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I use a comparator plugin and I never have this experience. I spend probably at least $1000 a month on Amazon between personal and business and the difference i

I use a comparator plugin and I never have this experience. I spend probably at least $1000 a month on Amazon between personal and business and the difference in savings is negligible at best from switching to various other sites from Amazon (most of the time Amazon is the cheapest price). Prime shipping has been annoying to my residence because I live in Seattle and they use contractors which often just fuck things up for same-day delivery, but it's never longer than 2 days. Almost no other site can match that speed and convenience, which is the real reason any of use Prime. If I saw the same 30% overcharging phenomenon people keep talking about on HN, I'd probably consider switching. But it is well under 5% and probably ~0%, honestly, and the value of my time and efficiency of shopping online is worth quite a bit to me.

dleslie 8y ago
Which plugin?
- icelancer 8y ago
  There's tons; Wikibuy, Honey, etc, etc. I use Honey but I've used a bunch and the results are generally the same. The paranoia inflicted upon me by HN crowd saying I'm overpaying on Amazon by 30% makes me investigate all these claims and I just find them all to be completely false in my case. I'm not saying people don't have these experiences, but I don't. And even if I did for like 5% or something, the shopping experience on Amazon is 10x better than Walmart.com or Target.com (where it's more like 100x), and that isn't worth nothing. It's like patio11 insisting that basis points fees aren't worth arguing over on Stripe when you are infinitely more productive using Stripe's developer kit vs. Authorize.net or any other terrible gateway, and people everywhere on HN claim how expensive Stripe is and how you can save money and don't factor in even a very conservative estimate on labor hours for a C-level exec or a manager in a company. It doesn't take much time saved or annoyances avoided for a high-level executive to make a small price difference be completely irrelevant. And that's what Amazon has mostly done.
  - thisacctforreal 8y ago
    Is it possible GP meant 30% more for a prime-compatible listing compared to a non-prime listing?
- siruncledrew 8y ago
  CamelCamelCamel is also useful at showing product price history and has an extension as well: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-camelizer/ghnomdcacenbmilgjigehppbamfndblo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-camelizer/ghno...

dleslie 8y ago

Which plugin?

icelancer 8y ago
There's tons; Wikibuy, Honey, etc, etc. I use Honey but I've used a bunch and the results are generally the same. The paranoia inflicted upon me by HN crowd saying I'm overpaying on Amazon by 30% makes me investigate all these claims and I just find them all to be completely false in my case. I'm not saying people don't have these experiences, but I don't. And even if I did for like 5% or something, the shopping experience on Amazon is 10x better than Walmart.com or Target.com (where it's more like 100x), and that isn't worth nothing. It's like patio11 insisting that basis points fees aren't worth arguing over on Stripe when you are infinitely more productive using Stripe's developer kit vs. Authorize.net or any other terrible gateway, and people everywhere on HN claim how expensive Stripe is and how you can save money and don't factor in even a very conservative estimate on labor hours for a C-level exec or a manager in a company. It doesn't take much time saved or annoyances avoided for a high-level executive to make a small price difference be completely irrelevant. And that's what Amazon has mostly done.
- thisacctforreal 8y ago
  Is it possible GP meant 30% more for a prime-compatible listing compared to a non-prime listing?
siruncledrew 8y ago
CamelCamelCamel is also useful at showing product price history and has an extension as well: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-camelizer/ghnomdcacenbmilgjigehppbamfndblo https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-camelizer/ghno...