{"id":1381,"date":"2010-12-06T11:55:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/amazon-loses-on-shipping\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T17:55:52","slug":"amazon-loses-on-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/amazon-loses-on-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon loses on shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1556711174\/ref=oss_product\">a book<\/a> on Amazon the other day that cost $24.95.&#160; That price put it just $0.05 away from qualifying for free shipping.&#160; Rather than cough up the $7 in shipping costs, I searched around for something cheap that would put me over the threshold and since I know I have some electrical work to do on my car, I picked up some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0013HSR9A\/ref=oss_product\">wire shrink wrap<\/a> for $.18.&#160; It worked out and I saved some money on shipping.<\/p>\n<p>Then things got weird (and expensive for Amazon).<\/p>\n<p>A day or two after placing the order, I got an email from Amazon saying they had divided my order into two shipments.&#160; The irony made me laugh: I had only ordered the cheap tubing to save on shipping for the book, and now they were doubling their costs to get me my tubing that costs less than a quarter.<\/p>\n<p>When the tubing package came in, I realized just how much Amazon lost on the deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Paintingandpigclip002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Painting and pig clip 002\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Painting and pig clip 002\" src=\"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Paintingandpigclip002_thumb.jpg\" width=\"304\" height=\"404\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Instead of shipping it in a 3&quot;x4&quot; bubble envelope like I expected, this tiny bit of tubing (flexible, and about the thickness of a pencil) came in a 4&#8242; plastic tube that was then in a super reinforced cardboard mailer.&#160; The shipping label didn&#8217;t have a price on it, but it did list the weight at 6 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Amazon lose money on shipping the original book, but they had to have thrown at least $10 down the drain to ship me my 20-cent tubing (which, as it turns out, is too narrow and I won&#8217;t even use it).<\/p>\n<p>I am not complaining, but the inefficiency certainly made me chuckle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ordered a book on Amazon the other day that cost $24.95.&#160; That price put it just $0.05 away from qualifying for free shipping.&#160; Rather than cough up the $7 in shipping costs, I searched around for something cheap that would put me over the threshold and since I know I have some electrical work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[553,541,637],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-amazon","tag-books","tag-shipping"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}