The Fake Deal Index · week of Oct 5
8%
of this week’s “deals” weren’t real.
We scanned 1,726 advertised Amazon deals for week of Oct 5. 139 weren’t meaningfully below their usual price.
Week over week
Fakest categories this week
Office27% fake
Furniture24% fake
Health12% fake
Home & Kitchen10% fake
Video Games7% fake
Toys & Games7% fake
Beauty6% fake
Pet Supplies5% fake
Tools4% fake
Sports & Outdoors4% fake
Computers3% fake
Electronics1% fake
Shoes & Apparel0% fake
Busted this week
- U Brands Farmhouse Linen Bulletin Board, 40" x 30", White Wood … — $70 is basically its everyday $63
- Quality Park 9-1/2 x 12-1/2 Catalog Mailing Envelopes, Redi-Sea… — $24 is basically its everyday $22
- Happy Haul Disney Stitch Remix’d Plush, Two-Toned Character Col… — $15 is basically its everyday $14
- YouTheFan NCAA South Dakota Coyotes 2’ x 3’ All Wood Cornhole — $108 is basically its everyday $99
- Moleskine Volant Journal, Large, Ruled, Coral Orange/Aquamarine… — $15 is basically its everyday $13
How this is measured
- Sample: 1,726 advertised Amazon deals this week, stratified across 13 categories (scanned per-category, then pooled).
- “Busted” = today’s price is not meaningfully below the item’s usual (90-day) price — within 8% of it or higher, a “discount” off an inflated or invented “was”.
- Source: our own price research — the figure can’t be bought.
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