Amazon One-hour Delivery
December 25, 2014 11:26 AM   Subscribe

Amazon has worked diligently on improving its product delivery process. Same-day delivery is pretty standard now in parts of the country where they have closer distribution centers. They have also implemented lockers for pickup and have been working on developing a delivery method by remote control. In Manhattan, they have now implemented a one-hour delivery service for $7.99 (and two-hour delivery is free). Coming soon to a city near you.

If all continues to go well, Amazon may be able to recapture the efficiency of the underground pneumatic tubes developed in 1896 that delivered 200,000 pieces of mail per hour at 30 miles per hour. Apparently, special delivery was one hour, and regular letters took three.
posted by SpacemanStix (73 comments total) 11 users marked this as a favorite
 
Amazon.com: We'll Be Right Over!
posted by lantius at 11:40 AM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


I figure a lot of this is not intended to produce a new parallel national delivery system -- instead, it's to enhance Amazon's negotiating position when cutting deals with the traditional carriers. As long as the threat that they could move to lockers/same day delivery lurks in the background, then Fedex, UPS, and USPS will give them bigger discounts for the regular delivery service that still makes up the vast majority of their business.
posted by miyabo at 11:44 AM on December 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


Hmmm. I guess that'd be a lot of tubes.
posted by chasles at 11:55 AM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


well the thing about the internet is that it's...
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering at 11:55 AM on December 25, 2014 [6 favorites]


They have these at my 7-11
posted by jonmc at 12:05 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


The locker delivery is life changing if no carriers will leave an unattended package at your residence.
posted by dogwalker at 12:07 PM on December 25, 2014 [26 favorites]


Ironically, this is today's top national news here in the UK.
posted by Wordshore at 12:08 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


For the most part, the process was smooth but it wasn't without a few hiccups. There were several minutes in which the map on my phone didn't update so I didn't exactly see my item travel in real time.

This is straight out of Louis CK's Everything's Amazing and Nobody's Happy bit
posted by chavenet at 12:10 PM on December 25, 2014 [45 favorites]


That's $13 when you include the tip.
posted by bhnyc at 12:19 PM on December 25, 2014


The locker delivery is life changing if no carriers will leave an unattended package at your residence.

The locker delivery would be life changing at our house since recently USPS has decided they WILL leave unattended packages on our front stoop in the middle of downtown Baltimore.
What the hell are they thinking?
posted by zoinks at 12:22 PM on December 25, 2014 [5 favorites]


zoinks if I'm lucky and you're not my carrier here in Bowie will transfer up to Baltimore. Her specialty is leaving the mailbox lid open when it's raining. She has to open it to put the mail in...it's...I can't even...
posted by wintermind at 12:27 PM on December 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


Yeah, I would love a locker in opposition to this new thing where they leave the package directly in front of my apartment door in the shitty neighborhood I live in where people break out car windows just to steal quarters from people's cup rests.
posted by all about eevee at 12:29 PM on December 25, 2014 [5 favorites]


It's unlikely that this is actually coming soon to a city near me. It's equally unlikely that it's coming soon to a city near well over 50% of the US population.

It's an amusing idea, though. Good on Amazon for working on this kind of thing.
posted by hippybear at 12:31 PM on December 25, 2014 [6 favorites]


My mail carrier shoves the mail in so far that it comes out the back of the mailbox. Seriously. She'll shove in some regular mail, then shove in a book or other small package, and the first mail will fall out the back.
posted by sonic meat machine at 12:32 PM on December 25, 2014


I'm still pretty upset that there were all those stories about Amazon Lockers in DC back in 2012 but they're all actually in stupid Arlington. You know where people have high density housing and big problems with package theft? Major, proper cities like Washington, DC. 24 hour USPS lockers would be better, and of course there's a set of USPS lockers in Pentagon City but ain't nobody got time for that.
posted by Skwirl at 12:36 PM on December 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


At least your mail carriers will actually leave your boxes. Where I live they don't leave the boxes. I just get a series of notices and then the package goes back to sender. Not sure how that's supposed to work.
posted by bleep at 12:37 PM on December 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


Y'all need to be baking better stuff at Christmas for your letter carriers.
posted by Etrigan at 12:45 PM on December 25, 2014 [10 favorites]


It's unlikely that this is actually coming soon to a city near me. It's equally unlikely that it's coming soon to a city near well over 50% of the US population.

