{"id":4336,"date":"2022-10-07T13:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/?p=4336"},"modified":"2022-10-11T11:37:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:37:19","slug":"is-amazon-less-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/07\/is-amazon-less-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Amazon less expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apparently, not always and as the saying goes &#8220;It pays to shop around.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I\u2019m looking for something simple, a v-belt for the aquarobic air pump at the lake. You used to be able to just pop over to Canadian Tire and pick one up from an extensive collection, not any more, they don\u2019t have any!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/staging\/3703\/wp-content\/img_4527-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4527-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4527-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4527-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4527-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4527-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The V-belt in question<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swrltd.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">S.W.R. Industries<\/a> a nice Canadian company with good products. Where are your local distributors now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company sells on Amazon and direct from their website as well. I like to buy three at a time to have some backups on hand. Here is the breakdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-794e3cfa wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:22.22%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Description<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cost<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shipping<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:44.45%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amazon (SWR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$14.95, 3 for $44.85<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$6.95<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$2.37<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$3.31<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$52.99<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SWR Website Direct<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$4.46, 3 for 13.38<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$22.62<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1.80<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$0.00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$37.80<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Same product, same company, big difference. 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You used to be able to just pop over to Canadian Tire and pick one up from an extensive collection, not any more, they don\u2019t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[322,326,324,325,323],"class_list":["post-4336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grab-bag","tag-amazon","tag-comparison","tag-price","tag-prices","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_4527.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4346,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4336\/revisions\/4346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigdadoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}