What's the catch with the cheap listings on Amazon?

While I haven’t been burned by a purchase from Amazon’s onw stock, they do costly affiliate selling for tons of other Internet and brick-and-mortar retailers now. Lots of their items are actually considerably more costly than if purchased directly from the retailer’s site. Amazon seems to be doing their best to take over all ecommerce, and I won’t be helping them.

I have purchased many items from amazon, and was very satisfied with them. I have never had to pay for shipping costs, but it might take a little longer to receive it. If you buy from someone else who sells on amazon, you will be paying the shipping. I bought the 3rd season of Dr. Quinn, a printer, headphones, a microphone, a couple of books on dvd, a water filter and a few other things. I never had a bad experience with Amazon. When you do not buy merchandise sold by amazon, usually there is no warrenty. I always buy stuff from amazon and never the other company’s that they sell for..good luck..

There is no catch! The majority of my internt purchases are form Amazon: textbooks, sex toys, car parts, Cd’s.. everything!!
Make sure you read the reviews from sellers (unless it’s directly from Amazon).
Also, for the Free Super Saver Shipping discount, your item must qualify.

I’ve been buying from amazon for ages now without a problem. On saturday morning I got in the post a copy of the Kenneth Branagh biography by Mark White, in hardback which I paid…. honestly £0.01 for, and £2.45 postage, it wasn’t from amazon it was under their used and new listing for the product, so postage is payable. The copy I received though was immaculate and very well packaged. When buying from amazon themselves I use their free super saving postage and have never had a problem. Had to return an anti virus disc and their customer service was great. Recently bought the extended version dvd of Coyote Ugly, and the cd soundtrack for less than £5 :-) so, yes, bargains are there to be found.
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I sell things on Amazon sometimes, and didn’t know exactly how Amazon worked until I did so.
Basically, it’s people with business names. I came up with a business name, and list the books I want to sell..usually way cheaper than new. Some of the businesses sell everything around the same price, and the used can range from any price. It’s just regular people, or maybe even real small businesses making a little bit of money.
Just like with Ebay, I’d read the reviews.

I pretty much just buy books on Amazon. I’ve never had a problem. I’ve used their Super Saver Shipping, and have bought from other sellers on there with the 1 cent book deals, and have never had a problem.

The catch is, you pay shipping for each seller. If you are buying several different things, all from different sellers, you pay shipping for each transaction whereas if you were buying everything from Amazon itself or from a single seller the shipping would be combined into one fee. Depending on what you’re buying, it may be cheaper to go with a single seller (even though some of the items may be priced higher) because shipping fees add up pretty quickly.