In message , at 08:26:31 on Mon, 3 Oct
2016, Neil Williams remarked:

The things that I looked for didn't "qualify"

I do use Prime but the main "use case" I have for non Prime suppliers
is that they will post small, low value things on their own. Amazon
won't, they will only post them with a minimum £20 order.

Such people are only competing in a small range of products (and I still
worry if they have a sustainable business); not in a general sense
"competing with Amazon".
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Roland Perry

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 17:15:03 +0100
wrote:
suggest that even there a polarization of roles has taken place . It
is not thought wise nowadays to send a soft skinned vehicle like a
production Land rover into even a minor skirmish when the opposition
is likely to be firing rounds from a weapon that modern sights

It wasn't thought wise 25 years ago in the first Iraq war. The yanks were
trundling around in start of the art armoured Humvies, our lads had 1950s tech
farmers cars. Sadly the MoD either didn't understand or didn't give a ****.
Probably both.

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Spud

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:50:02 +0100
Neil Williams wrote:
On 2016-09-30 16:15:03 +0000, said:
Such vehicles then become too expensive to be used as general run
arounds so something like one of the 4x4 crewcab pickups may be used
for that,after all they work for many of the various forces fighting
in conflict zones around the world.

Much as we all wish it wasn't, the biggest advert possible for the
Toyota Hilux is its use by terrorist groups - if they can keep them
going in the conditions they are using them in permanent war zones, it
isn't going to break down on your farm. And a pickup, with the part

Is it their reliability or is it because they're all thats available in
that part of the world? If they had access to Land Cruisers or Ford F150s
perhaps they'd use those instead. Who knows...

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Spud

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 07:18:36PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
On 2016-10-02 17:43:46 +0000, Roland Perry said:
Prime is faster, there's also their free postage offering.
Yes, but if you don't order often the membership fee is fairly hefty.

Even if you do order often (and I do) I find it's rare that I need
something so urgently as to not be able to wait a few days for free
delivery, but also not so urgently that I'll wait for Prime delivery
next day instead of going to a shop.

If you just order stuff to be delivered I don't see the point of Prime.
I only see value in it if you want the video on demand service.

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David Cantrell | semi-evolved ape-thing

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 19:18:36 on Sun, 2 Oct
2016, Neil Williams remarked:
What? Less postage than Amazon, who will have negotiated the very best
discounts.

Amazon charge quite a lot for postage for non-Prime purchases. No doubt
this is very profitable for them.

Not always. The last thing we bought, would have been zero postage even
without Prime, for the slowest delivery option.

Prime is faster, there's also their free postage offering.

Yes, but if you don't order often the membership fee is fairly hefty.

The membership fee is worth it for the streaming TV/movie service.

not if you already have more TV that you can watch without a streaming
service

tim

"Roland Perry" wrote in message
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In message , at 19:26:21 on Sun, 2 Oct 2016,
tim... remarked:
It's not a sustainable business to sell things cheaper than Amazon,
while also paying them to use the platform.

It is if you charge people for postage

What? Less postage than Amazon, who will have negotiated the very best
discounts.

IME (not necessarily with Amazon) postage is charged in fixed chunks with
say 6.95 as the smallest chunk,

That's simply not the case. eBay in particular encourages traders to ship
with zero postage charges. Lots of stuff "fulfilled by Amazon" has a zero
postage charge for the slowest service.

Not the stuff I bought

can't explain why, (I am not a frequent customer)

it's just how it was

tim

In message , at 13:08:13 on Mon, 3 Oct 2016,
tim... remarked:
Prime is faster, there's also their free postage offering.

Yes, but if you don't order often the membership fee is fairly hefty.

The membership fee is worth it for the streaming TV/movie service.

not if you already have more TV that you can watch without a streaming
service

It's not the hours of programming available, but the quality.
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Roland Perry

In message , at 12:44:19
on Mon, 3 Oct 2016, David Cantrell remarked:

If you just order stuff to be delivered I don't see the point of Prime.

Isn't it like buying your groceries online? Rather than go to a shop,
you decide what you need and then have it delivered the next day.
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Roland Perry

In message , at 13:09:23 on Mon, 3 Oct 2016,
tim... remarked:
IME (not necessarily with Amazon) postage is charged in fixed chunks
with say 6.95 as the smallest chunk,

That's simply not the case. eBay in particular encourages traders to
ship with zero postage charges. Lots of stuff "fulfilled by Amazon"
has a zero postage charge for the slowest service.

Not the stuff I bought

can't explain why, (I am not a frequent customer)

it's just how it was

YMMV, as it apparently always does.
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Roland Perry

On 2016-10-03 11:44:19 +0000, David Cantrell said:

Even if you do order often (and I do) I find it's rare that I need
something so urgently as to not be able to wait a few days for free
delivery, but also not so urgently that I'll wait for Prime delivery
next day instead of going to a shop.

I mostly work from home, which makes all the difference as I don't need
to "wait in" for anything, I'm there anyway. Whereas going to a shop
takes maybe an hour out of my day.

Neil
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