So I needed some small plastic things that hold up a shelf in my kitchen cabinets. I had to look them up by their patient number. They were easy to find but they all had to be shipped--shipped to the store for pick up or to my house for more than they cost.

But amazon had them...cool! But where is the checkout button? What? It is an add on item? So the total has to be $35? What? Lame! But wait! I have not yet pre-ordered an album I want (an obscure one hit wonder from the 80 called Prince) So I add the CD and then it says check out. So I do. It says you will not be charged until the item ships. Then it says the clips had been shipped! And then the price of the CDs was reduced. I ordered yesterday and I got a text it is out for delivery....and they charged $4.33 on my CC.

Not only did i manage to get them shipped for free but I bypassed the need to buy something else and I will get the CDs shipped for free too.

It is crazy!

OnlyNDaUsa said:

So I needed some small plastic things that hold up a shelf in my kitchen cabinets. I had to look them up by their patient number. They were easy to find but they all had to be shipped--shipped to the store for pick up or to my house for more than they cost.

But amazon had them...cool! But where is the checkout button? What? It is an add on item? So the total has to be $35? What? Lame! But wait! I have not yet pre-ordered an album I want (an obscure one hit wonder from the 80 called Prince) So I add the CD and then it says check out. So I do. It says you will not be charged until the item ships. Then it says the clips had been shipped! And then the price of the CDs was reduced. I ordered yesterday and I got a text it is out for delivery....and they charged $4.33 on my CC.

Not only did i manage to get them shipped for free but I bypassed the need to buy something else and I will get the CDs shipped for free too.

It is crazy!

Amazon rocks. if you pay 99$ per year, you become a 'Prime' member, and you always get free shipping on discounted items. i've been saving time by buying things like potting soil, hardware items, electronics, and furnace filters online. get them the next day delivered to my home

in the old days i'd have to spend a Saturday afternoon driving around, Home Depot for the potting soil, Best Buy for the cable, burning gas and jostling around on the roads.

now, (mind you, in spring i love the hardware store so i a lways go in person) but now in the deep of Minnesota winter when no one wants to drive i just click on buttons and the boxes arrive at my doorstep the next day.

not to mention, with Prime there are tons of movies to stream. Amazon is better than Netflix now imo, because on Netflix if it's not available on subscription you're out of luck. with Amazon, you can purchase download/viewing of movies (Dr. Strange etc.) and pay a one-time fee for like Walking Dead episodes, available through Amazon the next night after they are broadcast.

the bad thing is, there are people who drive around following the Amazon delivery vans an stealing whatever the driver leaves on said doorstep so, there's that.

overall imo: Amazon 9.9 stars out of 10

728huey said:

I lie Amazon a lot. But unfortunately I've had to change when I order from there because I had a couple of orders which either didn't show up when they said they did, or someone has been stealing my orders when they arrive at my apartment and I am at work. That basically means I have to order stuff on Thursdays so it arrives when I'm at home on Saturday. I'm sort of pissed now because I saw some bed frame on Amazon that I wanted to order, but it was shipping on a day when I would be at work, so I tried looking for something like it I could find locally and buy some time today or tomorrow, but not a single place even had it, including the chain mattress and bedding stores in town.

can you have some stuff sent to your work?

OnlyNDaUsa said:

Out of curiosity, is Amazon the only major shopping site in the US?? Like, - any competitors?

..btw, just to carry on from my previous post - I don't know what discounts Amazon gives in the US, but I take it it has a *reputation* for doing that, right? Well - Mr. Bezos is worth $78 billion, if I remember the figure correctly!!!! BILLION!! So obviously, the discounts are not high enough, and - if the other retailers are even MORE expensive, then there's Something Funny Going On!!! Something REALLY weird!

domainator2010 said:

Out of curiosity, is Amazon the only major shopping site in the US?? Like, - any competitors?

here are some others but frankly some of them are much more limited or are not direct sales... for me amazon us the best of them all.

domainator2010 said:

..btw, just to carry on from my previous post - I don't know what discounts Amazon gives in the US, but I take it it has a *reputation* for doing that, right? Well - Mr. Bezos is worth $78 billion, if I remember the figure correctly!!!! BILLION!! So obviously, the discounts are not high enough, and - if the other retailers are even MORE expensive, then there's Something Funny Going On!!! Something REALLY weird!

for one a value of a company is not always based on how much profit it makes. Look at google and yahoo! Or ebay! The value of Mr. Bezos may be based on what its shares are being sold for.

