Amazon Prime $67 today only 09/25/15

wbwood wrote:

Empty Nest, Soon wrote:
I’ve never paid for shipping from Amazon, since my orders are always over the threshold for free shipping, currently $35. We both use Nook from B&N for e-reader. We have no interest in streaming video from Amazon.

My Amazon orders were always shipped in 1 or 2 days until May of this year. I’ve placed 7 orders since then and the average time to ship has been over 5 days, the minimum 4 days. Recently, I’ve placed orders with other vendors on the same day I placed an Amazon order. I received the items from the other vendors before Amazon even shipped my order placed the same day.

I can only conclude that Amazon is deliberately degrading shipping service for me in an attempt to coerce me into subscribing to Amazon Prime. I am not kindly disposed to pay them $99 per year in hopes of once more getting the prompt service I was previously accustomed to. I’m not interested in negotiating the ransom to get them to stop holding my orders hostage.

I sent them an email earlier today. We’ll see what they answer. I will take my business elsewhere if they continue to treat me so shabbily about shipping my stuff, even if it means a little less convenience or a slightly higher price. (I often find better prices elsewhere, anyway.)

Wayne

Everything that is sold on Amazon is not always shipped from Amazon. So it may depend on the shipper. And then again you may be right. And everything sold on Amazon does not fall under Prime shipping. So people should know that before they sign up. To make it worthwhile, you need to order a good bit every year and/or take advantage of the other little perks like some of the streaming movies/tv shows they have. They recently started allowing you to download the movie/show to your device and you can watch it later. That's good.

This is correct. Some things are sold by Amazon themselves, some merchants stock their merchandise at Amazon and the orders are very quickly "fulfilled by Amazon". Some merchants ship their own orders. Amazon only controls the efficiency of the first two categories. Only Amazon direct or Amazon FBA products are eligible for Prime.