The UX of the Dash Button is great, shopping for laundry detergent is boring, just one press and it's over. Managing your personal finances has zero to do with the dash button user experience.
Exactly. If you want the cheapest price on something, cut coupons and brave the crowds at the local Walmart. The dash button is about convenience. For people who have all the time in the world, then it makes sense to go out to the store whenever you discover you are out of something. For people who only have time on the weekends, it makes sense to make a shopping list and inventory the consumable products in your home and stock up as needed. But if you have other things that you want to do on the weekend, then anything that reduces the amount of time making a list and walking the aisles at the store is a big plus, and definitely worth the extra $1.50 to use the dash button.
It is worth the extra 1.50 per use? For something you can pick up when you go to the store already?
You would have to deliberately NOT buy something so you can use this.
1.50 across 10 goods is 15 bucks. Per trip that I do every other week. That is ~360 bucks. I end up with 2 'free' trips compared to what you pay. 360 bucks is about 1 day of work for me after taxes.
A dollar here a dollar there and it adds up fast. Faster than you think. You are paying to be lazy. Lazy in 'I am not going to think' lazy
So I assume you clip coupons, right? For $3 you can pick up the Sunday paper, peruse the advertisements, and work all morning so you can save (typically) $5-15. And of course you dig through the store leaflets to decide which store you go to based on where the sales are. That's good for another $5 or so. This only takes a little bit of time and over the course of the year will save hundreds of dollars.
There was a time in my life when I did that to save every little penny. Now I am in a totally different
Actually great UX for everyone else (Score:4, Insightful)
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Exactly. If you want the cheapest price on something, cut coupons and brave the crowds at the local Walmart. The dash button is about convenience. For people who have all the time in the world, then it makes sense to go out to the store whenever you discover you are out of something. For people who only have time on the weekends, it makes sense to make a shopping list and inventory the consumable products in your home and stock up as needed. But if you have other things that you want to do on the weekend, then anything that reduces the amount of time making a list and walking the aisles at the store is a big plus, and definitely worth the extra $1.50 to use the dash button.
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It is worth the extra 1.50 per use? For something you can pick up when you go to the store already?
You would have to deliberately NOT buy something so you can use this.
1.50 across 10 goods is 15 bucks. Per trip that I do every other week. That is ~360 bucks. I end up with 2 'free' trips compared to what you pay. 360 bucks is about 1 day of work for me after taxes.
A dollar here a dollar there and it adds up fast. Faster than you think. You are paying to be lazy. Lazy in 'I am not going to think' lazy
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So I assume you clip coupons, right? For $3 you can pick up the Sunday paper, peruse the advertisements, and work all morning so you can save (typically) $5-15. And of course you dig through the store leaflets to decide which store you go to based on where the sales are. That's good for another $5 or so. This only takes a little bit of time and over the course of the year will save hundreds of dollars.
There was a time in my life when I did that to save every little penny. Now I am in a totally different
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