Looks like I'm spoiled for choice. Temu has exactly the same for 11.29. Not that I'd be purchasing from either place; it's just another example of Amazon's enshittification.
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Every dipshit with a freshly minted MBA thinks they're going to go and disrupt the appliance industry by putting it online and snatching it out from under all those antiquated local dealerships run by out of touch old men who can barely operate a computer. They think they're going to go from zero to nationwide tomorrow, and they're so smart because nobody's thought of it before.
It turns out that dealing with the final mile with appliances is killer, and extremely difficult logistically. That makes the entire operation much more expensive than anyone thinks at first glance. Not just in terms of raw dollars and cents paid to disinterested common carriers to move your product from A to B (who also won't install the stuff or even bring it inside your customer's house) but also in damaged and returned products and angry screaming customers who will be initiating credit card chargebacks all the time whenever anything goes wrong.
All of those little local dealerships have had decades to figure out how to move a refrigerator from their warehouse to your kitchen and how to remediate the situation if it all goes pear shaped on delivery day, and all of them only service their local territory for a reason. The further you stretch without some physical presence in where you're stretching to, the more impossible it becomes to control the logistics.
So yeah, that's probably in no small part why your fridge would have been so expensive. Amazon is among the latest figuring this out the hard way, and you can't just slap a refrigerator or a stove in a bubble mailer and dump it on somebody's front porch.
Local appliance dealers likely also have a dude who in a pinch can just carry most appliances where they need to go.
Tangentially, this reminds me of some advice I read on whole home water filters. Get this one or get that one. but get it from a local business who's been in your area for years and years. You will have a problem with it. You are going to need someone to call. And they say, just plan for that from the start.