exactly what it feels like when airlines list "board first" as a perk for paying twice as much

None of those dates have the year on them.

Mildly amusing. I ship UPS all the time at work, and always check all the options for the best balance of speed and cost. The number of times the cheapest option is estimated to arrive before a more expensive choice cracks me up. Not always, but way more than I'd expect.

The 2 day air is only $15 more, I think you should go for it

I think that this is just a shipping cost function that Shopify provides to shops. I don't think that the seller added these options. Its just showing different options that they have access to in their system. No human has looked at these options and decided that they make sense. The store probably doesn't even know.

Having worked in the shipping industry the “Promise” branding everywhere is hilarious to me. Even “guaranteed” shipping doesn’t mean shit — the industry will do nothing but lead you on until the final moment when you’re truly just fucked.

It was probably vibe coded.

This is like when I withdraw money from PayPal, and it's like... idk the exact wording or cost, but along the lines of

Please choose a withdrawal option.

🔘 Option 1
Usually instant.
No fee

⚪ Option 2
Takes up to a few hours.
2% processing fee

Fucking hate all of this. With payments online getting easier I’m finding it more convenient to order from small websites again and stop using Amazon. But when it comes to shipping, things are really not getting any faster or easier. While Amazon is always a day behind their promises, they are usually much faster than anyone else.

Let's enjoy the last few days of free delivery.

There's a shop I occasionally order from and it has three options.

• within three hours, free
• standard shipping, 3-7 days, $15
• express post, next day, $26

No idea why same day is free when they're basically sending it in an uber vs the post. It's handy though

Overnight shipping is expensive

They're fuckken sending an ambulance

Remove the first free line, and it is the story of Canadians trying to buy something from the US... plus $300 fee you receive 3 weeks later.

Isn't this rather c/softwaregore?

Since this is in the mildly infuriating community, you view this as infuriating, but I think this is preying on the psychology of the average person who doesn't think about things as much.

They just breeze by this and don't look closely, but they get the vague impression that the store is saving them a bunch of money, so they'll be more likely to continue shopping there.

If you need it by Oct 28, you really only have one option. (In that you must choose between three options.)

eBay's shipping options often look like this for US to Canada items. A book will be $60 shipping but a larger heavier item is $25.

Does "Promise" mean that it's guaranteed to arrive on that day, or is it just a dumb name for a shipping company?

Silly yes, but I've had to do this at my job before to get the "guaranteed" delivery by X date. Does it work? Sometimes

Really bothered that 3d and 2d arrive on the same damn day!

I know exactly what to say about it: "Standard, please!"

Its not that the merchant is offering these prices to you. They're using another service to get shipping quotes on demand and display them to you transparently. Why they're so high, I can not explain, but it may have to do with global fuel supply and an all time high demand for shipping services.

I like to imagine the buyer lives next door to the warehouse, so no matter how they send it - on the back on a tortoise, or fired out of a railgun - it'll arrive same day.