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| There's lots of reasons, and since Covid I have seen larger (and more often) price swings on Amazon vs anywhere.
If you don't really need something, put it in your cart (or save for later, NOT a wish list). Sometimes the price can change, sometimes up, sometimes down. Kinda neat to see really.
For that particular watch, I bet it is finally out of model stock, it's been discontinued and the seller is cleaning up stock. Maybe?? Wal Mart online shows it as out of stock.
A watch I bought from Casio, no longer in production for some time now is STILL available at Amazon, but the prices are getting extreme for it. I believe some sellers are hoping to make that last bit of profit on their last few items. A printer for my FIL did the same thing. A few years out of production, but still available for 3x what it was when originally purchased and 3x what a similar printer is now. If I REALLY wanted that particular printer, yes I could still get it, but I was going to have to PAY.
Things I bought a year or less ago are now much more now than then when I originally purchased them. Random thing. Sometimes it's office supplies, sometimes a tool.
I have even caught their search engine cheating. I look for something, and find what I want, but at what I feel to be an odd seller (no quick ship options are a flag) or it's maybe more than what I feel it should be.
I'll then go back to Google and do a search and lo and behold from Amazon, a completely DIFFERENT seller selling what I was looking for at a sometimes better price and sometimes with Prime shipping. Not always, but sometimes.
It just happened on Friday. I was looking for a replacement oil pressure gauge for a Murphy system. I found one on Amazon early last week before I got sick for X price delivered in a few days - I remembered. Friday I no longer had that listing, but the model and searched using their engine. I found it from a seller for a near-ish price, but with shipping a week or more away. Well I REMEMBERED a shorter shipping option when looking Monday so I used Google (where most online part searches start or end (good or bad)) and looked there.
Lo and Behold I found a completely DIFFERENT listing on A that did NOT come up on THEIR search. I think about the same price, but DEFINITELY shipped faster as I remembered.
I always check. Unless the price I am satisfied with. Things like above are happening more and more.
Several years ago I found a grain leg drive Gilmer belt for about $250 on Amazon. My FIL said the last time he bought it a few years before it was near $750 from a brick an mortar store. I couldn't get it bought fast enough and it WAS really that inexpensive for the correct product - not a fake. I immediately went back and tried to find another at that price or ANYWHERE close, to no avail. It was available immediately again, but this time it was well over $1,000.
I always chalked that up to maybe that was the last one I bought of a NOS stock batch perhaps and the seller or a different one had them for the going market price vs the one I may have purchased as a price that "fell through the cracks".
I've really only seen something like that a few times, that was the biggest price swing and cheapest one I remember.
Bottom line is I almost always price shop Amazon ESPECIALLY for something 100,000 other people wouldn't be looking for such as hardware or specific parts.
Sometime I DO get lucky still, sometimes not. Hardware has a nasty habit of being either priced very well OR priced 10% more than what a local mom and pop hardware store 50 miles from me would have to charge to make their margin.
Just my observations from over the years.
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