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.

  • Bigou
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    12 days ago

    Can’t say I find this surprising, especially not coming from a #GAMAM. (Formerly #GAFAM)

    • @3laws
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      32 days ago

      In my day it was FAANG

      • Bigou
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        32 days ago

        That is a far more funny acronym. Especially for a Frenchy like me, since my peoples often say of the ones controlling such big corporations, “they have fangs so long, they scratch the floor”. (Well… “They scratch the parquet”, to be exact. But who care if the floor is made of wood or not at that point.)

    • @Imhotep
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      2 days ago

      wouldn’t it be AAMAM because Alphabet?

      I say we keep the word we know

      • Bigou
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        -12 days ago

        Except all of Alphabet entreprises have a name starting by Google. (Or at least strongly evocating it, in the case of Gmail.)

        We can’t say the same about Meta. Instagram isn’t called “Facebook Gallery”, and Threads isn’t called “Facebook Short Messages”. (And Oculus didn’t become “Facebook VR”, just Meta.)

        • @dariusj18
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          62 days ago

          No, those are Google products, Alphabet is Google’s parent company and also holds many other companies like Waze and Doubleclick.

          • Bigou
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            12 days ago

            Except the team behind Waze was merged with the one behind Google Maps, they just keep the two apps separated (for now) to prevent any backlash. Same with Doubleclick and Google Adds. (In fact, I’ve got the impression Doubleclick became nothing more than an alias for Google Adds. And for quite some time, I might add.)