Update: This very popular deal is still available.
Amazon is offering Select Amazon Accounts/Customers w/ Discover Rewards: $10 Off Your $75+ Eligible Amazon Purchase when paying w/ Discover Rewards at checkout when you click the offer and activate it under your account. Shipping is free for applicable orders.
Thanks to Deal Hunter niki4h for posting this deal.
Note: Offer may vary by account/customer, not all accounts eligible
Amazon[amazon.com] is offering Select Amazon Accounts/Customers w/ Discover Rewards: $10 Off your $75+ Eligible Amazon Purchase when paying w/ Discover Rewards[amazon.com] at checkout when you click the offer and activate it under your account. Shipping is free for applicable orders.
Note: Offer may vary by account/customer, not all accounts eligible
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I got this offer, and I've added 25 items (belts, hoses, filters, seals, plugs, wires) to a Rockauto shopping cart for a subtotal of $249.09, before 5% discount and $33.96 shipping from four different locations. The "sold by Amazon" tax on each item is so high that I can't put together a ($75 - $10 = $65 with free shipping) order that's cheaper than Rockauto's undiscounted shipped price.
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.
This is confusing. Are you saying you comparison shopped rockauto vs amazon, if so what was the result?
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.
This is confusing. Are you saying you comparison shopped rockauto vs amazon, if so what was the result?
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.
Edit: To answer your first question - I comparison shopped rockauto vs amazon for different $75+ subsets of a $250 order, trying to find some combination of items where the free shipping and $10 discount saved me money. I did not. I agreed with the other posters who have found that, as a general rule, you pay extra for "Sold by Amazon".
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).
I got this offer, and I've added 25 items (belts, hoses, filters, seals, plugs, wires) to a Rockauto shopping cart for a subtotal of $249.09, before 5% discount and $33.96 shipping from four different locations. The "sold by Amazon" tax on each item is so high that I can't put together a ($75 - $10 = $65 with free shipping) order that's cheaper than Rockauto's undiscounted shipped price.
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.
It's very YMMV if the $10 discount for sold by Amazon.com will beat an order from another store or with a similarly quality item.
Food stuffs/dog food, sold by Amazon is easy to get a good deal when you can stack their coupons. $10 off $75 is $75 original price. If you get a $75 order with 40% S&S discount, it'll be 40% off $75 and then $10 off that already reduced price. It also can't be on item where they are already running a pet promo since they usually jack up the prices. I just fulfilled my $10 off $75 discover with mostly dog treats. $76 subtotal down to $49 after coupons. Still have to check other sites to make sure the price isn't inflated. Previously when I couldn't hit the minimum spend, I'd add my guilty pleasure of one of the cheapest per lb sour belts that'd be a good deal if I found it in a supermarket.
When shopping for products that have a good fake cheap Chinese offbrand, it'll be more expensive with Amazon. When shopping for some more "luxury" or specialty items, they probably aren't sold by Amazon.com.
On car parts, Amazon has good enough prices for good parts/brands for basic maintenance (my limit) like air filters, wipers, oil, etc. like Bosch, Fram, Pennzoil but I'm not super knowledgeable nor do I keep up with deals. But it's just you have to know what subset of Amazon you want to shop for to get a good probability of being able to pull out ahead with a discount.
It was definitely hard spinning a $10 off $75 this time. Not sure if I would find anything if I didn't use it on dog food. All the items I have saved to my Amazon wishlist are either not discounted, not sold by Amazon.com, or just minimal discount.
i click the activate button and get "undefined" error message. Any one else??
Try going into your account in the top right corner, then click memberships and subscriptions (or prime membership) and sign in through that secure area... then exit out and try the link here again, it should then work and activate
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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.
Guessing this means it doesn't work on Amazon GCs?
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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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.
It's very YMMV if the $10 discount for sold by Amazon.com will beat an order from another store or with a similarly quality item.
Food stuffs/dog food, sold by Amazon is easy to get a good deal when you can stack their coupons. $10 off $75 is $75 original price. If you get a $75 order with 40% S&S discount, it'll be 40% off $75 and then $10 off that already reduced price. It also can't be on item where they are already running a pet promo since they usually jack up the prices. I just fulfilled my $10 off $75 discover with mostly dog treats. $76 subtotal down to $49 after coupons. Still have to check other sites to make sure the price isn't inflated. Previously when I couldn't hit the minimum spend, I'd add my guilty pleasure of one of the cheapest per lb sour belts that'd be a good deal if I found it in a supermarket.
When shopping for products that have a good fake cheap Chinese offbrand, it'll be more expensive with Amazon. When shopping for some more "luxury" or specialty items, they probably aren't sold by Amazon.com.
On car parts, Amazon has good enough prices for good parts/brands for basic maintenance (my limit) like air filters, wipers, oil, etc. like Bosch, Fram, Pennzoil but I'm not super knowledgeable nor do I keep up with deals. But it's just you have to know what subset of Amazon you want to shop for to get a good probability of being able to pull out ahead with a discount.
It was definitely hard spinning a $10 off $75 this time. Not sure if I would find anything if I didn't use it on dog food. All the items I have saved to my Amazon wishlist are either not discounted, not sold by Amazon.com, or just minimal discount.