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I wish I were offered $5 off a DVD box too!
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09-18-2018, 04:26 PM | #618 |
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Amazon UK have finally caught on to low-value item no-rush shipping credits. No-rush shipping is now only available on orders of £20 or over. Well, that's still 5% back as digital credits. Not too shabby.
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09-19-2018, 02:06 PM | #620 |
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09-19-2018, 02:29 PM | #621 | |
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Could be, as I did get 9ne a few days back 9n a larger order, but not on several items costing about £10 each, bought inividually.. Shame if true, I had Florence used to collecting them and spending on TV series in Amazon video. In my case they have been losing sales as I have been going to checkout, looking for the no rush option, not seeing it. Thinking ok be like that then, and dumping the order into a buy later pile. |
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09-19-2018, 02:49 PM | #622 |
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If they were losing money on the sales because of shipping costs and digital credits, they'd consist it a sale well lost (and it sounds like a sale postponed at that).
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09-20-2018, 01:28 AM | #623 | |
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"Certain No-Rush promotions require the Amazon Prime-eligible products in your basket to total £20 or more." |
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I don't spend 200+ on sold by Amazon items regularly (**** We are spending more than usual though, at the cats insistence we are prepping for a possible UK no deal brexit, and stockpiling his favourites in case there are shortages ) And burying the change notification in a line of the legalese page is not a good way to inform customers of the new £20 threshold. I will use other sellers more, and use Amazon less. Thier loss, as the cost to them of fulfilling a digital credit must be close to zero, - just the the marginal cost of generating another digital copy to sell and fulfill online i Last edited by stumped; 09-20-2018 at 08:17 AM. |
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A few pence in the pound, maybe.in cases where they are not the right holder anyway. Amazon produce a lot of original video.
PS for me,, the video option was the only attraction of digital credits. I get my music from Spotify and have no compulsion to want to own the MP3 files. . I can order most books from local library and I have enough of a reading backlog to wait for them to come around.. Credits stopped working in the amazon app store a long time ago.despite the emails claiming you could spend them there. And TBH I don't really need to buy the videos. It was a nice to have hedge against shows I might want to watch again someday disappearing from prime or from netflix The whole thing can go the way of Amazon coins (anyone remember those ) and not be really missed |
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I haven't had Prime in a long time and I don't know the minimum in the UK for free non-Prime shipping, but the change makes Prime virtually a lot more expensive for former heavy generators of digital credits. |
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09-20-2018, 09:20 AM | #628 |
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Indeed it does. I used to make my Prime subscription fee back in digital credits (which I then spent on ebooks, of course).
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09-20-2018, 09:28 AM | #629 | |
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It's arguably more lucrative now to buy everything on "guaranteed" next day delivery then complain about each missed delivery date. The standard compensation for anything arriving a day late used to be an extra free month of Prime, if you complained, but it has been a long time since i have had cause for complaint so I dunno if that still applies. I did clock up about 6 free months over the last few years though. The UK advertising Standards Authority has forced them to pull the " "guarantee" claim anyway now. they found it to be misleading. |
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