As another user replied to you earlier, yeah, it’s substantially more expensive after shipping. Nearly 50% more, in fact, but in this specific instance I wasn’t actually planning on buying this specific bit set, the price and subsequent notice of the discount just caught my eye when it was in Amazon’s list of product recommendations.
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Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Why would you order from amazon instead of directly from ifixit?
ArchRecord@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Oh that makes sense, fair enough. I didnt know amazon did this but I stopped using them a while ago so haven’t kept up.
I think its becoming more and more common knowledge that amazon isn’t cheap anymore.
Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Because you already have an account set up with amazon.
Because you’ve used amazon before and feel comfortable with them.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I mean those are legitimate answers, but people around these parts don’t take kindly to primers
Spiderwort@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
They gave me free prime. I was a god for 30 days. But ya.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Its just not a business I would recommend giving your money too, but its your choice.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The same thing is $50 there with shipping.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yeah but then ifixit gets the money instead, and amazon gets nothing. I want to pay ifixit for their stuff, not amazon. Amazon didnt do anything to deserve money from that purchase.
There are a lot of vendors who only sell through amazon though. That seems more like they are explicitly saying they prefer the amazon shop but I could be interpreting that wrong.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Most likely because they don’t wanna deal with shipping stuff