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Originally Posted by gal_amy
My prime is expiring next month.
Anything prime is still free shipping if it goes over $35?
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Not sure what you are asking here. If you have PRIME here in the US anything that is not an add-on ships free 2-day with Prime no matter what the order total. There is no minimum total for free shipping to Prime members.
Now there is the free shipping for non-prime members. They have to hit a minimum order total for the free shipping to apply.
I don't like this price increase either, especially when combined with the sales tax detail but I still save so much time shopping with Amazon it's well worth it, to me. It also has not helped that Amazon is no longer even trying to be competitive on pricing items sold by Amazon. It seems they have been bumping prices slowly to cover shipping costs.
If anything we Prime members should be cranky over the fact non-members continue to receive free shipping. Perhaps raising that minimum order for free shipping will help a bit but the markup on that added $10 can't be more than a couple bucks so I don't see how it actually helps anything. Only upping prices on Prime eligible items will cover shipping increases.
I wanted to clear that up as there is a bit of mis-information being passed around, as usual one the web by the chicken-littles. I don't know why Prime shipping confuses people so much, it's not "rocket surgery" after all but Amazon has found a way to confuse people it seems.
I actually think Amazon is at a crossroads with their retail sales, at least here in the US. Unless they do something like buy UPS or some other parcel delivery service...and don't think the can't or won't. I suspected DHL had enough infrastructure but maybe not. Despite the overhead of doing so I do think Amazon has to be pondering their own parcel delivery company. It's a service the could offer to ALL Amazon sellers no matter their location. Now there would be a huge advantage over the competition which nobody could match. It sure could shake things up as if it was their own company UPS would take a HUGE hit on the balance sheets almost overnight. Heck it might even make UPS try and provide friendly and reasonable service...