Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees

Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees by dylan604 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @12:42PM (#31029434)

Or, you know, call it a shipping charge. If offering free shipping is too expensive, don't offer free shipping.

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Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees by hypertele-Xii on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:22PM (#31030105)

Free shipping plus additional fees for fuel, vehicle maintenance and driver salaries. Love it.

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Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees by jjeaff on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:00PM (#31030731)

Kind of like how Door Dash and others show free delivery, or $1.99 delivery. Then when you checkout, you have a "service" charge as well as a request to tip (i.e. actually pay because we aren't paying them anything) the delivery driver.

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Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees by doubled112 on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:26PM (#31030176)

This does sound like shipping fees with extra steps.

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Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees by chihuahua on Thursday April 14, 2022 @01:58PM (#31030683)

At one point, Eddie Bauer (the clothing company) offered free shipping, but there was a handling fee of $3 per item. But woohoo, free shipping!

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Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees by bombcar on Thursday April 14, 2022 @03:30PM (#31032122)

This is the entire business model of Shutterfly.

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Re:Amazon adds 5% ‘fuel and inflation surcharge’ to seller fees by lobocinza on Thursday April 14, 2022 @02:46PM (#31031474)

Kind of what MercadoLivre does. The seller pay extra to offer "free shipping", the product is listed as free shipping but depending on what it will cost MercadoLivre they add a surcharge during checkout.

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