad: they don't make anything.

- Actually they do.

- Even worse!

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What a compelling and well thought out response.

Amazon did not gain dominance by producing a new or innovative product that consumers needed. You can pretend to be obtuse about the points I'm making, but you're only making yourself feel better.
 
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