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Shopping has always been a tiny rush of happiness in many peoples' lives. I think free shipping only makes this rush more convenient, accessible, and addicting.

hemiceha 8y ago
I guess that's why so many people have Amazon Prime. And also, why they offer multiple 30 day trials to every user...
- grenoire 8y ago
  "First one's on the house," said to me once an Amsterdam back-alley coke dealer.
  - thraway-burnout 8y ago
    I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions
    - magduf 8y ago
      Wow, the username here really checks out, especially with the misspelling.
      - thraway-burnout 8y ago
        "throwaway-burnout" was taken IIRC
    - monkeynotes 8y ago
      Maybe if you lived in poverty in a housing project where many dealers are competing with each other and moving heroin, crack, meth, and fentanyl to desperate people who want to escape.
      - thraway-burnout 8y ago
        I guess I did grow up in relative poverty, though not in a housing project. The area I grew up in, at the time, had lots of Crack but no Meth/Heroin etc. Still, never heard of it. I'm quite sure it's an urban myth :-)
    - moate 8y ago
      It's less "here's a bag of free drugs, wander off and enjoy" and more frequently "yo, wanna do some blow with me?" I'm sure you've encountered SOMETHING like this.
- Angostura 8y ago
  I take the 30 day trial out each year around November 25 - just for 30 days. Handy.
patatino 8y ago
For me, it's all about convenience. I absolute hate cloth shopping. Now I can order a bunch of stuff, even the same thing in different sizes, try them at home and ship everything I don't want back. And also with electronics, why should I go to the store if I receive the package the next day?
- magduf 8y ago
  There's another convenience factor here: being in-stock. With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. So you drive there (wasting gas and a lot of time), wander around inside looking for it, only to find it's not even there! Then you have to go drive somewhere else hoping they have it, or get someone there to look it up and see what other store does have it, etc. All in all, this can waste a huge amount of time and fuel just to go find one single item. With online shopping, it's right there on the website: you can see everything the shop has to offer in one place, and you can see if it's in stock or not. If it is, you click "buy" and it shows up at your doorstep. If it isn't, or there's some problem, that might mean a delay in getting your item, but you're not going to waste a lot of time and energy running around in the process.
  - sampo 8y ago
    > With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. Many stores, especially the chains, have webpages that tell if an item is available in a store or not.
    - bluesroo 8y ago
      And many stores' customer-facing inventory systems are not reliable, or only updated every 24 hours. If there is only 1-2 of an item in stock, there's a decent chance it's actually sold out.
    - TomMarius 8y ago
      And then I order from said website. Why would I go to the store when I'm already on the web?
GuiA 8y ago
Traditional shopping just gives you one tiny rush - when you buy the item. But with online shopping, you get the rush when you buy the item, and when it appears on your doorstep a couple days later!
- tapland 8y ago
  And F5ing shipment updates. It's like christmas.
  - Scoundreller 8y ago
    It’s a lot more fun than The “Call/Schedule a taxi and pray” lottery.

hemiceha 8y ago

I guess that's why so many people have Amazon Prime. And also, why they offer multiple 30 day trials to every user...

grenoire 8y ago
"First one's on the house," said to me once an Amsterdam back-alley coke dealer.
- thraway-burnout 8y ago
  I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions
  - magduf 8y ago
    Wow, the username here really checks out, especially with the misspelling.
    - thraway-burnout 8y ago
      "throwaway-burnout" was taken IIRC
  - monkeynotes 8y ago
    Maybe if you lived in poverty in a housing project where many dealers are competing with each other and moving heroin, crack, meth, and fentanyl to desperate people who want to escape.
    - thraway-burnout 8y ago
      I guess I did grow up in relative poverty, though not in a housing project. The area I grew up in, at the time, had lots of Crack but no Meth/Heroin etc. Still, never heard of it. I'm quite sure it's an urban myth :-)
  - moate 8y ago
    It's less "here's a bag of free drugs, wander off and enjoy" and more frequently "yo, wanna do some blow with me?" I'm sure you've encountered SOMETHING like this.
Angostura 8y ago
I take the 30 day trial out each year around November 25 - just for 30 days. Handy.

patatino 8y ago

For me, it's all about convenience. I absolute hate cloth shopping. Now I can order a bunch of stuff, even the same thing in different sizes, try them at home and ship everything I don't want back. And also with electronics, why should I go to the store if I receive the package the next day?

magduf 8y ago
There's another convenience factor here: being in-stock. With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. So you drive there (wasting gas and a lot of time), wander around inside looking for it, only to find it's not even there! Then you have to go drive somewhere else hoping they have it, or get someone there to look it up and see what other store does have it, etc. All in all, this can waste a huge amount of time and fuel just to go find one single item. With online shopping, it's right there on the website: you can see everything the shop has to offer in one place, and you can see if it's in stock or not. If it is, you click "buy" and it shows up at your doorstep. If it isn't, or there's some problem, that might mean a delay in getting your item, but you're not going to waste a lot of time and energy running around in the process.
- sampo 8y ago
  > With B&M shopping, even if you know exactly what you want, you have no idea if it's actually in-stock at your local $store. Many stores, especially the chains, have webpages that tell if an item is available in a store or not.
  - bluesroo 8y ago
    And many stores' customer-facing inventory systems are not reliable, or only updated every 24 hours. If there is only 1-2 of an item in stock, there's a decent chance it's actually sold out.
  - TomMarius 8y ago
    And then I order from said website. Why would I go to the store when I'm already on the web?

GuiA 8y ago

Traditional shopping just gives you one tiny rush - when you buy the item. But with online shopping, you get the rush when you buy the item, and when it appears on your doorstep a couple days later!

tapland 8y ago
And F5ing shipment updates. It's like christmas.
- Scoundreller 8y ago
  It’s a lot more fun than The “Call/Schedule a taxi and pray” lottery.