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
    21·
    1 month ago

    That set is normally 39.95 off iFixit’s site.

    They knocked off $3.38 i’d just go add a pack of duracels 2032’s and get them for almost nothing, free shipping.

    TBF, I usually have something sitting in my cart that I didn’t feel like ordering yet anyway.

    • underisk@lemmy.mlEnglish
      16·
      1 month ago

      So they’re getting you to buy more than you wanted or pull the trigger on something you were waiting on. Sounds like this is still a win for Amazon.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        1 month 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.