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.

    • @KbobabobEnglish
      22•9 days ago

      The same thing is $50 there with shipping.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•8 days ago

        Yeah but then ifixit gets the money instead, and amazon gets nothing. I want to pay ifixit for their stuff, not amazon. Amazon didnt do anything to deserve money from that purchase.

        There are a lot of vendors who only sell through amazon though. That seems more like they are explicitly saying they prefer the amazon shop but I could be interpreting that wrong.

    • ArchRecordOPEnglish
      8•8 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.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•8 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•8 days ago

      Because you already have an account set up with amazon.

      Because you’ve used amazon before and feel comfortable with them.