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expired Posted by niki4h | Staff • Apr 20, 2024
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It's only $10 off if items you already want qualify.
I don't plan to price out the gobbledygook name brands, I didn't get the 6% offer from Discover, and our big 15% S&S order already got delivered. Sometimes it's best to not play.
I don't plan to price out the gobbledygook name brands, I didn't get the 6% offer from Discover, and our big 15% S&S order already got delivered. Sometimes it's best to not play.
I have done this a few times and I have noticed that now rockauto plays a game with shipping warehouses. After a certain amount of items, it will no matter what force you to get something from another warehouse in order to collect an additional shipping fee. Amazon has on a few occasions beaten rockauto for my car parts.
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I have done this a few times and I have noticed that now rockauto plays a game with shipping warehouses. After a certain amount of items, it will no matter what force you to get something from another warehouse in order to collect an additional shipping fee. Amazon has on a few occasions beaten rockauto for my car parts.
Amazon has certainly beaten them in the past, especially on a small cart of higher priced items, but they didn't for me today. As a matter of fact, I am ordering PCV valves and cabin air filters from Amazon, but they aren't "sold by Amazon" - it's way more than a $10 difference and the total is well under $75.
The shipping-from-different-warehouses is a combinatorics problem. As you are dynamically adding items one at a time, your package coming from one warehouse goes from being a bubble mailer to a smaller flat rate box to a larger flat rate box to a weighted box. The items already in your cart can jump from one warehouse to another because it might be cheaper to send a new package from a new location instead of increasing the size of a package ... for that one marginal item. When you add the next item, all of that may change.
In March 2021, I placed a $967 order (27 items that included 4 struts). I fiddled with it for a few days, trying to game the shipping. When you remove items from your cart, things aren't fully recalculated. I thought I could use that to my advantage to force the shipping I thought would be cheapest (less warehouses) ... but at checkout, not only was everything fully recalculated, but the shipping price was cheaper that way (more warehouses, smaller packages.)
So when you say "it will no matter what force you to get something from another warehouse in order to collect an additional shipping fee", I feel like you are implying that they somehow profit off of shipping fees. I can't imagine that's the case. It costs me double and triple their shipping rates to ship packages myself. Shipping is expensive, Amazon just covers it up (and also runs their own delivery service).
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