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Amazon without prime is just frustrating at this point (and the price for prime is not worth it for the majority of people). In the UK minimum shipping is £20:

by koyote 11y ago

Amazon without prime is just frustrating at this point (and the price for prime is not worth it for the majority of people). In the UK minimum shipping is £20: I recently bought an item for £19.99 and had to buy a random tiny item for £0.10 so that I do not get charged £4 for shipping. Both items arrived separately...

joefarish 11y ago
£0.01 sim-card for next time: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-Pay-You-Sim-Card/dp/B00299JIQ2/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-Pay-You-Sim-Card/dp/B00299J...
- koyote 11y ago
  Ah, nice one! Can't believe I paid the extra 9p for a pill box instead :)
  - joefarish 11y ago
    Supposedly http://www.fillerchecker.co.uk/ http://www.fillerchecker.co.uk/ will help you find products to help hit that £20 total but a lot of their numbers seem to be off.
sokoloff 11y ago
This site is aimed squarely at your use case: http://www.filleritem.com/ http://www.filleritem.com/ (I have no financial or other connection except as a past user.)
kartickv 11y ago
In that case, the customer-friendly move would have been to charge you £0.10 for shipping rather than £4. As things stand, you had to waste time buying something you didn't want, increasing Amazon's costs, and others who did not discover the trick would have been unhappy. I wouldn't mind if the minimum shipping limit goes up, since it's a simpler system — I don't have to waste time figuring out these loopholes.
- koyote 11y ago
  Yeah that is exactly my point. Additionally Amazon has added more and more hurdles to the buying process such as add-on items and items shipped from a merchant who has his own shipping charges which do not count towards the 'free shipping minimum'. All of these things make the whole buying process for the customer ever more frustrating.
  - Tempest1981 11y ago
    But while searching for that £0.10 item, some users will find another £10 item. That may be their strategy.

by koyote 11y ago

joefarish 11y ago

£0.01 sim-card for next time: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-Pay-You-Sim-Card/dp/B00299JIQ2/ http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-Pay-You-Sim-Card/dp/B00299J...

koyote 11y ago
Ah, nice one! Can't believe I paid the extra 9p for a pill box instead :)
- joefarish 11y ago
  Supposedly http://www.fillerchecker.co.uk/ http://www.fillerchecker.co.uk/ will help you find products to help hit that £20 total but a lot of their numbers seem to be off.

sokoloff 11y ago

This site is aimed squarely at your use case: http://www.filleritem.com/ http://www.filleritem.com/ (I have no financial or other connection except as a past user.)

kartickv 11y ago

In that case, the customer-friendly move would have been to charge you £0.10 for shipping rather than £4. As things stand, you had to waste time buying something you didn't want, increasing Amazon's costs, and others who did not discover the trick would have been unhappy. I wouldn't mind if the minimum shipping limit goes up, since it's a simpler system — I don't have to waste time figuring out these loopholes.

koyote 11y ago
Yeah that is exactly my point. Additionally Amazon has added more and more hurdles to the buying process such as add-on items and items shipped from a merchant who has his own shipping charges which do not count towards the 'free shipping minimum'. All of these things make the whole buying process for the customer ever more frustrating.
- Tempest1981 11y ago
  But while searching for that £0.10 item, some users will find another £10 item. That may be their strategy.