Everything Amazon does will be available everywhere within two years of it being implemented. The Lizard People who live under Los Angeles will be able to send artisinal mushrooms in two hours to the mole people that live under Montana via drone within two years, thanks to Amazon.
posted by maxsparber at 1:14 PM on December 25, 2014 [9 favorites]


Thanks to the seriously wack-ass behavior of my postal worker, Amazon Locker has been decisive in getting me to buy from them instead of from companies less freakishly hegemonic and whose business practices I like better.
posted by George_Spiggott at 1:18 PM on December 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


It's unlikely that this is actually coming soon to a city near me. It's equally unlikely that it's coming soon to a city near well over 50% of the US population.

No kidding. I just checked for the lockers (which would have been a godsend at the last apartment I lived in, where the downstairs meth people would use their abundant unemployed free time to prowl for packages). They don't have a national map as far as I can tell and there are only so many zip codes I will type in before getting bored, but I'd be surprised if there was one within 500 miles of where I am right now. (In contrast, there are about ten locations listed for the Seattle zip code where I lived many years ago.)
posted by Dip Flash at 1:21 PM on December 25, 2014


Y'all need to be baking better stuff at Christmas for your letter carriers.

Oh how nice it would be to have the same regular carrier for a few months, let alone a whole year.
posted by dogwalker at 1:22 PM on December 25, 2014 [15 favorites]


"the recommended tip of $5 seemed rather steep"

Are you f*ing kidding me? Some dude sprinted across the city to bring you the video game of your choice in 30 minutes. That man deserves to come on in, be given a cold beer, and get to hang out and play said video game with you for at least an hour.
posted by rbellon at 1:24 PM on December 25, 2014 [58 favorites]


That man deserves to come on in, be given a cold beer, and get to hang out and play said video game with you for at least an hour.

I think a strong case could be made that, given Amazon's astronomical cashflow, that guy deserves a living wage that isn't dependent on the whims of the customer.
posted by fifthrider at 1:27 PM on December 25, 2014 [122 favorites]


Agreed. AND a big tip. And a beer.

I was more speaking to the seeming entitlement of the author and less on the policies of Amazon.

/goes back to lurking
posted by rbellon at 1:40 PM on December 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


Yeah, down with tipping. Pay that guy so much money he's too snooty to accept a tip. "Sir, I'm a professional."
posted by anotherpanacea at 1:41 PM on December 25, 2014 [27 favorites]


"...that guy deserves a living wage that isn't dependent on the whims of the customer."

Fair. Who is doing the delivery? The article doesn't indicate. Is it an Amazon employee, or are they outsourcing to some other company?
posted by Time To Sharpen Our Knives at 1:42 PM on December 25, 2014


Well, the shippers switch to drones and the thieves switch to kayaks; it's an arms race, really.
posted by George_Spiggott at 1:42 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


...that guy deserves a living wage that isn't dependent on the whims of the customer.
Well, doesn't that really apply to pretty much everybody we "tip"?
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:44 PM on December 25, 2014 [5 favorites]


Delivered by moonlighting Uber drivers between terrorizing single women and driving the wrong way onto overpasses, yes?
posted by Scram at 1:55 PM on December 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


I really won't be happy with amazon until they have drones with 3d printer extruders on their bottoms that fly to your house and proceed to squirt out the widget you ordered. Preferably, they don't tell you about this and design the drones to look like sickly birds, so people get really confused when a pathetic beast falls on their doormat and poops out a phone case.
posted by mccarty.tim at 1:56 PM on December 25, 2014 [52 favorites]


It's even a little quicker if the delivery person takes a shortcut through the Canadian guy's head.
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 1:57 PM on December 25, 2014 [11 favorites]


Come to think of it, pnumatic tubes are good for regional delivery in a dense metropolis, but that won't cut it for the burbs and flyover country. Bring back rocket mail and use up some decommissioned ICBM motors. Remember that post about soldiers sitting around missile silos all day, who got a badge featuring the grim reaper sitting around wearing bunny slippers? They are bored as hell not blowing up the world. Promote them to postal workers.
posted by mccarty.tim at 2:07 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


Can anyone remember the names of the two companies in NYC that went bust in the first .com era doing exactly this?

