hard life
a couple of weeks ago i signed up for a free trial of amazon prime. it is for 3 months. it give you free 2 day shipping.
i order not a small amount of stuff off of amazon and it seem that it has been taking longer and longer for the free shipping stuff to be shipped. sometimes it was WEEKS. this annoyed me. i like shopping amazon. even though the prices aren’t always amazing, frequently they are good and if you factor no sales tax they are even better. but it was taking SO LONG to get things that it was not worth it usually.
then i signed up for this prime trial where you get free two day shipping. HOWEVER their two=one= less than one in some cases.
i had occasion to order some stuff.
and i noticed things were showing up IMMEDIATELY. seriously. yesterday afternoon we went to target. ben decided he wanted this trimmer set. saw that it was $5 less on amazon. we ordered it at 4:30 pm. it was sitting outside my front door when we left for the park at 10 am.
SERIOUSLY.
this has happened with a couple of things i ordered – the next day showing up. some books. some dish towels. a present. i’ve had the occasion to see then delivery. it has been some dude in his sedan. FOR REALS.
turns out a lot of the stuff is sent via a courier service called A1 from a warehouse south of the city in indiana.
so i’ve really been enjoying prime and we will definitely be paying the $80 year for it when it expires in jan. i know that the extra speedy is due to living in(near) chicago.
I love Amazon Prime. I use it all the time. Though my stuff does take the “whole” 2 days to get here. Lucky you having a distribution center nearby!
You know I use prime all the tome but I don’t think I’ve ever paid for it.. I think around Christmas time they offer free prime membership if you spend a certain amount. It is awesome..
You know I practically work for Amazon, right? Anyway, it sucks that we have to pay sales tax – 10%! – on Amazon in Washington.
i think that sales tax is 10% basically everywhere. at least here in chicago and in hot springs. though. when i buy online from stores that i do have to pay sales tax (any store with a store in IL) it only charges ~6% sales tax. so i am really surprised that you pay 10% that sucks!
Well, on my last order I paid $4.13 tax on a $43.46 order, so 9.5%, which is our tax level here. It actually used to be 9% until recently, and that half percent definitely made a difference on my wedding costs.
I only know here, Virginia (5% now, 4.5% and less when I was growing up), and Texas, which is about 8%. I looked it up, and Chicago actually has the highest sales tax of all US cities. Maybe Illinois has a 6% state tax and these stores where you pay 6% are located outside of Chicago? Amazon is located in my county, so all the taxes apply for me.