I'm irrational over free shipping

In My Humble Opinion
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I’m shopping online and have a cart full of merchandise, ready to pull the trigger. :cool:

but first, I google for promo codes and I find a bunch - whoopee! I pick a complicated one: a certain percentage off depending on how much you spend, plus free shipping and I have in mind the total and then…the free shipping doesn’t work.

after wasting a bunch of time trying other codes I call the company to be told that the site where I am looking up promo codes doesn’t update them - that the original offer might have included free shipping but it now longer does. no, they won’t give me free shipping when I ask very nicely.

now I have figured out the best deal is to go with a 20% off coupon, but this includes $9.99 shipping and I don’t want to pay for shipping, even though it’s a lower total. in my mind, I was promised free shipping and I can’t get over it.

now I’m back in my cart, trying to rearrange things to get the total below what I originally thought I was going to pay even though it will mean less stuff. but I will get free shipping!
:mad:

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If it’s any consolation, it’s not just you. I go through the exact same thing whenever shopping online, which is pretty frequent.

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It’s some sort of human weakness, I have the same thing. I would sooner one-click order a free-shipping cable for $6 from Amazon than pay $2 + $2 shipping from somewhere else.

4

So uneconomic thinking is a human weakness?

5

I’m confident that we are the only species troubled by it.

6

Well, it’s not quite that for me. I just wouldn’t buy it at all until I could find some way to take advantage of a free shipping option. I abandon a lot of carts across the internet :stuck_out_tongue:

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it’s like having the call to order an over priced item on tv. you always feel good about the free part.

8

me, too.

the internet is going to fill up with my abandoned carts…and blogs people started and message boards that everyone drifted away from…

how soon til there is no place for LOL cat pix? :dubious:

I should have been posted this in mundane pointless stuff, on second thoughts…I mean, could I get any more mundane or pointless? :rolleyes:

don’t get all arrogant, now. I might have to bust out the CAPITAL LETTERS.

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My husband routinely orders from an overseas company that gives free shipping if your order is over ??? amount. So after placing his order he just fills the difference with any kind of junk they have on sale, just to get the damned free shipping.

Last month it was 6’ ipad cords, which sounds terribly helpful, but since they are cheap Asian knock offs break after about 3 uses. I just chuck them in the trash and go fetch another off his desk. I finally told him to stop ordering them as they are beyond useless! Now it’s micro jump drives!

I wish I could get this company to stop with the free shipping deal already! You’re burying me here!

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Let’s do this old-school:

NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR DAMAGE DUE TO ABANDONED CARTS

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Apparently so. Just so long as all you guys realize the stores know of this weakness and exploit the fuck out of it. Enjoy your free shipping-with-higher-product-prices-so-you-end-up-paying-more-total, guys. I’ll just be over here comparing actual total cost. :smiley:

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Damn you! I’m at work and supposed to be concentrating on a difficult project. No one’s going to believe that if I’m guffawing. :dubious:

13

Abandoning a cart piled high with merchandise that I was going to buy is SOOOO much more satisfying when done IRL!

I’m wondering if these people who are so obsessed with free shipping are the same people who will park six blocks away and walk, rather than pay a parking meter? I’m sure that would include me, if I actually did any shopping on-line.

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Same goes for rebates. They know only a fraction will cash them in but it’s like a marketing magnet.

15

Alas, I messed up on my last online order. The items I wanted totaled $48, and shipping was something like $6. But the store offered free shipping on orders over $50.

Of course I completely failed to see the obvious… add something, anything, to my cart so long as it cost less than $6 and my total would have been less. There were plenty of items I could have used that fit the price point.

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I can never buy just one thing if I’m paying for shipping. $10 or whatever to ship one thing is just ridiculous! So I pay even more to get something else so it’s only $5 to ship each thing…

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That is absolutely me. I hate paying for parking and have no problem walking 6 blocks (or more!) if I know I’ll be able to find a free spot.