> Amazon is creating a race-to-the-bottom with free shipping This hasn't been true for a while. For at least several years they've been going in the other dire

> Amazon is creating a race-to-the-bottom with free shipping This hasn't been true for a while. For at least several years they've been going in the other direction with free shipping. They've raised the minimum purchase requirement for getting free shipping twice in the last few years ($25 to $35 to $49) and the other way to get "free" shipping isn't free, it's $99/year and you have to make a certain number of orders per year to get it to amortize to a reasonable shipping cost (which still won't be free.)