Comment on Amazon Artificially Discounting Items $0.01 Below the Free Shipping Limit

• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I need a $40 screwdriver and 12v battery

  They reduce the price of the screwdriver kit $4 to make it not free shipping on it’s own

  I buy them both for $40.

  I would have to buy them anyway, I spent $40 instead of $45 and still got “free shipping”

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  • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If they bundled the item with a pack of batteries in a retail store and sold it for 39.99, would you still consider it cheaper?

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Would you consider $39.99 cheaper than $45?

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    • Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      not the person you responded to but, would depend if that’s the only thing I’m getting, gas costs money, I defo wouldn’t concider that small of a discount saving money since it will cost me about 6 or 7$ in gas getting there and back

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• WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s still cheaper than it would have been without Amazon’s discount

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  • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cheaper on Amazon, or anywhere else?

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    • Nikelui@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Both

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      • underisk@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        How? You cannot buy this “cheaper” version without spending more money. It’s 39.99 with free shipping other places. It’s $39.99 on Amazon because you have to pay for shipping. You’re not saving money, you’re just getting more stuff from Amazon.

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• dingus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Supposed you were going to buy batteries elsewhere anyway. So you saved money by doing it in one go there.

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