Idea for next Black Friday

[ziggo99]

Maybe it's been discussed before but with being sick I can't recall that well.

Everyone loves the cyber buster deals. But do we love paying shipping every four hours? I would say not (unless you place an order over the amount, but can we all place $50, $95, $125 orders all the time??). But what about a wait to ship idea? You order all week long, and when it's all over your orders are combined and shipped OR if you don't hit the shipping threshold you can either cancel or add items to get to the threshold. You save on shipping by not having three different $70 orders and AutoGeek can make more money of us, right? I know that there were some items that I thought about, but I didn't want to buy if that was the only thing that I'd get, since shipping would eat up the savings.

I don't think the logistics nightmare would be as bad as you may think. It's like having a tab at the bar and you pay at the end. Once the week is over, they just pull up your name, compile all the orders, charge and ship. The fillers aren't overworked, since they have to fill the orders at one time or another. And if you don't hit the shipping mark, then you can decide then.

There has to be a major flaw I'm not seeing, so what does everyone think?

 

[Dei3Nascar8]

This is a great idea and it is employed by a cigar website that I purchase items through. They have the option listed when you sign up to ship items as they are purchased or to hold all items and mail them on Thursday. I'd love to / and would purchase more often but the shipping charges ($14 on an order today) have kept me purchasing from Amazon. I know that AG is doing the price match now but it's just a hassle to have to go through calling. I would prefer to make the purchase online.

Good idea hope that something like this could be established. I would happily purchase and pay for orders as they were bought Friday-Sunday and even pay for shipping if it were either reduced at the end of the sale or given back on a gift card...

 

[Speed-Dude]

This is actually a really good idea. I feel if AG can execute it well into their order system it could certainly have potential to increase revenue, especially during these rapid holiday sales. It might even be easier for AG as it could mean less number of shipments during those times.

 

[octane]

you just need to say in the comments "hold order as more orders will be combined with this one" then you give them a call to say combine them and remove the hold.

 

[explorerlyon]

I also suggested this in another thread. In fairness to AG with their black friday or cyper sales, I think you should be required to checkout and PAY for your items. Then place the order on hold. It would be unfair to stock into your cart deals that you later change your mind on during the "hold" period.

I have use other shopping sites that do this. You place your oder. At checkout, you select to ship now or hold for 7 days. During the next 7 days, you can order as many additional items as you want for $1 additional shipping.

 

[ziggo99]

you just need to say in the comments "hold order as more orders will be combined with this one" then you give them a call to say combine them and remove the hold.

Wait....that actually works?!?!?

 

[SubieMonte]

Agreed. I think across the whole cyber deal timeframe I wanted around 75$ in product but the shipping deal killed it. My suggestion is to have all the previous cyber deals with inventory remaining in the last four hour block. This way we can pick up the smaller priced items at one time and combine the shipping.

 

[SubieMonte]

you just need to say in the comments "hold order as more orders will be combined with this one" then you give them a call to say combine them and remove the hold.

That was not explained until later in the sales unfortunately.

 

[octane]

Wait....that actually works?!?!?

yeah, that works... I had a couple of items that looked fine in my cart, ( I could actually go to paypal and they all showed up still) but when I decided to bite the bullet some dissapered, so I called to have them added back, then after I used the put on hold method, and first thing tuesday morning, I had the order combined... the email bill was a bit messed up, and hard to understand, but hopefully I will get everything I was supposed to .... international shipping is longgg!

 

[TechDiver]

Everyone loves the cyber buster deals. But do we love paying shipping every four hours? I would say not (unless you place an order over the amount, but can we all place $50, $95, $125 orders all the time??). But what about a wait to ship idea? You order all week long, and when it's all over your orders are combined and shipped OR if you don't hit the shipping threshold you can either cancel or add items to get to the threshold. You save on shipping by not having three different $70 orders and AutoGeek can make more money of us, right? I know that there were some items that I thought about, but I didn't want to buy if that was the only thing that I'd get, since shipping would eat up the savings.

:iagree: