Amazon ditches Free Delivery for all orders under £10

Not cool, Amazon. Not cool at all.

That said, it's unlikely to affect me much. I generally use marketplace sellers, so wind up paying postage anyway.
 
HdE said:
Not cool, Amazon. Not cool at all.

That said, it's unlikely to affect me much. I generally use marketplace sellers, so wind up paying postage anyway.
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Marketplace sellers seem to price their items factoring in the postage in any event and usually come in under Amazon's price.

So either Amazon is going to be even more expensive with the added P&P or they'll drop prices a bit and there will be little change.
 
Bet they are trying to get more people to use their Prime shipping option (at the end of the message they offer the option of a free 30 day trial of it and everytime I order direct from them there is always a page offering it as well).
 
mangaman74 said:
Bet they are trying to get more people to use their Prime shipping option (at the end of the message they offer the option of a free 30 day trial of it and everytime I order direct from them there is always a page offering it as well).
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What are you trying to suggest Amazon are sneaky hoping people sign up for a free trial of Prime, but forget to cancel at the end of the 30 days (hence being charged £49) and hope the customer is foolish enough to make use of the prime service after paying for it so they can't get a refund?

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I can remember when Amazon's free shipping only came in when you spent £25 (before dropping to £15 and getting rid of). They are playing on the people who buy a single CD/DVD at a time, knowing that they don't really have any competition so they think they could get away with it.
 
This slightly annoyed me, coming from someone who only really orders one volume of manga per month. If I was following two or more series, it would of been fine as it would then total more than £10.

With postage some of the issues I had pre-ordered were even more expensive than Waterstones, so I switched to them - which was good as I realised they do a points reward scheme.
 
Kite said:
mangaman74 said:
Bet they are trying to get more people to use their Prime shipping option (at the end of the message they offer the option of a free 30 day trial of it and everytime I order direct from them there is always a page offering it as well).
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What are you trying to suggest Amazon are sneaky hoping people sign up for a free trial of Prime, but forget to cancel at the end of the 30 days (hence being charged £49) and hope the customer is foolish enough to make use of the prime service after paying for it so they can't get a refund?

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I can remember when Amazon's free shipping only came in when you spent £25 (before dropping to £15 and getting rid of). They are playing on the people who buy a single CD/DVD at a time, knowing that they don't really have any competition so they think they could get away with it.
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I do think amazon are being sneaky with this. A few days before the original post I completed a survey on Nectar Canvass about shopping habits which turned out to be mainly about amazon. One of the questions asked if I knew about amazon prime and whether I used it (I answered that I knew of it but never use it). Another question asked how many orders I placed per year up to 2006. There was also a question asking for dates and amounts for orders placed in 2012. It seems like too much of a coincindence for the survey and the post about the shipping changes to happen within a few days.
 
Now that I think on it this isn't that big a deal. It was always much higher for free delivery and it's quite surprising it ever got to the stage where everything could be free. It just means you can't order single books, you have to order two, not that hard if you read a moderate amount. Most other items cost more than the £10 anyway so are unaffected.
 
GolGotha said:
This slightly annoyed me, coming from someone who only really orders one volume of manga per month. If I was following two or more series, it would of been fine as it would then total more than £10.

With postage some of the issues I had pre-ordered were even more expensive than Waterstones, so I switched to them - which was good as I realised they do a points reward scheme.
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http://www.bookdepository.co.uk is another good alternative to Amazon for manga, and gives free delivery on everything. Releases are generally slightly cheaper, plus they tend to come out a week or two before the release date that Amazon lists.
 
VoxPhantom said:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk is another good alternative to Amazon for manga, and gives free delivery on everything. Releases are generally slightly cheaper, plus they tend to come out a week or two before the release date that Amazon lists.
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Amazon is their parent company, here's to hoping they won't be changing their delivery costs as well anytime soon.
 
mangaman74 said:
Kite said:
mangaman74 said:
Bet they are trying to get more people to use their Prime shipping option (at the end of the message they offer the option of a free 30 day trial of it and everytime I order direct from them there is always a page offering it as well).
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What are you trying to suggest Amazon are sneaky hoping people sign up for a free trial of Prime, but forget to cancel at the end of the 30 days (hence being charged £49) and hope the customer is foolish enough to make use of the prime service after paying for it so they can't get a refund?

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I can remember when Amazon's free shipping only came in when you spent £25 (before dropping to £15 and getting rid of). They are playing on the people who buy a single CD/DVD at a time, knowing that they don't really have any competition so they think they could get away with it.
Click to expand...

I do think amazon are being sneaky with this. A few days before the original post I completed a survey on Nectar Canvass about shopping habits which turned out to be mainly about amazon. One of the questions asked if I knew about amazon prime and whether I used it (I answered that I knew of it but never use it). Another question asked how many orders I placed per year up to 2006. There was also a question asking for dates and amounts for orders placed in 2012. It seems like too much of a coincindence for the survey and the post about the shipping changes to happen within a few days.
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I think I had a similar survey from Opinionworld, I gave up as the reward offered (50p) was rubbish compared to having to input the details of my orders in 2013

Maybe it's their way to getting back at the students using Amazon's 5% discount ;)
 
robot monkey said:
Same again. If you're going to order more than a small number of things from Amazon a year you should consider using Prime.
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I order more than a few items per year from Amazon but I don't want Prime as I prefer to pay less and wait rather pay more to get my orders quicker.
 
I've got Prime free till later in the month but since the stupid DPT drivers can't find my house, I'll be cancelling it soon.
 
It seems as I look at it that most people tend to go for the secondary retailers anyway.. hehe. When you look to many of Amazon's prices, it seems that there are a surprisingly large number of items in all categories that have cheaper prices, even with their P&P added on.
 
I've recently discovered Wordery. I bought a couple of books from them via Amazon Marketplace and they were posted either the same or next day (compared to anything between 2-5 days from TBD). Prices are similar to Amazon and TBD, and they offer free postage with no minimum order value. They're also doing 10% off in January, something I wish I'd known before buying those books from their Amazon store. Oh wellz.

How these places make any money with RM continually jacking up their prices is a mystery, but I'm happy to roll with it.
 
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