Yes, I’d like to pay nearly $200 for shipping of a $30 thing. Or free shipping that will arrive on the same day.
I like to imagine the buyer lives next door to the warehouse, so no matter how they send it - on the back on a tortoise, or fired out of a railgun - it’ll arrive same day.
Does “Promise” mean that it’s guaranteed to arrive on that day, or is it just a dumb name for a shipping company?
Its not that the merchant is offering these prices to you. They’re using another service to get shipping quotes on demand and display them to you transparently. Why they’re so high, I can not explain, but it may have to do with global fuel supply and an all time high demand for shipping services.
Fucking hate all of this. With payments online getting easier I’m finding it more convenient to order from small websites again and stop using Amazon. But when it comes to shipping, things are really not getting any faster or easier. While Amazon is always a day behind their promises, they are usually much faster than anyone else.
They quit putting packages on planes. They even have Hawaii going by boat now. I see retail rates over $20 to ship ground within the usa. They are claiming shipping will start to take two weeks soon. Yes, be prepared for this. This fucking president and the assholes that voted for them need to be held accountable for this.
Everything about this country is down the shitter and in the pipes. It’s insane how calculated the installation of apathy into Americans was/is though. Built up over decades through the actions of dark money and wackos. It permeates even the oldest generations.
It might be time to accept again that an order can take a few days to arrive.
Yeah a few days is nothing. But two weeks is disturbingly common. And lack of any predictability is rampant.
Logistics are incredibly difficult. The reason Amazon is faster is the same reason they’re bigger, vertical integration. Owning the whole shipping process has huge benefits when shipping speed matter s
Yeah. A naive response would be “isn’t UPS big too?” But the shipping is only part of retail logistics. When you also control the warehousing distribution, and can back-feed logistical availability data all the way to the retail interface to affect what people buy in the first place… you have power that no fleet of trucks alone can overcome.
Can agree with this more they also have warehouses near or in major cities to help cut down travel time where small businesses might ship themselves or use a 3PL with one or two fulfilment points.
Rates are so variable too especially when weights exceed a threshold (usually a pound)
eBay’s shipping options often look like this for US to Canada items. A book will be $60 shipping but a larger heavier item is $25.
Let’s enjoy the last few days of free delivery.
Silly yes, but I’ve had to do this at my job before to get the “guaranteed” delivery by X date. Does it work? Sometimes
They’re fuckken sending an ambulance
It was probably vibe coded.
Overnight shipping is expensive
And useless where I live. Next Day Air is a mere week away.
None of those dates have the year on them.
In the year 2026, October 28th is a Wednesday.
So is in 2037.
Really bothered that 3d and 2d arrive on the same damn day!
Ops house must be orbiting a very massive body to be caught in such time dilation. Maybe their in-laws are visiting?
I think that this is just a shipping cost function that Shopify provides to shops. I don’t think that the seller added these options. Its just showing different options that they have access to in their system. No human has looked at these options and decided that they make sense. The store probably doesn’t even know.
I hate how shopify has taken over internet commerce. I refuse to buy from anywhere that uses it, but it is becoming increasingly difficult.
…… oh fucking kay…….
Do you…do you shop only with the Amish or???
Like don’t tell me you shop at a major corp or own a car or that you have a phone while boycotting small business lol what the hell.
Shopify is shit but like, holy fuck literally angels next to bezos.
I don’t buy from big corps. The majority of my purchases are done in person in local shops. I have a Fairphone which while not perfect, is much better than the average phone, with a degoogked version of android. While I do have an electric car, I bought it used and still use public transport when I can. I am vegan.
Forgive me for trying to avoid a shit company that is less shit than others.
I understand that I am privileged to be able to make the choices I have. Not everybody is able to do so. But fucking hell, why put people down for trying to make better choices where they can.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of small businesses out there that rely on Shopify, it stinks but I have been forced to use them a few times.
Yeah, same. Especially for more niche things. But I alwaysvlook for alternatives still.
You’re gonna flip when you hear about it’s cousin Amazon
That one is much easier to ignore, at least where I live.
Isn’t this rather c/softwaregore?
If you live in a major metropolitan center, anything shipped from relatively close will get to you next day, so changing the service level doesn’t matter.
Higher tier service is only useful when shipping longer distances or to areas that aren’t shipped to frequently enough to have a nearby hub.
In this case the seller probably offers free basic shipping regardless, and charges for other options, regardless of the buyer’s need.
Not necessarily. It very well could just be “we only offer one shipping method, but if you pay us enough we will send a guy down to the post office with only your package today.”
Since this is in the mildly infuriating community, you view this as infuriating, but I think this is preying on the psychology of the average person who doesn’t think about things as much.
They just breeze by this and don’t look closely, but they get the vague impression that the store is saving them a bunch of money, so they’ll be more likely to continue shopping there.
Kinda in the same vein as charging full price and showing the discount separately on the invoice or receipt. People need to see that the seller saved them money or they made a wise choice to save themselves money.
There’s also something called the decoy effect, talked about a bit in this entertaining TED Talk.
