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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      92 months ago

      You have to select “prime eligible” items. Are these penny ebooks included in the minimum purchase total?

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        42 months ago

        I don’t want to deal with their abysmal costumer service, and I’m not giving my address and phone number to some Chinese data center if I can help it.

        • humble peat digger
          link
          fedilink
          English
          22 months ago

          Your local oligarch will do more damage to you than remote Chinese person can ever do

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                12 months ago

                I use amazon to buy ebooks, and order stuff to my parents or friends back home if they are coming over, when there’s something I can’t get locally.

                Taobao is the same garbage as Aliexpress, Temu would be Pinduoduo (which is so riddled with poor knockoffs that locals avoid it and crack jokes about the stupid foreigners thinking it’s hot shit).

                The only somewhat trusted platform is JD.com (jindong) or official brand shops on Taobao. Tmall belongs to Taobao, that’s just their own shop (as opposed to third party sellers), but there’s no guarantee you actually buy authentic products either.