Amazon degraded shopping- you have to put in cart to see the price

Recently about half of the items sold to me as "New" have arrived used or counterfeit. The sellers have 5-star ratings, despite numerous reviews about receiving used or fake products. Unfortunately, Amazon crosses out these negative reviews and doesn't count them toward the overall seller rating.

This is just an Amazon site issue, lots of things are broken right now. This problem specifically appears to be caused by the site not being able to determine your location to ship to.

I thought that was the default behavior. I think in terms of engineering, it sort of makes sense. Since a product can have multiple sellers. I am sure they could change it. My gripe was making a list for example, and wanting to see the total before adding to cart. It is PITA nevertheless. I am sure there is some psychology behing it like once you put it in cart, they give you a "cheaper" price you have nothing to compare it against. I've logged in with different accounts before and saw different prices. These days I try to buy local as much as I can.

This is a known dark pattern called "price anchoring friction." By hiding the price until cart, Amazon forces comparison shopping to happen inside their ecosystem rather than on Google. You can't screenshot-compare a price that doesn't exist. It's deliberate, not broken.

Tried mobile app, mobile website, desktop website

Cannot place an order to ship (!)

I'm having the same issue. But it's more than that at this point.

Once I worked out what I wanted to purchase, clicking the "Proceed to Checkout " button returns a "Sorry, something went wrong" error.

So not only are there issues with getting prices, one (at least me) can't even buy what they want.

It's not a huge deal (for me at least). Hopefully it will be resolved soon.

I just noticed this happening on bed frames that I'm looking for. First time I've seen it happen where the top 20 results refused to show a price. It's absolutely stupid.

I just started having this problem too. Items which were in my cart have a price but when I click ok the item, the prices keep loading forever.