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.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    yeah, if you’re buying from a single retailer. There are a lot of places that sell products online, and they’re all very accessible. The only thing stopping you from using them is literally your own laziness.

    Physical retailers is more of a limit, since there are only ever so many. But that’s part of the utility of something like the postal system.

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        2 days ago

        who are these amazing ethical retailers with a wide selection of available products that can be delivered virtually anywhere in the US in less than a week at a reasonable price?

        > why does this large conglomerate mega corp not have any ethical small business competition

        you need to reality check yourself, and either pay more for shipping, or just accept that sometimes things arrive a little bit slower than convenient. If you have amazon prime you already know about this.

        IDK why people expect services that are entirely separate and different to be the exact same, it’s like they’ve never gone outside before.

        As for your ethical reflection into my purchases, i do not care, as i am anti humanist. I simply do not have a leg in the race, whether i die or not is irrelevant. As for my phone, i didn’t pay any money for it, it was free. And my computer, or computers, are built by me, from hardware that i bought, with my own money.

        With the exception of my thinkpad collection (entirely secondhand) most of that hardware has been purchased new, as that is generally how people buy computer hardware.

        Also to be fully transparent, i don’t believe i ever stated that i am an ethical consumer (i am in some aspects, i just don’t buy very many things, especially useless things, i’m a utilitarian) but for the things i do buy, i don’t spend much time thinking about it for the aforementioned reasons.

          • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            2 days ago

            if we’re talking branding, AMD, EVGA, asus, and a handful of other similar companies. You could argue they’re unethical if you wanted, but again, i’m literally not an ethical consumer. And also, there are no alternatives.

            Buying things used/second hand subverts the ethical consumption problem from the get go. So.

              • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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                2 days ago

                im not judging you for being incapable of using websites that dont start with amazon, and end in .com, you can do whatever you want, im just pointing out that you have a very silly opinion of how online retailing works.

                It’s ok to lurk and just shut up.

                yeah but then i miss interactions like this one.

      • Ledivin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 days ago

        It’s not lazy. You just have no perspective.

        Nah, fuck that, you’re just lazy and entitled. Obviously sometimes things come up, but why does everything have to ship in less than a week? Amazon doesn’t even have the best price on 95% of shit anymore, and hasn’t for years - ditching Amazon has saved me money on nearly every single item, I just have to wait slightly longer for them.

        You can support nazis if you want - it’s not illegal, despite every rational perspective in the world. But don’t blame your support on bullshit like “I can’t think ahead more than two days.”