I remember a friend in Pittsburgh chatting with his girlfriend in NYC in 1999 (it was ICQ instead of Snapchat). She was bored and went on their website, ordered a Gameboy like it was a pizza. Some bike courier showed up with it 40 minutes later. We were impressed for at least 30 minutes.

But seriously, if you live in a big city with bike couriers, you can get just about anything weighing less than 10 kilos in under an hour. It's been like this for about 150 years. The only thing that is new here is the kitchy "App" that shows you some errand boy or girl sprinting across town. This is about as novel as getting Kung Pao Chicken delivered. Oh that and that some skeezy platform capitalists steal a dollar from some hard-working people on one end or the other in order to give you 5 cents discount and 2 minutes of convenience.
posted by mr.ersatz at 2:09 PM on December 25, 2014 [10 favorites]


I was recently shocked by next day delivery of a Roomba. I ordered it a couple weeks before Christmas, and we live in an exurb of Seattle, with either a long drive or a ferry to get here. Next day! srsly
posted by dbmcd at 2:13 PM on December 25, 2014


A series of tubes. Amazon has been out-innovated by several years with the Telekommunisten's Octo pneumatic packet delivery system.
posted by mr.ersatz at 2:15 PM on December 25, 2014


I will be impressed when they open a department store with all the junk I want in my house for me to shop as I am vacuuming. Instant gratification multi-tasking, baby!
posted by Alexandra Kitty at 2:17 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


Kozmo.com.
posted by grumpybear69 at 2:31 PM on December 25, 2014 [6 favorites]


Y'all need to be baking better stuff at Christmas for your letter carriers.

I gave my UPS guy a building key and a case of beer. Now he neatly stacks everyone's packages in the lobby every day and no one has to wonder what to do with those stupid notices.
posted by bradbane at 2:36 PM on December 25, 2014 [18 favorites]


What do you people's maids do all day if they can't be bothered to take delivery of some simple packages?
posted by signal at 2:58 PM on December 25, 2014 [7 favorites]


No it is NOT coming to a city near me because I don't live in the US and don't have a ZIP code. The US isn't the world.
posted by ethnomethodologist at 3:16 PM on December 25, 2014 [4 favorites]


Haven't we already come to conclusion that Pneumatic Tubes ARE our future (-ama)?
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:20 PM on December 25, 2014


Well, doesn't that really apply to pretty much everybody we "tip"?

Yeah, but this one is just starting so there's still time to say "Hold up, we want this to be a wage-based job, not a tipping one!" before it's permanently encrusted with tip culture.
posted by No-sword at 3:56 PM on December 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


Kozmo.com

Some friends met their dealer through kozmo. They had just had a Playstation and four pints of Ben and Jerry's delivered and the dude at the door was like "And is there anything else?" and they were all "Not unless you have any weed, cuz we're out." and the guy was "I saw your order come in and made sure I would deliver it because, well... can I come in and show you what I got?" and we were like HIGH FIVE STARS ALL AROUND WILL ORDER AGAIN. I guess they were part of the reason the site crashed - the company could not make money paying people to deliver a dollar candybar, even though the delivery guy was making money hand over fist with the weed upsell.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 4:00 PM on December 25, 2014 [42 favorites]


wintermind, luckily around here we just have mail slots in the doors and the carriers generally manage to get stuff all the way through. Otherwise the regular mail would almost certainly get rained on if it too wasn't stolen first.
bleep, I much prefer the notices to having to figure out that the package was stolen. My schedule is odd enough that I can usually get to the P.O. before it goes back to sender.
Etrigan, what dogwalker said. And those cookies of appreciation would likely just be stolen off the stoop before the carrier got there anyway.
(Things left on our stoop are subject to being stolen.)
posted by zoinks at 4:01 PM on December 25, 2014


Coming soon to a city near you.

Probably not, though, eh?
posted by lollusc at 4:04 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


It's unlikely that this is actually coming soon to a city near me. It's equally unlikely that it's coming soon to a city near well over 50% of the US population.

