Stop Explaining Delivery in Amazon AU Titles

Murdrum on 08/04/2021 - 23:22

Example post: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/615880

I would like to see the delivery part of these deal titles reduced to "+ Delivery" or removed entirely. Possibly enforce including how to qualify for free delivery in the deal description.

It currently takes up a lot of title space. In the example, delivery uses half of the entire deal title.

How @ Amazon AU delivery works I hope is well known for most users and certainly obvious for Amazon Prime users.

Amazon Prime users should be able to assume that because the deal is @Amazon AU they will not have to pay any more for delivery.

Non prime users can figure out delivery easily enough in the deal description or by opening the Amazon listing.

Disclosure: I am a Prime user so probably have a biased view.

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  • deme on 08/04/2021 - 23:24
    +3

    No

  • MS Paint on 08/04/2021 - 23:40
    +13

    YES

  • SF3 on 08/04/2021 - 23:42
    +1

    I think it’s important to display delivery.

    Perhaps a new field to separate delivery information and have it show as a subscript text underneath the deal title.

  • bweiss on 09/04/2021 - 00:21
    +3

    It'd be nice if it just showed the full price delivery.
    The whole 'free delivery for $39+' isn't the ideal OzBargain-way… we're trying to buy things for cents… ain't no-one blowing $39+ on stuff just to get delivery.
    People that are blowing $39+ with Amazon likely have Prime and now how it works.

    • Certified Angus on 09/04/2021 - 08:02

      I agree, but also don't think we're looking far enough for solutions. This is a data problem, and the limitations of titles are becoming apparent.

      Instead of a title, a deal poster should fill in relevant fields and the system can present a title, with users able to customise their experience.

      • Product (linked to the existing product database)
      • Price (linked to standard conversion tool for foreign)
      • Former price/next cheapest
      • Store
      • Standard delivery fee
      • Free delivery threshold
      • Tags (suggested from item and store)
      • (Anything else I've missed from title guidelines)

      A lot of this data could be prefilled based on prior deals (e.g. when you put in Amazon the $39 free delivery threshold would autofill, when you put in the product name tags would be suggested)

      Additional items that show if relevant e.g.
      - if Amazon, is this eligible for free Prime delivery
      - if Costco, is there a membership requirement
      - if gaming tag, which systems are included

      From this you could search by any field or combo, and avoid cluttering titles with [PS4/XBOX/PC] and ($0 with Prime/ $39 Spend) and ($xxAUD using MasterCard blah blah)

      You could have a Camelx3 view of former deal prices from all sellers rather than just a list.

      You could search by percentage or dollar difference between price and next cheapest, percentage or dollar difference between price and last deal price.

      You could collapse or expand multi item deals e.g.supermaket specials. Put each item in this form rather than formatting your own table, the system can present it on a table. The input form would need to allow multi item entry to reduce overhead.

      PS mods, I'm an out of work Data Analyst, call me

      • Murdrum on 09/04/2021 - 18:10

        Cool idea!

        It's pretty far past the scope of the original topic though…

  • ESEMCE on 09/04/2021 - 07:47

    Prime doesn't apply to everything on Amazon, so users can't

    assume that because the deal is @Amazon AU they will not have to pay any more for delivery.

    Having said that, I kinda agree.

    • Murdrum on 09/04/2021 - 17:33

      I thought that third party sellers don't count as "@ Amazon AU". I might be wrong.

  • Iluvfreebies on 09/04/2021 - 17:16

    Some stores get special treatment on Ozbargain.

  • Mr BoMBAStiG on 09/04/2021 - 17:25

    I tried suggesting this last year: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/9446174/redir

  • Murdrum on 09/04/2021 - 18:18

    Wow I didn't expect any sort of decent discussion! This if great. Especially the impromptu poll!

    Thanks everyone for adding your +/- opinions and remarks.

  • jetblack on 10/04/2021 - 09:03

    You could reduce it to say '(+delivery/Prime)' if Prime is applicable… But also, this is really a total non-issue

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