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by sebsebmc 1174 days ago
I had this come up recently, the issue is that it seems that products with multiple "styles" will show the same alert across all "styles". The problem is that often times the "styles" may be significantly different products, in my case they were monitors with extremely different specs all from the same manufacturer.
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This is probably not the correct use of the "styles" feature on Amazon in the first place.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm betting Amazon would prefer items with different specs to be different listings, with styles being limited to differences like color, finish, etc.

Like how sellers on eBay throw an unrelated product in as a "style" or some such so that their listings go to the lowest price without actually selling the price you searched for the low amount? Annoys me constantly.
Yeah that’s annoying. Then I read reviews and they’re all for a wildly different product because they decided to list 10 under the same item