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Valiant effort, but the top minds of the world, whether human or machine, are no match for Charmin's obfuscation techniques. https://bangyourbuck.com/search/charmin%20ultra%20strong/Count/US/table
Looks okay until you realize that the "count" field refers to different things across different listings. Some count rolls, some count sheets, some count packages.
Comparing prices of toilet paper and papers towels is 100x harder than it needs to be.
Curses!
Garbage in, garbage out I suppose!
Charmin really is the king of "1 sheet equals 3, and 1 roll is 2, but our sheets are half the size! So really this roll is 12 rolls!"
I once went on a deep dive trying to figure out whether napkins or paper towels were cheaper I probably still have the spreadsheets.
Don't leave us hanging! What is it?
For the comparison I was doing (it can be hard to compare the two products,) I found paper towels were almost always cheaper (per unit area.)
But that was pre-pandemic, so prices are probably way different by now.
Should be length though.
I want to find the cheapest item by weight with free shipping, really stick it to the man.
so far 17¢/lb for sand is the best I've found.
Maybe don't kill our planet for your petty bullshit. Consumerism is bad enough already.
Ahh looks like it might be the sellers put in the wrong information. Which sucks, cause I was like... surely I can do something fun with that much sand!
But 50% of all items I check have incorrect or nonexistant unit price listed
Yeah some products don't work because the sellers don't fill out the information properly.
If you buy the cheapest rice, the cheapest batteries, or the cheapest hard drive, off Amazon, of all fuckin places, you're going to have a bad time
Getting the best value is frequently an economic mistake for a buyer because it does not take into account the present vs future value of money. Not to mention how it is sure to increase your waste/shrink factor and so can eat up its own savings.
Don't deliberately overconsume just to feel like a savvy buyer. Buy a reasonable amount for your own needs and no more. I get that we all like Costco, but the business model really isn't that good for typical consumers.
That's a fine point!
I usually only buy dry rice/beans and the like bulk, which I eat the same amount of every week pretty much regardless. But still only ever buy like a month or so worth at a time.
Getting bulk snacks though from costco... that is a bad move.
You can get cheaper rice than that in stores if you buy bulk at an Indian or Chinese grocer.
I do genuinely enjoy buying enough rice to last a year. Also bought a great cheap rice cooker at my local Chinese grocer. Idiot proof and almost certainly saves electricity.
I think I once worked out that the rice based meal I'd just eaten had cost less than a euro to make.
I'd love to buy in bulk like that, but I don't have the freezer space to treat the rice beforehand, so I usually don't buy more than 25 (just over 10 kilo) pounds at a time
Why would you need a freezer to treat rice?
To kill any critters that might be along for the ride and wanna eat my bulk grain.
Well this should help make it obvious! Cause you can see "cheapest by pound is x, the price per pound of this bulk bag is y."
Compared to having to scroll around.
You should know that you can shop other places, leaving Amazon to be shitty without your money in their coffers.
Exactly. There is so much stuff online and off and they depend on folks not giving in to convenience. The way amazon treats both their workers and their sellers is horrendous. I make it a point of shopping elsewhere and only in extreme circumstances buy there.
If it doesn't work to factor in all the "click this box to save X amount" buttons, then it's a bit useless.
I'm pretty sure amazon started implementing that shit in order to ruin price tracking sites like camelcamelcamel.
This would be really nice if it showed other vendors besides Amazon.
Search for a USB flash drive to find some really sketchy scam attempts. Looks like you’re getting a gazillion gigabytes for a few dollars, but in reality you’ll get a lesson in what e-waste means. Scroll down to find the realistic products with realistic prices.
Thanks but i'd rather not bang my buck.
I feel like BangBucks.com had a bit more potential for a name.
Pretty sure that's a gay deer porn site
ooh, this needs to be a Firefox extension!
edit: I take that back, no, it should stay just the way it is. It works great!
Wow thanks that is awesome, gotta remember that site. For rice I already found the 50lbs pack that also beats my local discount grocer (which is rare).
What pisses me off that amazon has made it's "sort by cheapest" completely unusable. You find 100 pages of the exact same ultra-trashy product or something related or a replacement part or something.
Sweet! Thanks for the reco!