How not to get my business
Jan. 5th, 2012 08:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumI just didn't order some brewing equipment from, Learn to Brew, LLC, by way of Amazon.
It was a five gallon carboy, a bottle capper, some caps, a carboy sling, some bungs and an vapor lock. The total for the order was about 60 bucks. The shipping, standard ground, delivery date 1-3 weeks, came to more than 50 dollars.
I figured this must be because of the carboy being hard to package. Since there is a brewing supply in Queens, I figured we could go to get it. So I droped that from the order, which reduced my goods to about 30 bucks, and the shipping to 29 dollars and change.
I went to their website (which is not user friendly. The stoppers don't say what size bottle carboy they fit, and the "continue shopping" button doesn't take one back to the page one was on, but rather to the homepage). From them directly, the shipping was 7.99.
So, whatever kickback Amazon gets from them, Amazon lost.
It was a five gallon carboy, a bottle capper, some caps, a carboy sling, some bungs and an vapor lock. The total for the order was about 60 bucks. The shipping, standard ground, delivery date 1-3 weeks, came to more than 50 dollars.
I figured this must be because of the carboy being hard to package. Since there is a brewing supply in Queens, I figured we could go to get it. So I droped that from the order, which reduced my goods to about 30 bucks, and the shipping to 29 dollars and change.
I went to their website (which is not user friendly. The stoppers don't say what size bottle carboy they fit, and the "continue shopping" button doesn't take one back to the page one was on, but rather to the homepage). From them directly, the shipping was 7.99.
So, whatever kickback Amazon gets from them, Amazon lost.
