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I bought some kitchen foil via Amazon: 2 rolls of 450mm x 90m @ £18.99 including VAT and delivery. It's the brand I like - thick enough to not rip like wet tissue but thin enough to not squash the food.
And it arrived today - in a huge box that was about 85% air and 15% product - with an invoice.
Fine. And the invoice has a web address, so I think "Great! I'll have a look - maybe remember them for next time and save a little more by going direct".
And it's priced up at £17.98 ex VAT (@20%) or delivery ... which is only free for orders over £70. So if I buy directly, it'll cost me around 30% for the privilege.
This isn't the only site that does this - I buy Sous Vide bag rolls from FleaBay because the price includes VAT and free delivery but is less than going direct to the company.
So the company gets less money and has to pay a cut to Amazon / FleaBay / Paypal on top?
Is it just me that thinks that's really stupid?
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Amazon is so much used that it is in itself an advertisement, so it makes sense. Also the site may be not updated - it happens many, many times.
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When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Agreed. It seems like a rather poor business model.
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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I think it is about quantity (number of sales)... Via Amazon the sell more than via direct site and much of the delivery goes on the already active delivery routes Amazon has...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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How many users use amazon?
How many users would know the original web-shop without amazon?
What is better, 50 cent benefit from 10k purchases a day/month/whatever? or 5$ benefit from 10 purchases a day/month/whatever?
It might be forced by amazon too, no idea.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
modified 22-Sep-16 10:11am.
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Um, maybe because if an online shop didn't have a website it wouldn't be an online shop?
You never know.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I suspect that Amazon takes care of a lot of overhead that merchants don't necessarily like to have to take care of themselves, and would rather have customers buy through them...and the only reason they have a site of their own at all is because they pretty much have to--just so Google can say they exist.
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I can't help but wonder if the classic mistake is being made here - that is, to prioritise the profit per item over the profit per day.
It's the same with shops having sales - the important thing is profits garnered in a day. Who cares how hard the drones have to work to keep the shelves stocked unless this affects their pay? Who cares if we make 1/4 the profit per item if we sell 5 times as many items.
Simple economics, methinks.
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You mix up two letters, and your whole post is urined! 
I'll get my coat...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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OK - so you hate spelling errors. Would you mind an awful lot telling us words do you like to spell? Or at least, words you don't mind spelling.
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Johnny J. wrote: I'll get my coat...
I urined on it.
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Hey, what's up with the "3" it comes and goes like the mailman to your house when you're away at work? 
Can't keep track of all your accounts? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Yeah my phone is still logged in to the Pompey I hardly use the phone for here.
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Sips off!
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Seriously, would that be a spoonerism or an anagram? Or, is it some other kind of thing?
Does it have a name?
Edit
Oh, I just thought of the word. I think maybe....malapropism.
Good stuff. You made me thing today.
modified 22-Sep-16 10:26am.
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Hang in there for a second while I fill out my card[^] for you...
Seriously, I REALLY NEED to get me some of those! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I remember when someone was learning C# syntax and they kept typing pubic ...
Makes me wonder why their finger-memory was keyed on the phrase. 
Marc
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Lately, even though I must've typed it a million times before, I find myself typing "Microsot".
We all know what "micro" means, and it turns out a "sot" is "a habitual drunkard".
The universe must be trying to tell me something...
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I work in the print industry, so I type the word "print" in my code frequently.
Well, after I correct it, that is. It almost always comes up "pint" the first time through for some odd reason? ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
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Marc Clifton wrote: I remember when someone was learning C# syntax and they kept typing pubic ...
Makes me wonder why their finger-memory was keyed on the phrase.
I'd also not want to use their keyboard.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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What I hate is when your text message is messed up and you send a text totally different from what you intended, and then have to explain that you really did not mean to say that. Then there are the cases you try to send a message with a word not in the dictionary, or what is considered a dirty word and it does not want to allow you to send it.
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Dua Lipa - Be The One[^]
After two weeks of vacation there's finally a new SOTW! (I know you guys are eagerly waiting for it every week) 
This week it's a hit song I heard on the radio while on vacation.
It's been on repeat ever since I got back
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Sander Rossel wrote: Be The One[^]
To which I reply with: I am the one[^]
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I am not going near that earworm! 
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