Yea, you as the seller can tell whether your items are going to get commingled.

As a buyer I have no idea (unless there is a way to see this now, as a buyer..). So I kind of have to assume that everything fulfilled by Amazon is.

Yeah, absolutely. I was just saying how it works.

I also misunderstood what you said, I thought you meant buying sold and shipped from Amazon avoided commingled inventory. You actually said the opposite.

As a seller I can tell if an item is allowed to be commingled if I add it to my inventory. You can't tell before you add it to your inventory as far as I know. Buyer has no idea. It seems random for what they forbid to commingle. Like one particular hard drive but not others.

If you buy from a third party seller you have no idea if they opted into commingled inventory or not.

> I don't understand the appeal of getting my stuff in 2 days vs say 4days or whatever. If it was an immediate need I'd either buy locally or pay the upgraded shipping when I need it.

It's killer for me and my family. Everything we get online instead of going to a store means one fewer trip out in traffic either 1) with the kids or 2) at night after they've gone to bed but we're tired.

I buy most things online and I still don't see the appeal. Would you otherwise spend $80 on shipping a year? That's an awful lot for just shipping.

I guess I see it this way: If I buy a whisk, or a hard drive, or a vacuum cleaner, or a video game I don't need it this second, I take the free or saver shipping and I get it when it comes, which is 2-4 days 99% of the time. Like the old fashion "put it on the shopping list" method. There's no urgency in me to get it in two days.

The non-perishables like toilet paper, paper towels, shampoo, etc. I stock up on when they go on sale so I don't generally run out so there's rarely urgency. But paying attention to your stock accomplishes the same thing.

The few times I've needed something earlier, like when my phone broke and I ordered a new phone, I paid $6 to upgrade to two day shipping. That's the one case I can think of when I could wait two days but not four.

The typical Prime buyer basically never comparison shops or wait for sales. It encourages this behavior.

I get people have different proprieties than me though even though I can't personally understand it. When my brother moved into his own place he bought a bunch home type stuff and ordered it all off Amazon because "Prime." Later on I mentioned something about comparison shopping and he told me he didn't even think to comparison shop for any of that stuff. He was like "oh... I should have done that" (On a related note, ordering directly from the manufacturer on some of that sort of stuff gets you the best prices)

I think of Prime Video as having some of the value of Prime for me. Call that worth at least $3/month.

Then, for packages I don't need right away (which is a lot of them), I can pick "no rush shipping", which typically gives me a $1 Amazon Digital credit. Stack up a few of those per month and Prime becomes almost free. (We rent movies occasionally from Amazon.)

Then, extend Prime by a month everytime Amazon misses a guaranteed delivery date and Prime has basically no net cost to me. I was already ordering from Amazon multiple times per week before Prime was created. I'm sure Prime has increased that somewhat, but I still cross-shop Ebay, BestBuy, and others as well as checking camelcamelcamel.com on anything of non-trivial cost.

I'd pay $8 / month just for the non-shipping benefits, especially Prime Video. The fact that I also get free two day shipping is awesome.

My big pet peeve are add-on items. I don't understand why they don't just give me the option to pay for shipping. I don't mind paying $10 shipping on a $1 item. It's still cheaper than driving to a store.

I haven't tried this myself (maybe it doesn't work) but why not just order a physical $25 Amazon gift card (like https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-com-Amount-Amazon-Shipping-Bir... ) and then the addon will ship with it for free.

Edit: Just tried it, didn't work. Khaaaaaaaaaan!

Some of us don't have a local option. I live in the countryside and it's a 30 minute drive in to town, which I only do twice a month. I do probably 2 or 3 Amazon orders per week. They give me a $1 off a digital movie rental if I opt for slow shipping so I usually rack up a free movie by Friday night. But it's nice to do 2 days if it happens to be something that I really need. I would go way over $8/mo if I had to pay for shipping.

Or the local option is Fry's which is just a physical Amazon with worse-quality Chinese junk parts, all a disorganized mess, with pushy sales people who can't actually help you find anything, but want their commission cut when you do.

> Honestly, personally, I don't understand the appeal of getting my stuff in 2 days vs say 4days or whatever. If it was an immediate need I'd either buy locally or pay the upgraded shipping when I need it. That's just me though

I agree and when I order never concern myself with prime shipping. However I do find a slight distaste anytime I receive shipping information to find it won't be here for 3+ days. I'm not sure why but something about immediate item receipt is rewarding and waiting for more than a few days I am less excited about receiving said package.

I don't mind if it takes a while to get to me once it's shipped but I am sorta annoyed when it takes 3 days to ship it.

I don't understand 2 day either. In the UK it is 1 day, for some stuff same day. That makes a big difference. But 2 day for me tips it over sufficiently that often if things are not available with Prime shipping I might as well pick it up the next day when out and about.