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.zip
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      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”

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        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?

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      4 days ago

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