Amazon madness

Started by Nick, October 22, 2018, 08:09:37 PM

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Nick

In the same vein as the "EBay madness" thread, I just came across this listing by a certain South American river. 1/3 oz of Plastizap for £11-65.

Price on modelfixings? £3-75.

For the avoidance of doubt, I have no connection with Modelfixings except as a satisfied customer.. And to be fair, elsewhere in the River, somebody is selling it for £2-98, and someone for £14-22. But Amazon's own offering is over three times the going rate! Jeepers.

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Crazy prices for sure and definitely shows why Jeff Bezos (Amazon Founder) is the No.1 wealthiest man on the planet with a worth estimated as £100 Billion as of 2018!! :o

It also shows as you have done that it pays to shop around to find the best price for the same item.
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middlefour

Simple answer, don't use Amazon. I wouldn't ever use them, talk to somebody who works in one of their warehouses. I have never believed the myth that they are always cheapest. Like a lot of modellers my nearest model shops are all some distant away, but I do try and use them as much as possible. Buying some stuff on line now is almost unavoidable sadly.
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Quote from: middlefour on October 23, 2018, 10:26:32 AM
Simple answer, don't use Amazon. I wouldn't ever use them, talk to somebody who works in one of their warehouses. I have never believed the myth that they are always cheapest. Like a lot of modellers my nearest model shops are all some distant away, but I do try and use them as much as possible. Buying some stuff on line now is almost unavoidable sadly.

Hi

However in some instances they are the cheapest. I bought some lathe tooling from them for my Proxxon PD250E. It was around £15 cheaper from Amazon than my normal tooling suppliers and this was branded product.

You just have to keep an eye on things. My son wanted the new Lego X Wing and a couple of weeks ago it was on offer at Amazon for £54 instead of £90 elsewhere.

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I don't think there's a myth that they're always cheapest, I don't think anyone's sufficiently naive to believe that one retailer will always be the cheapest. I've certainly never heard that.

I use them primarily because of prime. I know I can order things and they'll be there next day with no delivery charge. I'll pay a small premium for that for sure. The item in the OP is weird, can't explain that.

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