I agree w/ dx23, that's not the experience I've had/seen.

Some crystal that I was following went from $6 to $10 sometime on the afternoon of the 17th.

I, too, noticed that the price of most of the BDs and DVDs in my wish list had gone up this morning. I keep them there to track prices and most days a few will go up and a few will go down. This is the first time I've seen nearly all of them (15) go up and none go down.

I am curious to see whether this is a temporary move or whether Amazon is instituting a "new normal" of higher base pricing.

Yeah, me too. I put stuff in my cart and on my wish list so that it will be offered as a gold box special.

Amazon is in the drug business?

I noticed that quite a few books that were discounted 25-30% are now discounted at around 10%.

I treat my Amazon Wish List like my own private stock market.
I love to watch the prices rise and fall, and I'm always nervous if I should buy or wait to see if it goes lower...

So not everything.

Yeah, I'll have to agree with others and say that it is the complete opposite of that.

I find that having items on the wish list makes them far more likely to show up in the Gold Box. Every day there are usually 1 to 4 items from my list.

The last couple of weeks the price of over a hundred of my items has jumped up considerably. I have purchased heavily from Amazon over the years and have never seen this to this degree before. It may indicate some change in Amazons profitability or change in business philosophy or just a strange coincidence. Since I have spend many, many thousands of dollars at Amazon, I am looking at this as a break for my wallet.

Yeah, I have about....100 Blus in my save for later cart....soooo many of them had risen. Usually it's not like that...maybe 15 or so do the rise or fall in price but this was nuts. Was there any official reason to do it?

I've noticed that they are shipping as fast as ever even with free shipping. Before they would hold the order for a week(which was beyond stupid). Now they are shipping most of my orders within 24 hrs.

Same for me. My Amazon wish list is a price research tool and it is fun to watch the fluctuations. I check them every day.

I thought they waited till I bought it before they put it in the gold box.

Ummm... no... not true. I currently have 3 titles in my "Gold Box" that are also in my cart... along with items I'd never purchase and don't know just why they are there as I've never purchased anything in that category (today it's a "Manual Hand Pruner" - just why I'd want to prune a hand escapes me... ). This is pretty typical on my account.

My God, this is TRUE. I checked 15 or so random Blu titles, and EVERY one was as high as I've ever seen on Amazon, some only 5- 10% off MSRP! Amazon won't sell many copies of NORTH FACE (2008) at $36.99 or Sin City at $29.99!

This is very disturbing. What does it mean? I hope they lose their shirts and that this backfires big time!

Hurt Locker went from 22.99 to 24.99 yesterday and then back to 22.99 today. They did have a big sale going which I believe expired 3/18. I'm guessing they are just in between sales. Some of the price increases were rediculous.

Clearly it's one of the signs of the apocalypse!

Its a Blu-ray tax to help pay for the new health care bill.

North Face was never released in the US. This is a UK Blu-ray and the extras will be SD PAL!!

Hmm... they must have changed something in the past 6 months or so. I was following tips on another board, and at the time as soon as I removed shit from my wish list things started showing up in my Gold Box. I still keep a Wish List and not once has anything from it shown up in my Gold Box. Odd.

I have many DVDs on my wish list and they never appear on my Gold Box either. I check it everyday along with my wish list to see the up and down prices. Most of the stuff on my Gold Box are based on what I purchased in the past. One day, I bought the New Jack City DVD and the next day it seemed like every major urban 90s movie was on my gold box. Menace II Society, Juice, Boy N Da Hood, and Poetic Justice.

Lots of wishlist items show up in my gold box.

Something is going on for sure, the prices at Amazon have not been good for awhile. They used to be 30-40% off more frequently. The number of bargains has decreased for sure. I think its something to do with DVD pricing in general. Look at DD, they are almost useless now