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Originally Posted by MikeCL
The add-on program is the biggest waste of shipping and cardboard.. I only used it twice and now I try to avoid it.. a slap in the face for prime users.. this is my 2nd year with prime and in those two years I've seen a lot of changes.. most of them came in the forum of WTH and WTF at the checkout.
Anyways the add-on pieces.. they were both small.. a exhaust gasket for a car way under 1 LB.. more like 0.22 LB and a wire harness for a temp sensor which was like $6 and also way under a pound.. they shipped the tiny exhaust gasket in a large UPS express box and the wire harness in a 3x too big box.. I was way more disgusted of the waste of the boxes more then the price.
Now i just avoid the add-on or I just buy it from a non Amazon shipper.
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So they'll only ship add-on items when attached to a min $25 order, but still ship it separately? I should have already guessed that. Even with prime, I used to try to combine orders when I could, but discovered that it didn't do any good, amazon would still ship half my orders separately. I assumed with their bulk shipping contracts they figured it was more affordable to ship separately rather than pay someone to package things together. Until the add-on program that is. Before it, they had lots of stuff across their site for only a buck or two that shipped like everything else with prime. Then they not only created the add-on program making it less convenient to buy small items from them when you needed, but shortly after they started over-inflating the prices of many of those items, as if they didn't even want us to buy them from them anymore, or expected most of their customers to be dumb enough to pay twice the price of what you can get it for locally - still haven't figured out which. But I thought amazon seemed to make more of an effort to ship stuff together these days: they've even seemed to delay shipment for a few of my items, presumably to send it with another order I had due.