MSE News: Amazon shopper? It's upping the minimum spend needed for free delivery

Pincher

ScarletMarble wrote: »

If my parents decide to go for the £79 cost for Prime, I will use their account. As all of the larger items I order go to their address anyway - 10 mins from me.

It's a vision of purgatory.


If you get a Prime account, you are doomed to wait for parcels all day, not just for yourself, for everyone else as well.

Yolina

I can't be the only one who remembers that, when Amazon first started (and were selling only books), the threshold for free delivery was £25.

Given that I'm not a good consumer and also rarely prone to want-it-now-itis, I'm not really bothered :rotfl: It's just a case of adding things to basket as and when and hitting buy once the £20 is reached, even if that might take me a few months. I mostly buy ebooks from Amazon and not much else anyway.

kevroberts66

I'll use Play.com (Rakuten.co.uk) more now. as they still offer free delivery on most things

SimonSays

There really is an attitude of consumers, I want it for a penny and want it delivered free.

Delivery costs money! Either pay the £20 minimum or get prime

I for one will enjoy earlier prime dispatches because people won't be clogging up the system with free deliveries

[Deleted User]

I had been an amazon prime customer for two or three years. I didn't renew it this year after a debacle with Amazon 'maybe' letting someone have information from my file (and most unsatisfactorily blaming it on a phishing attack in spite of my efforts to say I know what phishing is, I know how to prevent its success, and no phishing attack took place).

So I now use Amazon a lot less. And its saving me a bundle. It was too easy to order, not pay for delivery. If I do order, I now look at all websites, including ebay and am finding that I can get goods cheaper elsewhere with free postage or even including postage. If I do occasionally order I used to wait til I had £10 of orders = delay in ordering sometimes if I just want small things.

So Amazon now making it so you have to place a minimum order of £20 just means I will use Amazon less. Yes postage costs but Amazon Prime costs were so high compared to other countries..,and isn't Amazon still making minimum profits? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31051044

That tells me that there is something majorally wrong with Amazon's business model. I can't be the only person to walk away. For me, I will buy from somewhere that offers good value and reliability. Amazon lost the kudos with me.

chrisjw37

I' re confirmed it with Amazon UK customer service and the blame 'the higher ups'.

Sadly these are the same money grabbing fools that refuse to pay British Taxes.

Sadly my usage is going to go down as £20 before you get free p&p is just a cynical rip off, I mean- it's doubled!
What's wrong with a small increment?

There are other agents and the postage charges make Amazon items non competitive for small items.

chrisjw37

How very unpleasant of you

SimonSays wrote: »

There really is an attitude of consumers, I want it for a penny and want it delivered free.

Delivery costs money! Either pay the £20 minimum or get prime

I for one will enjoy earlier prime dispatches because people won't be clogging up the system with free deliveries

tomtontom

chrisjw37 wrote: »

I' re confirmed it with Amazon UK customer service and the blame 'the higher ups'.

Sadly these are the same money grabbing fools that refuse to pay British Taxes.

Sadly my usage is going to go down as £20 before you get free p&p is just a cynical rip off, I mean- it's doubled!
What's wrong with a small increment?

There are other agents and the postage charges make Amazon items non competitive for small items.

You didn't mind using the "money grabbing fools" when the free postage level was lower - hypocrisy much?

Doc_N

tomtontom wrote: »

You didn't mind using the "money grabbing fools" when the free postage level was lower - hypocrisy much?

Isn't the point, though, that large-scale avoidance of UK taxes (which pay, amongst other things, for the NHS, education, pensions and pothole repairs) is even worse when prices go up despite the avoidance that hurts everyone?

Difficult to understand why the aggressive tax avoidance practised by the likes of Amazon, Google and Boots seems to be viewed so benignly by the people (all of us) that it hurts. I suppose with Amazon it feeds back into lower prices, and Google stays popular with free software - but Boots? One of the most overpriced shops out there and feeding off the NHS it's helping to strangle.

jon81uk

kevroberts66 wrote: »

I'll use Play.com (Rakuten.co.uk) more now. as they still offer free delivery on most things

Play.com is a marketplace only don't forget, Play doesn't sell anything, only provide a platform for others to sell from.
Amazon also has marketplace sellers and they set their own delivery charges too so you can avoid the £20 min for free delivery by using a marketplace seller with free delivery, but it might work out cheaper to pay for delivery anyway!