• talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones “feel” faster by comparison

    Isn’t that how Amazon prime works?

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      24 minutes ago

      The main benefit of Prime is savings on shipping. Without it, Amazon’s far too expensive. Maybe they slow shipping speed for regular customers, but seems like they’d shoot themselves in the foot. Who pays extra shipping and waits twice as long? In any case, if you’re going to use Amazon, you’re all but forced to buy Prime. Which is fine by me. I can’t afford the 20-mile roundtrip to town and the extra price on other sites.

      Of course this is a thread about software where people pay $40 to get cold McDonald’s delivered, so maybe consumers are even dumber than I thought.