Amazon gives non-Prime members free shipping at $35 or more of eligible items. Instead of simply letting users get the product with free shipping, they’ve added a discount that prices it exactly one cent below the $35 limit, while only subsidizing the price with $3.38, which is about half of what they’ll then charge you for shipping.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    162·
    4 days ago

    Saved me $4, I’m fine with it.

    We need another amazon to beat the existing amazon up, retail sales are just bloated and dead.

    OR, how about we start getting mom and pop shops to do local ecommerse with delivery.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6·
        4 days 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”

        • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
          21·
          4 days 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?

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

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