As I purchase things not at Amazon, I am keeping a score sheet. Here is the list of the first four things I order regularly and historically just bought at amazon assuming it was cheaper. I've saved about $90 (incl. taxes and shipping) so far. I have ordered in slightly higher volume than I usually do. Shipping time is not notably slower than Amazon 2-day.
Including the order from Olive Young! DHL from Seoul or Tokyo is terrifyingly fast.
You can't really do "get it to me tomorrow", but...
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How much extra am I paying for books? Over the last six months I've purchased 15 books and paid about $45 more than I would have at Amazon.
Over that period, I've also picked up 8 or so audiobooks. I've switched to libro.fm (which purports to give a local bookstore of my choice a kickback) from audible. Credits are in general about $1.50 more per book than Audible. I buy about 1.5 audiobooks a month, so that will add up to about $15 more over the same time period.
Not terrible.
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