New discounts at Amazon.com

 
 
 

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Posted by Classicsmiley in United States, 09 Dec 2011 12:19

It may only be a penny for the minifig, but the store that has these is charging $4.99 for shipping for each one...

Posted by onlytoto in United States, 09 Dec 2011 12:34

How nice..

Posted by squall15 in United States, 09 Dec 2011 12:38

Just like Classicmiley said, shipping is $4.99 each. I added 10 to my cart and the shipping was $49.90. Way to good to be true...

Posted by madplanet in United Kingdom, 09 Dec 2011 13:27

There is a UK seller doing the same thing. Surely that shouldnt be allowed.

Posted by kbsig106 in United States, 09 Dec 2011 14:03

Minifigure sale fail!!!!!! I saw series 5 at my local TRU store last week.

Posted by Tocko in Slovenia, 09 Dec 2011 14:05

They are just 1.66€ on my local supermarket.

Posted by BRICKDAD in United States, 09 Dec 2011 15:44

Brickset should be embarrassed for advertising this! This is not a sale.

Posted by DrDaveWatford in United Kingdom, 09 Dec 2011 16:27

The Bargain Watch system is designed to compensate for the shipping cost when calculating the level of discount, so it's unclear what's happened here, and now the deal that was available at the time of the update is gone, I don't think there's any way of checking.

Posted by legomaniac in United States, 09 Dec 2011 17:04

I was about to go nuts and then read about the shipping. *continue what I was doing*

Posted by Huw in United Kingdom, 09 Dec 2011 17:05

I can only assume that at the time the price was fetched the postage was indeed $0, hence it appearing here. Let's see what happens when the price is fetched again and if it's still wrong, I'll investigate.

Posted by Zrath in United States, 09 Dec 2011 17:17

That's a problem with Amazon and combined-shipping. It's not smart enough to figure out a shipping rate for multiple items, and I don't think the software is set up so you can feed it info on shipping for additional items.
I bought some used CDs from a friend of mine on his Amazon store and we wound up concluding the transaction outside of Amazon.

Posted by Alemas in Germany, 09 Dec 2011 17:48

Noticed this just now. :P Funny. :P

EDIT: Wait, the postage is $4.99, and Brickset should count this into the price, but it doesn't! It says there's free postage!

EDIT 2: @Huw: Can't you do a manual data fetch?

Posted by zjygkmatt in United States, 09 Dec 2011 18:16

I did go nuts. And Amazons new method of quick check out left me realizing I rushed and had to call to make sure my $150.00 order was canceled. Thumbs down on this one.

Posted by sinfanti in Taiwan, Province of China, 09 Dec 2011 20:34

This is why all of my saved Amazon searches weed out non-Amazon sellers.

Posted by mkoesel in United States, 12 Dec 2011 09:49

@sinfanti - that's a great idea. I never thought to even investigate that possibility. That would actually make Amazon a usable site again, back like it was before they let the ebay-like vulture retailers in.

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