iFixit Pro free shipping
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I hope everybody is doing well
I have a question about the shipping for iFixit pro accounts, is there a way to get free shipping or some requirements ?
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Hi Mohanad,
Thanks for reaching out with your question! In the future, if you want to ask the iFixit Pro team a question directly, you're welcome to email them at pro@ifixit.com.
As to your question, @mayer and @soros are both correct. Many companies who offer free shipping are subsidizing the shipping costs with their other profits. We are happy to be able to do this with certain iFixit Pro orders. Currently, if your order is over $399 on a Pro account, you get free standard shipping. A Pro order over $999 gets free UPS Next Day Air (and also requires contacting us to trigger that).
I hope that helps! Feel free to reach out to the team with any more specific questions you have. Thanks!
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Do you have any suggestions on just how iFixit should engage this deceptive trade practice?
Free Lunch
A free lunch is a sales enticement that offers a meal at no cost in order to attract customers and increase revenues from other offerings. It was a tradition once common in saloons in many places in the United States, with the phrase appearing in U.S. literature from about 1870 to the 1920s. These establishments included a "free" lunch, varying from rudimentary to quite elaborate, with the purchase of at least one drink. These free lunches were typically worth far more than the price of a single drink.[1] The saloon-keeper relied on the expectation that most customers would buy more than one drink, and that the practice would build patronage for other times of day.
Free food or drink is sometimes supplied in contemporary times, often by gambling establishments such as casinos.
The saying "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch" refers to this custom, meaning that things which appear to be free are always paid for in some way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_lunch
You can read here on what the the Federal Trade Commission feels about Free Shipping under the heading"Unfair Trade Practices and the Federal Trade Commission":
https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/t...
You may see all these companies in China offering free shipping. Why?
Not so simple an answer: The Chinese government runs the shipping services. By offering free shipping they can drive any competitor out of business. Free shipping is an indirect attack on the manufacturing companies of the world in an attempt to monopolize manufacturing. It's undeclared war. Of course this is just my opinion, I could be wrong.
Does it work?
Since China joined WTO, U.S. has lost 60,000 factories
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/...
A giant wave of store closures is about to hit the US
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As always well said. Just hoping I some day get on your level. Good thing I got some good teachers
@theimedic not good teachers. The best teachers. They are "The Man."
@pccheese you're so right, lil bro. We are quite blessed
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