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.

  • ArchRecord@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    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.

    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days 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.