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

• Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ebay, Etsy, and the manufacturer direct are great places to go too

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those have their own issues.

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s literally not even hard, but yes you have to put some minor effort into it

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “Not convenient”? Have you any idea what it’s like to live in the rural south? It’s Walmart, Amazon, or just fucking die out here.

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    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Or any other online store? I have seen very few that won’t ship via USPS and USPS delivers everywhere.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        For twice the price, triple the wait time, and if you juggle like 40 accounts sure.

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      • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        USPS charges a not insignificant amount for shipping heavy items to Alaska (excluding media mail that frequently takes months and few retailers ever use). If physical stores sold anything at a reasreasonable price (aside from off season fishing /hunting /cold equipment) fewer people would use Amazon.

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• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  there are a lot of companies that sell things direct to consumer, using the exact same shipping infrastructure that amazon would otherwise be using, if it doesnt already.

  If you live rurally, go campaign for funding the USPS more, trump fucked that one, you can thank him for that.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “If you don’t have access to even remotely consistent alternatives than just go solve the USPS for us” fuck off

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    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      thats the thing though, at that point the USPS is already going to be a problem, in literally every form of online order you make.

      Amazon even uses USPS in some places from what i can remember, they mostly use their in house shit when it’s financially competitive.

      And yes, the USPS is fundamental infrastructure, it is critically important to the functionality of the US as a whole. It’s the sole reason mail based communication even works. Without the USPS the federal government and most state governments lose a lot of power.

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      • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t disagree with any of this but I also dont get the relevance. Amazon is what we have access to. That and Walmart.

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t. It’s called Wal-Mart, last hope of democracy

  Wait

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