Amazon is probably using a pretty generous definition of "near" in order to make good on that promise. Maybe near relative to Antarctica, or the first Mars settlement.
posted by SpacemanStix at 4:06 PM on December 25, 2014


This is about as novel as getting Kung Pao Chicken delivered

In my town that would be magical. The only things that get delivered around here is pizza and warrants.
posted by sourwookie at 4:08 PM on December 25, 2014 [18 favorites]


Some dude sprinted across the city to bring you the video game of your choice in 30 minutes. That man deserves to come on in, be given a cold beer, and get to hang out and play said video game with you for at least an hour.

We just stopped having to do that shit with weed, though! (Tips are fine, but if I wanted enforced socialization, I'd go to the mall.)
posted by spaceman_spiff at 4:22 PM on December 25, 2014


Are you f*ing kidding me? Some dude sprinted across the city to bring you the video game of your choice in 30 minutes. That man deserves to come on in, be given a cold beer, and get to hang out and play said video game with you for at least an hour.

I know lots of messengers and delivery guys(and they're almost all bike polo players, or friends with a bunch of bike polo players). Don't worry, not everyone is an animal.

They smoke free weed, eat free food, and drink free beer all day.

they also probably bone some lonely housewives, but I don't ask.

It's also a very well paid job, but only because of tips, and I agree that's fucked up. They're all contractors with no benefits. get hit by a car? Enjoy your homelessness.

That's one area where Amazon could do the right thing here, and we all know they never ever will.
posted by emptythought at 4:39 PM on December 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


The baking suggestion was a joke and not actually intended to solve the problem. I do not need a reason that you are not baking for your letter carrier.
posted by Etrigan at 4:57 PM on December 25, 2014 [6 favorites]


The whole process took 30 minutes—from the moment I placed the order on my phone to the time I received my item (courtesy of a cheerful delivery guy who brought my video game in an unassuming paper bag).

I can only imagine the hideous capitalist witchcraft that makes this possible.
posted by ryanshepard at 5:11 PM on December 25, 2014


More cynically, this is another reminder of how the US is taking inequality into levels that used to be associated only with the developing world. These mean that I can now receive the immediate delivery of goods and services here in the US that I was able to get twenty years ago in poor countries, which is nice in some ways but also not great overall.

Fast, cheap, and ubiquitous delivery works only if you have the kind of serious income inequality where it makes sense for someone to be picking up and delivering small purchases. (It's worth noting that deliveries from grocery stores and pharmacies were a common feature in the US until about the 1960s; growing prosperity and the automobile made those largely disappear until the last decade or so.) People joke about drone deliveries and eventually it may all be automated, but right now Amazon relies on being able to staff their warehouses and delivery networks with vast arrays of low-wage workers.

It's the same reason that my grandparents (on the slightly more middle class side of the family; the other side was dirt poor) had a housecleaner and I can afford someone to come and clean once a week, but that was a total impossibility for my middle class parents. If you are slightly above whatever the dividing line is, you get fast deliveries and can afford services like cleaners and Uber drivers, but if you are just below that line you are going to be patching things together with workamping and title loans.
posted by Dip Flash at 5:16 PM on December 25, 2014 [11 favorites]


Next, algorithms will predict what you are likely to order and put it in a nearby locker - prelivery. Kind of like preloading links on a webpage.
posted by 445supermag at 5:20 PM on December 25, 2014 [2 favorites]


Ironically, this is today's top was news here in the UK

I can sympathise with anyone losing their job on Xmas day, but Citylink seemed to pretty much define ruinous incompetence. Practically every encounter I have had with them has been typified by a failure to deliver when they say they will, to make it easy to reschedule or to follow up on their failure to deliver, often followed by then offering an option for me to drive a three hour round trip to their depot. Just last week they decided not to bother delivering my new hob on the agreed day, after I had arranged to stay home from work and when we called they said they didn't know where it was, even though they had just sent an email saying it would be a day late. The upshot was it arrived after the installer was scheduled so it isn't fitted and we have no way to cook other than roasting over Xmas. So merry fucking Christmas arseholes.
posted by biffa at 5:30 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


445supermag, Amazon actually patented that, although the patent also described doing it for home addresses. It's called anticipatory shipping.

