How often do the little non-specific coupons show up? I see lots of discounts on specific items, but I need a generic "here's a bit off anything" one, like the $3 codes, and I'm getting the feeling they're rare. Anyone keep track of that? Thanks!

Dang, I was afraid it was something like that. Oh well, thanks!

eBay is generally moving away from big discounts offered to everyone. They've trained too many customers like yourself to wait on a discount to appear and want to wean people off that behavior.

Now that everything on eBay is taxed for virtually the entire United States, it's a less attractive shopping platform for new goods.

Ironically, I'm finding more & more frequently that shipping from the UK is at times cheaper than buying in the USA & paying sales tax. Sad.

Completely agree. The online shopping experience has taken a severe hit over the past two years for Americans as new taxes come online and Amazon doesn't worry anymore about competitors.

Maybe Amazon wasn't so much worried about competition, as it was knowing that their foreign infiltration...would be propped-up by an increase in American buyers.

The sad thing is that in Music & Movie Discs, Amazon largely has no competition in the USA other than maybe Walmart & ebay. All the large indies also sell on ebay & Amazon.

When so many people on multiple forums have pretty much the same sequence -- Well, Amazons packaging sucks and half my movies arrive damaged, they can't deliver anything on time anymore, and their prices aren't as good as other sites and they won't adjust a price after releasese day even for a disc that haven't even shipped yet, their Customer Service has plummeted over the last few years and the reps and constantly beyond ruder
but I's still going to preorder everything from them because I pay for Prime. When they quit trying, I quit buying from them -- too many other retailers who are trying to do a good job and provide better service, prices, price protection, packaging, and less attitude.

Why should they worry about the 20 other sites that are doing a better job.
I averaged over 150 Discs annually from Amazon 2010-2012, since then I haven't bought 100 total in the last 6 years and half of those are from 3rd party.

I think I totaled my purchases a year or so ago and since 2014, Amazon.com ranks 24th on my Disc Purcahse retialer. I've bought more discs at Dollar Tree than Amazon.
When Amazon

And yet practically any deal that is any good on Amazon is just a price match to someone else. I don't have Prime, and besides a free/cheap trial here-and-there never will, so whenever a movie has a good price on Amazon, the first thing I do is figure out who they are price matching and order from them.

I agree buddy. Jeff Bezos and Amazon are destroying the sole proprietor. He has swooped in and monopolized everything. Now we have tons of zombie malls across our nation with no end in sight. The only time that I will ever buy from Amazon is if someone gave me a GC and even then I feel sick to my stomach.

It's a little late for "destroying". It's "destroyed". Though they've had lots of help, including from indies who wanted to destroy the other indies & from other corps.

Retail was always going to die out once the generation that grew up on the Net came of age, but Amazon clearly accelerated the process. The shift in demographics has also affected retail - younger Millennials just aren't big consumers like prior generations. There's growing evidence they just don't like shopping as much.

Text EXTRA To 70799 to get 3 dollars of a 3.01 dollar purchase. You get on their Text advertising list as well which you can unsubscribe later. Coupon good until 11/1.

Tempting but I already get too many spam calls and even if you do unsubscribe they just stop sending you stuff and would prob sell you number as a good one to other companies...

Reminder that the eBay text coupon expires today in case you haven't used it yet.