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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.
Why would you order from amazon instead of directly from ifixit?
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.
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.
Order something really fucking heavy extra and refund it.
Easy fix, don't buy from Amazon.
I try to when I can, but I tend to have major difficulties doing so.
I tried Ebay, they restricted my account and said the only way for me to get it un-restricted was to buy a product from a limited set of brand-new partner suppliers (e.g. Logitech, HP, etc) that were all over $100, and nothing I actually needed.
I tried buying some chargers from Anker and they also restricted me and said they wouldn't let me make a purchase because my email seemed suspicious (I don't use Gmail), so I had to go back to Amazon and buy it there instead for practically the same price, even though it would have actually been cheaper on Anker's own website since they had a discount code that would have worked for my order.
I bought something on Target because I'd been given a Target gift card, Target cancelled my order 3 times and made me contact customer service to remove an invisible hold on my account.
I frequently try checking third-party sites for the same products, and the prices are way higher (e.g. A product I plan on purchasing is $80 on the manufacturer's site, and $58 on Amazon, with the price frequently dropping to $38) because Amazon literally mandates that the cheapest price must be on Amazon. Often times, these price differences are so drastic that I could end up paying double for the same product.
I also tend to get Amazon gift cards from relatives even though they already know I dislike using Amazon when I don't have to, so it's often somewhat unavoidable.
Don't get me wrong, those are just the worst instances so far. I've bought quite a few items from elsewhere before without issues, it's just that I tend to have the occasional issue that makes it practically impossible to buy elsewhere.
Believe me, I do my best to not have to spend money on Amazon, but it's either so drastically more expensive that it's simply not reasonable to buy elsewhere, or for various reasons I mentioned before, I'm not even capable of placing an order in the first place.
What in the world are you doing to get restricted and cancelled at different sites?
Yeah fr, I do lots of my online shoping with a vpn, an adblocker, blocking non-necessary java scripts and using my own e-Mail domain or a temporary adress from my provider and have never been blocked or got restricted.
Stop using Amazon
I've switched to eBay. The delivery time is often the same and the returns are ok too
People didn't know this? I mean Amazon is evil shit. But companies have been doing stuff like this for 30 years...
I'd just never seen this specific flavor of bullshittery from them before. Encouraging sellers to keep prices below the shipping limit is one thing, but adding discounts artificially no matter what the actual seller prices their product at is a whole new level of making things worse for everyone involved.
Sellers have a lower likelihood of a non-Prime member buying their item, users don't get free shipping.
I am confused by this thread, do you only have Amazon and eBay in US?
temu/aliexpress - same product and you are skipping jeff bezos pockets
Or just avoid buying from megacorpos directly.
good luck for niche items
Or even common ones that aren't the biggest sellers.
It's getting increasingly hard to find things locally, and frequently I'm left ordering things online after going to 3 different stores in town trying to find something specific. More than once it's been a replacement or a refill of something I bought locally a few years ago.
It's not a matter of "oh well Menards has the screws the right size but they're Phillips drive." It's "this size is only available online, if you order from us it'll take 6 days or more. Might still be Phillips idk." And Amazon can get me what I need tomorrow.
Sometimes the local prices are insane too.
I needed a new infrared thermometer the other day; cheapest one I could find locally that wasn't a kids medical forehead thermometer with a tiny temperature range: $56 before tax.
Amazon shipped one for $25 incl tax+shipping.
I'm broke af atm. That makes a huge difference. I feel dirty even opening the app/site; but that price difference is absurd.
That set is normally 39.95 off iFixit's site.
They knocked off $3.38 i'd just go add a pack of duracels 2032's and get them for almost nothing, free shipping.
TBF, I usually have something sitting in my cart that I didn't feel like ordering yet anyway.
So they're getting you to buy more than you wanted or pull the trigger on something you were waiting on. Sounds like this is still a win for Amazon.
Almost everything on Amazon you can also find on eBay. Sometimes it is a couple of bucks more expensive, but it's usually due to shit like this. Haven't bought on Amazon for 4 years now.
I've actually added very low cost items to my cart, made sure free returns from Amazon only, and returned it. Two can play that game Amazon!