That bottle of melatonin, $7 on Amazon, prime add on.
$15 at the localish drug store that's a 5 mile drive each way. Yes, that's the closest store.
It's incredibly annoying.
Also, smya 107 helicopter tail booms w/motor, $4.00 prime add on, $4.00 shipped free from HK with a 3-4 week delivery time. Kid wants it fixed. Might as well just buy it, and another copter just to have spares around and to hit prime shipping.
Just let me pay shipping. It's worth it. Anything else is just a big fu. They've got the item, I've got the cash. Let me use it.
Lately even those, 'China Post' packages arrive fairly quickly within 3-5 days which is amazing.
I've got a couple batteries on order that I ordered before Kid burned out the tail motor that still haven't arrived. His came with a bunch of spare plastic parts, but not the electronic bits. Some day I'll replace the rotors and he'll see what undented leading edges can do for him.
I've gotten a bunch of stuff through China Post shipping, and never had them faster than a couple of weeks.
The reason you are annoyed by add-ons, is because you came to rely on Amazon for things you can and probably should by in neigbourhood store. I would buy thumbtacks and such things in dollar store acros the street.
I am similar in that I buy common things from Amazon, I like how it is organized and it makes sense to me when I order.