It’s a website that lets you sort amazon by price per ounce/pound/count

https://bangyourbuck.com/

Some examples are:

Cheapest rice per pound https://bangyourbuck.com/search/rice/Lb/US/grid

Cheapest batteries by count: https://bangyourbuck.com/search/aa batteries/Count/US/grid

Hard drives by terabyte: https://bangyourbuck.com/search/hard drive/Terabyte/US/grid

Been using it for months, and I can’t stand using Amazon without it now.

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The creator is smart, this is a great and slick service.

They may not be wise.

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As a furry, this is blatant false advertising. I will be writing a sternly-worded letter to my representatives about this! #weDemandBucks 😤

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I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought about that twice.

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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 ultra strong/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.

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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!”

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I once went on a deep dive trying to figure out whether napkins or paper towels were cheaper I probably still have the spreadsheets.

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I did the same thing with Kleenex vs toilet paper. TP won.

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Don’t leave us hanging! What is it?

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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.

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Should be length though.

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True. Area then. And ply number is a qualifier not a quantifier. People who want two ply are not going to switch to one or three just because of price.and vice versa.

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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.

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Maybe don’t kill our planet for your petty bullshit. Consumerism is bad enough already.

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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!

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But 50% of all items I check have incorrect or nonexistant unit price listed

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Yeah some products don’t work because the sellers don’t fill out the information properly.

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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

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