The idea is to get products shipped to hubs near the customers, and even ship them towards their houses when it thinks an order is likely to be placed. The idea is to send packages out with only partial address info (such as just zipcode or a street without a house number) and then send more specific shipping info to the shipping company when they know a specific customer wants it. And if the algorithm misfires and they end up preshipping an item where nobody ordered and the cost to return it to Amazon is prohibative, they compensate by discounting the item to people in the area, or even just delivering it to a customer as a promotional gift to "build goodwill."
posted by mccarty.tim at 5:33 PM on December 25, 2014 [5 favorites]


Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor (Vice, 30min). "VICE News traveled across the country, scouring warehouses, temp agencies, and temp towns in search of the people, who make our world of same day delivery possible."
posted by stbalbach at 6:21 PM on December 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


We've been using the 2-hour free delivery with the app and really like it.
posted by roomthreeseventeen at 7:13 PM on December 25, 2014


Next, algorithms will predict what you are likely to order and put it in a nearby locker - prelivery. Kind of like preloading links on a webpage.

That is sort of the whole point of wholesaling. You determine customer demand for each product and high turnover products are staged at regional warehouses closer to more customers. I think UPS also does this sort of logistics management, they warehouse and fulfill orders for other corporations.

But that was usually done on aggregate data, nothing personally identifiable. I think this changed in the mid 1980s when California supermarket chains started experimenting with customer loyalty cards. They quickly discovered there was more profit in data mining and selling results to corporations, than the profit in selling the products. But now with the internet, data mining is getting really creepy, like this infamous NYTimes report about how Target determined a woman was pregnant just by data mining.

As Pole’s computers crawled through the data, he was able to identify about 25 products that, when analyzed together, allowed him to assign each shopper a “pregnancy prediction” score. More important, he could also estimate her due date to within a small window, so Target could send coupons timed to very specific stages of her pregnancy.

Target is pushing a ton of baby products, you ought to see their iPhone apps, there is always a prominent baby section. You can sign up for automatic repeat deliveries of diapers or just about any baby product.
posted by charlie don't surf at 7:22 PM on December 25, 2014


No it is NOT coming to a city near me because I don't live in the US and don't have a ZIP code. The US isn't the world.

Just because it's not coming to 180-miles-south-of-the-literal-middle-of-nowhere doesn't mean this isn't true. You're just the cynical exception that proves the rule and makes us feel better about having it.
posted by Talez at 7:26 PM on December 25, 2014


Paul Ford called this, I will note.
posted by mwhybark at 7:41 PM on December 25, 2014 [1 favorite]


mr.ersatz - Kozmo's competition was UrbanFetch.com... They are still around but they've pivoted drastically.
posted by Stu-Pendous at 9:16 PM on December 25, 2014


I tried this a few days ago! I live in NYC and USPS package service to my building is friendly but inconsistent (and sometimes terrible). So when I saw Amazon Prime Now covered my zip code, I got a few last-minute Christmas gifts.

I ordered around 4:45pm and didn't pay $8 for a 1-hour delivery; instead, I selected the 6–8pm delivery window... for free. I was able to track the courier with my phone and he arrived with my items well within the delivery window. So hey! That worked. When my courier arrived he was very friendly (and just a little flustered; it was his first day on the job) and actually said "No tips!" and I thought, "Huh. Well good, because Amazon already encouraged me to tip on my credit card."

It's a shame the app selection doesn't have everything (I mean, it does have a lot). They obviously want you to think of it for "right now" things rather than usual shopping, but the option to, say, see my Amazon Wishlist would've been nice. They mostly want you to scroll through lots of large pictures (or search) to find items.

In fact, having used it once, I wish they would make the courier service an option for all future deliveries. Given that I don't have a doorman, if I order a package with free two-day Prime delivery I might not get it for a week or two while USPS gives me the "You weren't home!"/redelivery runaround. A few dollars tip for this service and "Pick a 2-hour delivery window for some date next week" would totally be worth it to me.
posted by Zephyrial at 10:00 PM on December 25, 2014 [3 favorites]


Next, algorithms will predict what you are likely to order and put it in a nearby locker - prelivery. Kind of like preloading links on a webpage.

