Anyone use the site? I love it. It pretty much has the best deals on everything, and the quick pick deals are always great. You always get a few ridiculously good deals on one or two things a week. (The quick picks are either stuff on your wishlist, or recommendations based on your order history, wishlist, viewing, etc.). But the one thing that I find hysterical is their shipping, and this is really more to do with UPS then Amazon. I have Amazon Prime, so that's 2 day shipping for free (well free...besides that Amazon Prime members fee). They take great heights to get those packages out in 2 days. The warehouse, where almost all of my Amazon stuff ships is in Indiana. Usually it just goes up to Indianapolis, to Illinois, then to Wisconsin. Now the 2 day shipping is based on business days. So I made an order today, it ships. Now because of the weekend, it would get here on Monday...and be 1 day shipping. However...it will be 2 day shipping...because UPS thinks it is a smart idea to ship it down to Lousville from Indiana, before going to Wisconsin. May I ask...what is the harmof giving someone 1 day shipping even though it is ordered through 2 day shipping, when the warehouse the items are shipping from is so close that the items only take about 8-12 hours to get from the warehouse to the destination city?
this was answered earlier, they ship to the regional distribution center...makes it cheaper in the long run.
I ordered a pair of shoes from amazon recently. Pretty sure it was standard shipping. Fedex shipped it from SLC to somewhere in Wyoming, back to SLC and then up to Portland. Took an extra couple of days for that little side trip.
They're both at the same shipping facility about 20 minutes from my house right now. If they both don't get delivered on Monday, then UPS is crazy.
Amazon is awesome. I get all my college textbooks from there as they are usually way less then the bookstore at school. My friends and I actually have a little scam goign on at the end of the year, when you can sell books back to the bookstore. Basically you find out what books the school needs, and then you go and buy them on amazon. Then you sell them back to school for much more then what you bought it for. In some cases we were buying books for 5 dollars online, and selling them back for 40 dollars. The end of the year is the best time of year.
I've recently been using it a lot to find more books I'm interested in. By far the easiest way to find books, imo. Like I enjoy Alternate History books, I just type in Alternate History, then I can click on the type of book (thriller, fiction, sci-fi, etc...) and it has a huge list and a description, author notes, similar books, and reviews. Its amazing. Love that site.
I can often pick up new versions of old albums for under a dollar (sometimes literally as low as one cent) from the "New & Used" part of Amazon. Amazon generally rocks. The free shipping for orders of $15 or more has made online shopping a few million times more attractive than going out to stores.
really... do the bookstores usually produce a list of what they are buying and at what price? How do you do this part? ...not that I am thinking of doing this or anything
At my school 2 weeks before class ends they start buying back books. At that time you can go online to the bookstores website and click on your book to see how much they are buying it back for. Usually the big ones are books like accounting, economics, things like that. But there is a chance it will drop down after awhile. My friend Ben bought two economics books for $5 online. Then he and his gf went and sold them for $40 to the book store (you can only sell one book per student ID card). So then he went online and bout 8 more of the same book ranging from $5-15. When he tried to sell them back, they were no longer accepting that book. So he plans on just waiting till next year to resale them before all of the kids who actually took the class can get out of the class to sell them. Sucks for them yea, but really if you plan ahead well and have a few people in on it, you can make a few hundred bucks.
for textbooks, try http://www.addall.com/ basically, it searches all the online sites for the best price, which, to be fair, is usually amazon.com. still, sometimes you can save $10 or so getting your book off of abebooks or others... I refuse to use the university bookstore, what a massive rip off.
