{"id":2804,"date":"2013-10-23T06:39:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2013-10-23T06:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T13:39:14","slug":"save-even-more-on-amazon-shipping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2013\/save-even-more-on-amazon-shipping\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Even More on Amazon Shipping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Amazon raised its <i>Free Shipping<\/i> threshold by 40% &#8212; from $25 to $35.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight:bold; color:darkgreen; text-align:center; font-size:125%\"><span style=\"background:#d6f9ad; padding:5px 8px\">That makes <a class='amazon' href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/primesignup\/ref=as_acph_pr_piv_71_on?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=markroth-ac-20\" title=\"Amazon Prime -- save even more since October 22, 2013\">Amazon Prime<\/a> even more enticing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here are two excerpts from Amazon&#8217;s announcement: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/feature.html\/?ie=UTF8&#038;docId=1001427161\" title=\"Changes to Amazon Free Shipping\">Changes to Amazon Free Shipping<\/a>: <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon&#8217;s minimum order size for free shipping has changed to $35.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of Amazon customers have already made the choice of faster shipping by becoming Amazon Prime members. Prime includes unlimited Free Two-Day Shipping, with no minimum order size, on more than 15 million items [&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I learned about this earlier today from Ina Steiner at EcommerceBytes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amazon has raised the bar to qualify for free shipping through its &#8220;Free Super Saver Shipping&#8221; program, increasing the minimum requirement from $25 to $35.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alignrightsmall\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecommercebytes.com\/cab\/abn\/y13\/m10\/i23\/s03\" title=\"Amazon's shipping change\">Sellers Speculate on Impact of Amazon&#8217;s Shipping Change<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So to get <strong>Free Super Saver Shipping<\/strong> on your Amazon purchases you&#8217;ll have to squeeze at least $35 worth of goods into your cart. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\" style=\"text-align:left\">Alternately, you can try <a class='amazon' href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/primesignup\/ref=as_acph_pr_piv_71_on?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=markroth-ac-20\" title=\"Amazon Prime -- free shipping all the time on any purchase\">Amazon Prime<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=markroth-ac-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em; margin-bottom:0; padding-bottom:0\">\n<li>Try it free for 30 days!<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited free two-day shipping<\/li>\n<li>No minimum order size<\/li>\n<li>$79 a year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Please note that though they hawk all kinds of videos and movies and what-not, the <strong>unlimited free shipping is for all kinds of stuff<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So give the free trial of <a class='amazon' href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/video\/primesignup\/ref=as_acph_pr_piv_71_on?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;tag=markroth-ac-20\" title=\"Amazon Prime -- try it free for 30 days!\">Amazon Prime<\/a> a 30-day test run. If you don&#8217;t like it, just be sure to cancel in time.<\/p>\n<p>While you&#8217;re at it, check out <strong>today&#8217;s specials on Amazon<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top:-1.2em\">\n<li><a class=\"amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B005BG7MK4?tag=markroth-ac-20\" title=\"$49.99 special on Mr. Coffee latte maker\">Mr. Coffee BVMC-EL1 Cafe Latte<\/a> &#8212; $49.99<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/b\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;node=7730042011&#038;pf_rd_i=20&#038;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;pf_rd_p=1596371562&#038;pf_rd_r=065KZ84P35K8MMX41V78&#038;pf_rd_s=left-new-1&#038;pf_rd_t=701&#038;smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&#038;tag=markroth-ac-20\" title=\"up to 60% off Sony flash memory\">Sony flash memory<\/a> &#8212; up to 60% off<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It must be time to try Amazon Prime for free for 30 days.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1019],"tags":[1021,718,1020],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-savings","tag-amazon","tag-free-stuff","tag-shopping"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-Je","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}