That'd be pretty neat, and they wouldn't have to do a lot of sophisticated prediction to do it. How often do you put an item into your Amazon cart and then not actually pull the trigger on ordering it for a day or two? It'd be pretty tempting to hit the order button if they could say 'this item is waiting for you, 1.5 miles away'. Pretty soon you'd build up data on which users are responsive to that and which aren't.

Assuming they are using their own private courier service to take items back and forth from the warehouse to the lockers (meaning no marginal cost for a delivery when the truck isn't full and they're going to the locker location anyway), they could take items that are sitting in users' carts and preposition them in nearby underutilized lockers.

The real risk/expense is in taking the items back if the user decides not to purchase them (removes from cart or they sit idle too long) and there's contention for the lockers for actual orders.
posted by Kadin2048 at 10:55 PM on December 25, 2014


No it is NOT coming to a city near me because I don't live in the US and don't have a ZIP code. The US isn't the world.
Yeah, but the rest of us still have a functioning society so it evens out in the end.

What's that Randy? You got Destiny delivered in 30 minutes? Cool, I'm on a bus with free wi-fi heading to my doctor because of this tickly cough. Might pop back into work although I get paid for sickness so I'll probably just chill out and get well.
posted by fullerine at 2:07 AM on December 26, 2014 [13 favorites]


There's no Amazon here. I don't mind all that much.
posted by Too-Ticky at 2:45 AM on December 26, 2014


There is a pharmacy near me - one of the last independent pharmacies in my area - which will do delivery. The owner is old-school. I use this pharmacy because the owner and his relief pharmacist are super-nice, will do refills the same day, there is rarely a huge line, and all together it's a much better pharmacy than Walgreen's or CVS. (Unfortunately, it's not open on Sunday or 24 hours - the one drawback in emergencies.)

I realize what a privilege it is to be able to have this wonderful pharmacy (Oak Grove Pharmacy in Concord) and this is not available to most people where I live. But I'm happy to take my business there.

I've never taken advantage of the delivery, but I think it would be nice to have if I'm flat on my back and need my meds NOW and don't have anyone to pick them up for me.
posted by Rosie M. Banks at 9:28 AM on December 26, 2014 [1 favorite]


fullerine: Yeah, but the rest of us still have a functioning society so it evens out in the end.

What's that Randy? You got Destiny delivered in 30 minutes? Cool, I'm on a bus with free wi-fi heading to my doctor because of this tickly cough. Might pop back into work although I get paid for sickness so I'll probably just chill out and get well.


Hahahahahahaha...




:(
posted by gucci mane at 12:00 PM on December 26, 2014 [2 favorites]


In the future, Amazon will share locations with other companies, that can pipe raw materials (and any waste materials afterwards) to 3d printers, that will then print the lockers (or other accessories) required. They have taught their drones to operate lockers, and ride bikes for heavier packages.

In the far future, the physical location will be generated by Amazon Quantum.
posted by halifix at 1:54 PM on December 26, 2014


Your subscription fee will entitle you to participate in the multiversal reality which includes Amazon, known as Amazon Prime.
posted by mwhybark at 2:01 PM on December 26, 2014


mwhybark: "the multiversal reality which includes Amazon, known as Amazon Prime."

Also known as Amazon-616?
posted by signal at 2:19 PM on December 26, 2014 [2 favorites]


the multiversal reality which includes Amazon, known as Amazon Prime.

Featuring the new "Copenhagen" delivery option, in which they just spawn a new reality where you already have the item.

(In the uk, I'd pay extra to be able to choose who's delivering. Royal Mail have keys to my building and a collection depot 5 mins away, but Random Courier Company just send me a few vaguely accusatory emails saying "you were out!" then invite me to collect it from some sketchy warehouse on the outskirts of the city with no public transport links. Aargh.)
posted by metaBugs at 2:57 PM on December 26, 2014 [3 favorites]


Alternatively, Amazon started offering a slower "no-rush" shipping option this past summer, with the incentive of a dollar off of a digital product (book, music, video).
posted by filthy light thief at 7:17 PM on December 26, 2014


The "no-rush" thing is pretty alright. I bought about 20 $3.99 Blu-rays for work during Black Friday sales, got each one separately using no-rush, and used the accumulated dollars-off to get two free digital albums for myself. (Charli XCX and Tove Lo.)
posted by Karlos the Jackal at 2:39 PM on December 27, 2014


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