I used to be shopping Amazon at the moment and got here throughout this itemizing for the Kobo Nia, and it’s promoting for an absurd $389.68 from Triplenet Pricing, a reseller that’s been round for years and at present has over 70,000 objects listed on Amazon, in order that they’re not just a few new scammer itemizing.
You see this type of factor on Amazon on a regular basis, the place sellers are charging far more for one thing than it’s value, and I don’t perceive how anybody may very well be dumb sufficient to fall for it. Perhaps it’s the extremely rich that simply don’t care or don’t have a fundamental understanding of what stuff prices, however listings like this definitely can’t have a excessive conversion charge, if they’ve a conversion charge in any respect.
The Kobo Nia was launched in 2020 with a retail value of $99 USD. There’s no approach it ought to ever promote for wherever near $389. That’s simply insane.
It’s not simply the Kobo Nia that Triplenet Pricing is making an attempt to get wealthy off of; additionally they have the Kobo Libra Color listed for $285.44 (the true value is meant to be $229), and the Kobo Elispa 2E is $520.19 (the true retail value is $399). They’re overcharging for Kobo covers and styli as effectively.
Why would anyone purchase Kobo’s ereaders at these ridiculous costs? Why do sellers even trouble with such outlandish asking costs when the identical objects might be bought for a lot much less from retailers who aren’t value gouging? In lots of instances the identical actual objects are listed on Amazon for much less, so it’s not like folks need to scour the depths of the web to discover a lower cost someplace else.
It is not sensible, and it simply looks as if a waste of time for all events concerned, however apparently it’s all value it if they’ll simply discover a number of idiots to pay the asking value with out looking out round first.
