- Today, I'm going to show you the truth about free shipping
and why sometimes paying a little bit more can score you
a much better product delivered faster.
Hey guys, I'm The Deal Guy, Matt Granite,
from mattsdailydeals.com.
I'm an advocate for you all the time,
but especially during this,
very tough period that we are all in together.
We're cooped up at home, we have our essentials,
we need our deliveries, we've got stock issues.
A couple of weeks ago, I showcased the major changes
that affected your Prime account at that point.
And I've actually heard from a lot of you saying,
"should you cancel your Amazon Prime account?"
And my answer is well, if you're Prime account is mostly
to satisfy that free same-day or two-day shipping
that was promised when they were able
to provide that service,
you might not need your Prime membership.
If you are someone right now that's taking advantage
of the Prime Video, the free photo storage and many
of the other benefits that are otherwise tied
to the membership, which costs roughly
the same thing as a full Netflix account,
and you get the Prime Video built-in and the music benefits,
well then maybe you should keep it going.
I wanna let you guys answer those questions in the comments.
I got so many interesting and insightful comments last time.
But right now, I wanna give you a couple of examples
on why shipping free can lead to all sorts
of problems these days.
On mattsdailydeals.com I have all
of the essentials you need,
reminder I do use affiliate links,
which means I benefit monetarily by a few cents,
if you're kind enough to use one of my links,
but, for whatever essential it is that you need,
I have you covered here.
With that being said, you're going
to see free shipping from all of your favorite merchants.
Just an example, a lot of people like bubbly water
they like San Pellegrino, Perrier,
and there's no way they're gonna be
paying any per bottle fee,
and Soda Stream, has resurged in terms of popularity.
They've got free shipping.
But if you look right here, all orders
are experiencing up to 15 business days processing time.
That's just processing time to wait for your product.
If you were to go to another website
and pay four or five dollars for shipping,
I grantee you you're going to get it in three
to five days versus that 15 business day allowance.
I'm not saying that retailers
are hiding behind what's going on right now,
but the free shipping is an allowance that they have
by basically saying, "listen, we're getting it
"to you for free, we're gonna take as much time
"as we possibly need to do that."
And I'm gonna show you the examples right now,
where you pay a couple dollars more
and you're gonna do well.
Let's start with an Amazon example.
The 100 piece disposable glove set,
that you see on your screen right now,
will ship to you between April 20th and April 23rd
if you pay a seven dollar and 50 cent shipping fee.
Now I realize that's a higher shipping fee
but, you're getting a good deal on some gloves that may
be a necessity right now.
If you were to go to a Prime deal for this specific product,
you're going to get a slightly better deal,
but if you look at the free shipping that they
are offering you, it will be delivered by May 18th to 21st
at the earliest, or June 3rd to June 24th
and that's with free shipping.
I know we are all accustomed to gravitating toward
free shipping, we almost feel it's out right.
It's interesting, a lot of people will actually get mad
at me when their free shipping products
don't arrive in time.
If it is offset by three or four days,
I usually hear about it from subscribers,
as though I'm selling the products from my basement.
The interesting thing is because we're all programmed
"free shipping, free shipping, free shipping",
which is kind of the Amazon effect,
we need to get beyond that, especially right now.
Let's use cooking oil as an example
and there's all different types of cooking oils
right now that have different delays depending on
the same type of the week,
I'm not gonna compare apple for apples
because I can't find the same sizes
of the exact same type available.
But let's look at canola oil as an example.
You'll see right now,
that if I take the paid shipping option off of Amazon,
six dollar shipping fee,
I get a very large container delivered
around April 16th and 21st,
which I can live with, that is like right around
the corner at the time I'm uploading.
But, if I were to search for the free shipping version
of any other type of oil,
I'm going to get a delivery time of around one
to three weeks from now, at the earliest.
And that's free shipping versus paid shipping.
Another example, on a lantern that I featured
not too long ago from IntelliShopper,
there is a four dollar and 99 cent shipping fee
tied to these lighting capsules,
which are great for all sorts of emergencies.
If you go onto Amazon and you search for a free equivalent,
at least at the time I'm recording this,
19 dollars and 99 cents,
I get a slightly better price
but this won't deliver until May sixth,
and there's only eight left in stock
of a product that is very similar to what I featured.
So for four dollars and 99 cents, if my power goes out,
I actually have something that will work now,
rather than wait until possibly Mother's Day or mid-May.
And I realize that it's a difficult time,
I realize that we're all programmed,
and I realize that a lot of us have these
expectations where, "I'm paying a membership fee,
"I should get free shipping, I've never paid
"for shipping there before, I deserve free shipping."
It's a different world right now,
and I feel the same way you do.
And I understand where you're coming from
on that Amazon Prime membership issue.
I'm gonna let you guys answer the questions to each other,
I'm gonna let you guys have that conversation
in discourse, in the comments section.
Should you cancel?
I don't know, who here uses Prime Video?
I happen to like Prime Video as an alternative to Netflix,
but some people, Prime Video is an afterthought
and you're heavily embedded in other platforms.
So, let me know,
I'm gonna let you guys answer that question today,
but more importantly, a reminder that as we navigate
through these very difficult times,
paying a little bit for shipping
will get your products a lot faster.
That also means as far as a store is concerned,
that they're boxing up your product,
they're taking money for that postage
that they are going to prioritize
for your order in many cases because no one really wants
to lose the amount of money people are losing right now
on the retail side of things.
So, there you are, thank you for listening,
hope you guys stay safe and healthy.
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