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Amazon subscribe and save is the same thing. I use it for toiletries and other routine consumables at home. Amazon trucks are going to be on the road anyway; m
by yesUgotit 4y ago
Amazon subscribe and save is the same thing.
I use it for toiletries and other routine consumables at home. Amazon trucks are going to be on the road anyway; may as well save my car trips for actually interesting trips.
- notimetorelax 4y agoYup, at first it seems wasteful to order delivery, but if you go shopping yourself you still end up driving.
- tertius 4y agoI drive car wagon with a large spacious rear area. I limit my shopping trips, I buy in bulk. You have to be very disciplined to get as efficient with Amazon. It's probably not really possible.
- noisycarlos 4y agoAmazon day is probably similar. There's a designated day of the week where they deliver everything I've ordered that week. I don't have hard data, but it makes sense that if more than one person in my building/block/etc does the same (thus sharing the same delivery vehicle), it's probably less driving/gas overall.
- brewdad 4y agoI have 6 neighbors in my cul-de-sac. The Amazon truck probably visits 5 out of 7 days a week. I never worried about whether my Amazon purchases were wasteful based on trucks and fuel. They were quite wasteful in the sense that I bought a lot of cheap crap I didn't actually need.
- patates 4y agoThis is the worst thing about it. Holding something and deciding if it's worth your money is a much longer process than clicking "buy now", and you've probably don't even remember doing it when the goods show up in front of your door.
- tertius 4y agoJust shop with a list and don't break the rule of not buying anything not on the list.
- thaeli 4y agoI don't trust Subscribe & Save because of Amazon's dynamic pricing. The discount doesn't matter if the base piece tripled because of Amazon pricing shenanigans.
- dymk 4y agoHas this ever actually happened?
- brewdad 4y agoWhat? Amazon changing prices? It happens every single day. I had something like 25 items in my Saved for Later and every time I logged in at least one and usually 3 or 4 of them had changed price.
- dymk 4y agoNo, I'm asking about the situation you described: Do you know of a situation where somebody started a subscription and had the base price triple. I'm not talking about the price of a box of tide pods going up by $1, I mean the situation you're describing where somebody effectively gets bait-and-switched with a 3x price increase.
- joegahona 4y agoI don't trust Subscribe & Save because of how they've tried to dupe me into it for products that clearly aren't subscription-worthy, and how it's pre-selected on items. I can't recall what I was purchasing one time that had "subscribe & save" preselected, but it was something absurd like a dog bed or a nose-hair clipper.
- mcintyre1994 4y agoOn the flip side when they do that, can't you just take the discount and then cancel the subscription? I think I've done that before.
- delecti 4y ago