12mo ago

etc.

It's a website that lets you sort amazon by price per ounce/pound/count

Some examples are:

Been using it for months, and I can't stand using Amazon without it now.

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- The creator is smart, this is a great and slick service.
  They may not be wise.
- As a furry, this is blatant false advertising. I will be writing a sternly-worded letter to my representatives about this! #weDemandBucks 😤
- I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought about that twice.

I want to find the cheapest item by weight with free shipping, really stick it to the man.
so far 17¢/lb for sand is the best I've found.
- Maybe don't kill our planet for your petty bullshit. Consumerism is bad enough already.
- Ahh looks like it might be the sellers put in the wrong information. Which sucks, cause I was like... surely I can do something fun with that much sand!

But 50% of all items I check have incorrect or nonexistant unit price listed
- Yeah some products don't work because the sellers don't fill out the information properly.

If you buy the cheapest rice, the cheapest batteries, or the cheapest hard drive, off Amazon, of all fuckin places, you're going to have a bad time

Getting the best value is frequently an economic mistake for a buyer because it does not take into account the present vs future value of money. Not to mention how it is sure to increase your waste/shrink factor and so can eat up its own savings.
Don't deliberately overconsume just to feel like a savvy buyer. Buy a reasonable amount for your own needs and no more. I get that we all like Costco, but the business model really isn't that good for typical consumers.
- That's a fine point!
  I usually only buy dry rice/beans and the like bulk, which I eat the same amount of every week pretty much regardless. But still only ever buy like a month or so worth at a time.
  Getting bulk snacks though from costco... that is a bad move.

If it doesn't work to factor in all the "click this box to save X amount" buttons, then it's a bit useless.
I'm pretty sure amazon started implementing that shit in order to ruin price tracking sites like camelcamelcamel.

You should know that you can shop other places, leaving Amazon to be shitty without your money in their coffers.
- Exactly. There is so much stuff online and off and they depend on folks not giving in to convenience. The way amazon treats both their workers and their sellers is horrendous. I make it a point of shopping elsewhere and only in extreme circumstances buy there.

Search for a USB flash drive to find some really sketchy scam attempts. Looks like you’re getting a gazillion gigabytes for a few dollars, but in reality you’ll get a lesson in what e-waste means. Scroll down to find the realistic products with realistic prices.

ooh, this needs to be a Firefox extension!
edit: I take that back, no, it should stay just the way it is. It works great!

Wow thanks that is awesome, gotta remember that site. For rice I already found the 50lbs pack that also beats my local discount grocer (which is rare).
What pisses me off that amazon has made it's "sort by cheapest" completely unusable. You find 100 pages of the exact same ultra-trashy product or something related or a replacement part or something.

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