Amazon gives non-Prime members free shipping at $35 or more of eligible items. Instead of simply letting users get the product with free shipping, they’ve added a discount that prices it exactly one cent below the $35 limit, while only subsidizing the price with $3.38, which is about half of what they’ll then charge you for shipping.

  • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    if we’re talking branding, AMD, EVGA, asus, and a handful of other similar companies. You could argue they’re unethical if you wanted, but again, i’m literally not an ethical consumer. And also, there are no alternatives.

    Buying things used/second hand subverts the ethical consumption problem from the get go. So.