On Sat, 7 Jan 2017 10:21:54 -0500, woodchucker
wrote:

On 1/7/2017 9:40 AM, Leon wrote:
On 1/6/2017 10:47 PM, wrote:
On Fri, 6 Jan 2017 18:55:28 -0500, woodchucker
wrote:

On 1/6/2017 4:00 PM, Jack wrote:
On 1/6/2017 10:57 AM, John McCoy wrote:

I think Sears will go out of business shortly.

I agree with you. I don't think they have a clue how to
solve their problems - they're still trying to figure out
"how do we compete with Walmart", when the world has moved
on and the real competition is the likes of Dollar General
(and, of course, Amazon).

I recently mentioned I was looking to replace my Sony earphones. Amazon
doubled the price from $14 to $27, plus shipping. I finally found
them
online at Walmart for $14 and free shipping. Walmart knows whats up,
and if Amazon isn't careful, it will be in the bag with Sears/Kmart.



I don't think so. I have a peeve with Amazon. Originally free shipping
over $25.. then they moved it to $35, and quickly thereafter to $49... I
understand the $35, but the $49 was not necessary. It was to make you
buy into PRIME.. and that's where my disdain lies. I understood when
they said in order for them to remain profitable they had to move to
$35.. That I got..

I just keep adding stuff to my cart until it gets to the $49
threshold. It's really not that much money.



LOL, that strategy payed off for them in your case. ;~) I have been
tempted to do that on occasion and think to my self, am I really saving,
money and or time, by buying from Amazon if I spend more than I intended?

With Prime I buy only what I need at the time. If I make 3 separate
orders in one day they still ship for free.


Are you really saving when you spend over $100 to join prime?
In my case I don't watch much TV, so I wouldn't benefit by the TV shows.

Most TV shows are available online, anyway. Our DVR often screws up
so we just go to the network's on demand site and watch. The only
down side is that fast-forward doesn't work.

I prefer to spend it in the shop. I guess my wife would watch, but my
high speed is limited to 6mb as I live out in the boonies.

We just got AT&T Uverse this year. Before that we had AT&T DSL
(*maybe* 6Mb but usually no more than 3Mb), so I feel your pain. BTW,
Uverse is far from perfect. It just stops for a few seconds, fairly
often. TV stuff is buffered enough that it isn't affected much but
streaming on the computer or audio has real problems.

I have noticed that with my son's Prime there are a lot of items that
are ineligible to add to your cart on prime.. meaning you have to add
more items before they will ship that on prime.. I would have to look
back on my purchases to around april last year, but I had to pad an
order for them to ship cerain things even through prime. Even though I
had spent enough, those items did not add to the total b4 shipping. WTF!!!

I do think the 2 day is nice, he ordered a bunch of stuff for Christmas
and had it shipped here. Often it came before 8:30 in the morn.
Sometimes b4 8.