Don’t give them ideas.
Amazon's new "Delivery Plus" service. For an additional $29.95 your stuff will arrive less fucked up. Free with Amazon Prime.
Submitted 2 months ago by Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 months ago
Even if this was real, your package isn’t arriving any less fucked up than before because that extra $30 isn’t going straight to the minimum wage employees that pack it and deliver it.
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It still has a 50% chance of being the wrong thing though.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just wait until I tell you about the Delivery Premium Upgrade!
errer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I thought this was real until I read the community name
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How much you guys pay for.prime?! I pay like US$ 2
sxan@midwest.social 2 months ago
Um. I can’t tell if you’re joking. It’s up to $139 annually, or $15/m.
MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wow really? that’s expensive. I pay ±24 dolars a year. We don’t have same day delivery but all deliveries arrive next day. Prime is shit but the free fast delivery is great and it’s so cheap I just keep it
underline960@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It sounds like a protection racket.
“Sure would be a shame if your package arrived in… less than ideal condition.”
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Prime is already a protection racket. Sure, we could deliver your package on time but we won’t unless you pay us extra to not artificially slow it down.
It’s amazing how so many people still haven’t realized this and dutifully pay for Prime because, “It’s just so convenient!”
Baaahb@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Honestly I’m 50/50 on getting my prime shit on time.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The alternative is ordering shit from another website and then wondering if it’ll ever even show up at all
MangoCats@feddit.it 2 months ago
They give me “Prime free for 30 days” every so often. The only difference I notice is that I can send in an order for one little cheap thing and get free shipping, instead of waiting until I have $35 worth of stuff to send the order.
The “faster shipping” with Prime isn’t faster most of the time - frequently promises fast and actually delivers slow, which is worse IMO than promising slow and usually delivering faster.
They run bogus discounts for “Prime members only” that just steer me away from the products altogether - add up all the “Prime discounts” I might have bought in my lifetime and it’s less than two months Prime subscription cost.
If I need something “right away” - that’s what local brick and mortar stores are for. Prime is a sucky attempt at competing with a 5 minute drive to the hardware store.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I hate how free two day “super saver shipping” went from $25 worth of stuff to $35 to “maybe a week? Lol we’ll deliver it whenever we want”.
I have spent maybe $2k total there now in the last year? Mostly things I can’t buy locally or elsewhere.