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Amazon free shipping min. now $35. Boo.

October 22nd, 2013 at 08:05 pm

Darn it. I just read today about Amazon raising the minimum purchase for free shipping from $25 to $35. Considering I do a lot of my shopping on here, I'm not happy. I usually barely make the $35. Darn it!

In other Amazon news, I did my annual piggy bank purge this morning at the Coinstar for an Amazon gift certificate. I had $81.51 in there. Coinstar is free if you opt for a gift certificate instead of cash. It's a good thing, because I've noticed Coinstar upped their sorting charge from 8 percent to 10.54 percent. That seems pretty steep to me.

Our weather guy is also talking about possible snow tonight, which around here in October is crazy talk. Good thing I picked those peppers!


http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/22/pf/amazon-free-shipping-change/index.html?iid=HP_LN

Posted in Uncategorized | 11 Comments »

11 Responses to “Amazon free shipping min. now $35. Boo. ”

  1. creditcardfree Says:
    October 22nd, 2013 at 08:14 pm 1382472890
    1382472890

    We have Amazon Prime for $79 per year to get free 2 day shipping on most items. It includes streaming of videos and tv shows as well. You can use filleritem.com to find an item to get you to the minimum for free shipping!

  2. ThriftoRama Says:
    October 22nd, 2013 at 08:15 pm 1382472931
    1382472931

    Thanks for the tip on filleritem. I have heard you can share a prime membership with other people and get free shipping to several addresses. Do you know if that's true?

  3. MonkeyMama Says:
    October 22nd, 2013 at 08:44 pm 1382474692
    1382474692

    I was mortified to see a friend paid some absurd fee to cash out about $500 in change. (The fee was at least 10%). Ouch!

    Heck, any money sitting around in a piggy bank makes my skin crawl. Wink But, giving away 10% of it is just insane.

    When is the amazon change??

  4. ThriftoRama Says:
    October 22nd, 2013 at 09:12 pm 1382476377
    1382476377

    The amazon change started today.

    I usually clear out the piggy bank once or twice a year. I'd never pay a fee, though!

  5. MonkeyMama Says:
    October 22nd, 2013 at 09:54 pm 1382478853
    1382478853

    Today?!?! I wonder if my hubby knew this.

  6. PNW Mom Says:
    October 22nd, 2013 at 10:57 pm 1382482626
    1382482626

    US Bank allows us to take change in for free.

  7. creditcardfree Says:
    October 23rd, 2013 at 01:14 am 1382490863
    1382490863

    You can share it with others in your same household...or up to four coworkers. I think you have to have the same primary address (thus a work address). I have sent things with my prime membership to other people, gifts in my case.

  8. PatientSaver Says:
    October 24th, 2013 at 12:49 am 1382575762
    1382575762

    filleritem.com....that's a great website! cant wait to try it becus i too often barely exceed the minimum

  9. FrugalTexan75 Says:
    October 24th, 2013 at 01:22 am 1382577761
    1382577761

    Not only did they raise the minimum order amount, but they also said that the shipping will take longer - such as 5 - 8 business days.

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