It's a dirty monopoly.

XxAxX said:

OnlyNDaUsa said:

So I needed some small plastic things that hold up a shelf in my kitchen cabinets. I had to look them up by their patient number. They were easy to find but they all had to be shipped--shipped to the store for pick up or to my house for more than they cost.

But amazon had them...cool! But where is the checkout button? What? It is an add on item? So the total has to be $35? What? Lame! But wait! I have not yet pre-ordered an album I want (an obscure one hit wonder from the 80 called Prince) So I add the CD and then it says check out. So I do. It says you will not be charged until the item ships. Then it says the clips had been shipped! And then the price of the CDs was reduced. I ordered yesterday and I got a text it is out for delivery....and they charged $4.33 on my CC.

Not only did i manage to get them shipped for free but I bypassed the need to buy something else and I will get the CDs shipped for free too.

It is crazy!

Amazon rocks. if you pay 99$ per year, you become a 'Prime' member, and you always get free shipping on discounted items. i've been saving time by buying things like potting soil, hardware items, electronics, and furnace filters online. get them the next day delivered to my home

in the old days i'd have to spend a Saturday afternoon driving around, Home Depot for the potting soil, Best Buy for the cable, burning gas and jostling around on the roads.

now, (mind you, in spring i love the hardware store so i a lways go in person) but now in the deep of Minnesota winter when no one wants to drive i just click on buttons and the boxes arrive at my doorstep the next day.

not to mention, with Prime there are tons of movies to stream. Amazon is better than Netflix now imo, because on Netflix if it's not available on subscription you're out of luck. with Amazon, you can purchase download/viewing of movies (Dr. Strange etc.) and pay a one-time fee for like Walking Dead episodes, available through Amazon the next night after they are broadcast.

the bad thing is, there are people who drive around following the Amazon delivery vans an stealing whatever the driver leaves on said doorstep so, there's that.

overall imo: Amazon 9.9 stars out of 10

I always thought the 99 dollars was high- but I was just thinking books- I never thought of big things like potting soil and electronics- that is a good deal! Maybe I should start getting those things delivered to my doorstep....

why are they evil?

...can someone please explain to me how a company that sells my toilet paper can also do TV shows???!!! ..And how it has been ALLOWED to, ie. consumers accepted it...? ..There's a limit to conglomeration, right....?

domainator2010 said:

lool said:

Oh, you're fine. They're lovely to their customers.

I bet they are. But tell us, what kind of monsters are they?

EmmaMcG said:

domainator2010 said:

...can someone please explain to me how a company that sells my toilet paper can also do TV shows???!!! ..And how it has been ALLOWED to, ie. consumers accepted it...? ..There's a limit to conglomeration, right....?

There shouldn't be a limit, in my opinion.

You're *absolutely* mad.

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domainator2010 said:

Yeah - all that is the businessman's point of view, not MINE - the VIEWER'S!! Now, what the fuck do I care how much money you have or not - if the same place is in charge of selling TP and in charge of - not just selling art, but also (MY GOOD GOD!) curating it!! then..... I ain't GOING there! Has the public gone CRAZY-FUCKING-MAD???!!!

domainator2010 said:

NO. This behaviour is NOT to be championed.


....jus waitin' till Justin Bieber's or Haylee Steinfeld's or Sia's toilet paper biz opens..... (that's just another DIVISION, right?)

domainator2010 said:

I'd like Amazon more if they paid their UK tax bill ...

EmmaMcG said:

domainator2010 said:

NO. This behaviour is NOT to be championed.


....jus waitin' till Justin Bieber's or Haylee Steinfeld's or Sia's toilet paper biz opens..... (that's just another DIVISION, right?)

Exactly. There's nothing wrong with it. Why do you think people shouldn't expand into other territories? What harm does it do? And what makes you believe that a musician setting up his own store to sell his own music and merchandise is less favourable than having another company do it for him and taking the majority of the profits.

I can picture the slogan now - "Try Bieberettes 2-ply today. Love Yourself."

domainator2010 said:

Cmon, that deserved at least a LOL, not a normal smiley...? I thought it was a Really Good One.... (u ain't gonna like, nick my slogan or nuthin, are ya?)

domainator2010 said:

Yup!