Yes, I’d like to pay nearly $200 for shipping of a $30 thing. Or free shipping that will arrive on the 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.
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)
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.
They’re fuckken sending an ambulance
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.
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
UPS: “Guaranteed we’ll try our best to respect the delivery date! We’ll give it our most effort! If there’s any package we will make sure is the first in line is yours!”
When it gets delivered later than promised: “We tried and it didn’t work out.”
Overnight shipping is expensive
And useless where I live. Next Day Air is a mere week away.
exactly what it feels like when airlines list “board first” as a perk for paying twice as much
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.
Mildly amusing. I ship UPS all the time at work, and always check all the options for the best balance of speed and cost. The number of times the cheapest option is estimated to arrive before a more expensive choice cracks me up. Not always, but way more than I’d expect.
The difference is Air has a guarantee, Ground does not.
Can only assume the cheaper option is the higher volume option that will have better leverage from economies of scale. Lower price is usually where that surfaces but I can easily see it surfacing as more flights and faster delivery if the route is just right.
The 2 day air is only $15 more, I think you should go for it
There’s a shop I occasionally order from and it has three options.
- within three hours, free
- standard shipping, 3-7 days, $15
- express post, next day, $26
No idea why same day is free when they’re basically sending it in an uber vs the post. It’s handy though
It’s obvious, you’re paying for the FREEDOM to pay more! /s
I’m not in America so I don’t have any freedom 😞
That reflects the luck you have compaired to some others.
I won’t comment if your luck is greater or less than theirs ;-).
Remove the first free line, and it is the story of Canadians trying to buy something from the US… plus $300 fee you receive 3 weeks later.
If you need it by Oct 28, you really only have one option. (In that you must choose between three options.)
Really bothered that 3d and 2d arrive on the same damn day!
