OK, trip done, back to 2008.
An oddity of buying things online from Amazon--whose website I love, for their enormous investment in the infrastructure and development for storing all those reviews by customers -- is their weird policy for free shipping. I just bought something for which the total came to $24.99, one penny less than qualifies for free shipping. The shipping total was a bit over $5. So anything less than $5 shipped from Amazon is free, but it's hard to find stuff for less than $5.In the modern age, it is just guaranteed that someone has put a solution to this problem somewhere on the web, and as expected, here is a whole compilation of various solutions:
http://www.wisebread.com/filler-strategies-for-amazon-s-free-super-saver-shipping
Ha! So Amazon paid me about $5 to accept an espresso spoon, whatever that is. This is a nonsensical business decision on the part of Amazon -- why does anyone still think the macroeconomics idea that the market is rational?
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