shopping is hard; let's go...

[cellio]

Me: What do we need, that is available from Amazon, that costs $4.02?
Dani: Is this what's known as a first-world problem?
Me: Not the most egregious I've seen, but yeah.

Free shipping: modifying buyer behavior since...whenever they started that. But it works because of their enormous catalogue; you can find something to fill out an order. (For personal orders this is pretty much never a problem, but I was buying house stuff and thus using shared money.)

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Comments

[sine_nomine]

IIRC, you can actually search on whatever price you're looking for and the search engine will return items with that price....

[cellio]

Oh, huh. That's clever. And if you can constrain the search so it doesn't show you whole categories of stuff you don't care about, even useful. :-)