{"id":4,"date":"2012-12-03T02:54:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T07:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=4"},"modified":"2019-07-26T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T23:46:23","slug":"impetus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=4","title":{"rendered":"AmazonSupply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>[Reposted from a May 2nd 2012 post from my old blog. \u00a0I plan to do a formal review in the future!]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2012\/04\/24\/build-your-next-robot-with-amazon-supply\/\">heard about a new site<\/a>\u00a0Amazon was launching called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amazonsupply.com\/\">AmazonSupply<\/a>. \u00a0Having just gotten an Amazon Prime membership, I jumped at the chance to see if it carried over to the new site.\u00a0<em>(It does! Gift card balances don\u2019t though.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Normally, I buy my raw materials and fasteners from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcmaster.com\/\">McMaster-Carr<\/a>, but the one downside is that I know I\u2019m always facing a $10~30 shipping fee and I won\u2019t even know what it is until days later when they actually bill me! \u00a0Because of that, I don\u2019t order from them unless I have a comfortable surplus of cash. \u00a0It also means I try to consolidate my orders, to make the shipping worth it.<\/p>\n<p>AmazonSupply doesn\u2019t beat McMaster\u2019s prices on most things, and they have nowhere near the selection\u2026<strong>however<\/strong>, the items that\u00a0<em>are<\/em>\u00a0cheaper, I can afford to pick and choose, because my Amazon Prime membership gives me free 2-day shipping, and $3.99\/item overnight! \u00a0It also means I can impulse buy materials, or grab things I need ASAP and have them in 1-2 days, guaranteed. \u00a0This is evidenced by the fact that in the week since I heard about the site, I\u2019ve made 4 orders.\u00a0<em>(Mostly for stainless steel round stock.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, while they don\u2019t replace McMaster\u2013 not by a long shot \u2013they\u2019re definitely on my list of regular suppliers now!<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2013Update!\u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You <em>can<\/em> use Amazon.com giftcard balances on AmazonSupply, but there\u2019s a catch; you have to find the item on AmazonSupply and then paste the ASIN into the Amazon.com searchbar, and you\u2019ll be able to buy it through Amazon.com and use your giftcard balance. \u00a0How do accounts and Amazon Prime carry over, but not giftcard balances?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driving force of innovation, creativity, and my desire to MAKE COOL THINGS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,17],"wf_post_folders":[78],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts","tag-resources","tag-supplier"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6NlLW-impetus","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}