Amazon Will Not Give Me a Free Delivery Option for a Order over £35!

PhilipMarc Maybe because its a PC case but these are very small cases and very light. They don't seem like a large item to me but perhaps they are grouped in with larger PC cases but in the past those cases were still posted free if you went over the price threshold. Amazon sell much larger items, microwaves, desktop pcs with monitors, bicycles etc, etc. My mother is doing a prime trial at the moment so just ordered it through her account. She only lives about a five minute walk away from me.

Leannexxx It is from Amazon its their reuse products shipped by Amazon themselves and in the past had the same delivery costs as normal Amazon purchases. Maybe Amazon are getting annoyed with people who do prime trials but never subscribe. Prime is £9 a month which is £108 a year or £540 over 5 years. These vampire payments add up to be significant causes of debt for a lot of people. Many of which take little advantage of prime benefits. I had a look at recent prime offerings for movies and TV and personally I wasn't impressed at all. It's not just the damage to an individuals bank account but the damage to the economy and cause of a trading deficit which causes more borrowing and more destruction to public services like the NHS etc. People need to take responsibility in what they do financially but they rarely do.

BonzoBanana something is not right we them can't even get stuff delivered to the post office now for free either

Leannexxx Royal Mail has become so unreliable recently plus they have massively increased some of their postage costs. These costs may have caused Amazon to increase their prices and non prime members will get the worst of it. I've had a parcel released from customs from Aliexpress on the 5th November into the hands of the Royal Mail and still not delivered. I have to wait another 10 days or so and then I get my refund for the order which was over £100 of stuff. You can't track it either that isn't working. I feel like Amazon are likely facing much higher courier costs plus more issues. Also Labour have added a lot of costs to employers like Amazon, Evri, Royal Mail, Yodel etc. These costs have to be factored in which I guess means higher prices or high price free delivery thresholds. We are moving into the time of year when couriers are under the greatest strain and more parcels are damaged or lost.

emmabeckz you can choose free delivery but it has to be on a certain date. They have selected days with free delivery for non prime members.

SebK84 How does that make sense?

SebK84 They are free on prime but not on a standard account even if over the price threshold. Size wise these are small cases, 16 inches by 14 inches by 10 inches boxed with a weight of around a couple of kgs I guess. They do not include a power supply its just thin sheet metal mainly. No warning at any point was given that these were classed as larger items.

BonzoBanana there is a option to choose free delivery. Try it again. I just added the cases and it showed 4.99 but you can choose a date with free delivery.

At least on the phone

Did it work?

PhilipMarc the issue there is that op selected premium delivery. Free delivery for non prime members is on selected days and it has to be standard not premium

SebK84 It might work on the app but not on a standard browser as far as I can tell. I've not selected premium delivery its forced on me. However I am wondering if they are now hiding free delivery more than they used to. I guess the phone app doesn't have to pay affiliate income so is more profitable for them so maybe it is available there.

BonzoBanana I checked on my pc on non prime acc and still shows an option for free standard and premium 4.99 delivery.

maybe its something to do with your location and distance from fulfillment centre, but I would contact cs.

SebK84 Yes down in the south west away from any motorways etc. The fulfilment centres are likely a long way away.

DeBunny The postage is free or was free if you order over a set amount so you don't need to pay postage for Amazon orders without prime. I find the prime video service very limited with not much I want to watch. Normally if I do a trial for a month I've exhausted all I want to watch. I've not used Amazon music but normally use youtube with adblockers and use utilities to save such music as mp3s. Then I can load up my phone or tablet with mp3s I can play anywhere without a internet connection.

I personally don't see a case for prime for me. However I tend to look around for pricing and would spend more on ebay or other online sites than Amazon. Amazon charges more fees to sellers than ebay so often products are more expensive on Amazon so I wouldn't want to pay a monthly subscription just to pay more for items. I feel prime makes you feel like once you have it you should use Amazon more because of prime postage but this could actually cost you much more when sellers on ebay or elsewhere can be significantly cheaper. Also marketplace sellers can be cheaper than Amazon themselves and offer free postage anyway without prime or are still cheaper with postage added. I just can't see the value in prime myself.

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This is the item;

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0CGV7T2LD/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?psc=1

I've ordered a couple for some cheap PC builds with aliexpress parts but have had to buy them through my mother's prime trial account so that I don't pay the postage now. It feels like a good deal but for some reason the amount of stock is increasing which is worrying, seems like a lot of people are returning this item. The motherboards I will be using have a grey/white finish so seem a good match for this case. Choose the 'reuse' stock with 20% off.

BonzoBanana yeah it's 4.99, but I can have it delivered to a local store for free

lilyflower Yes I don't get the free delivery option but I did notice a link saying 'Why didn't I qualify for free delivery?' which I clicked on and got this;

Why didn't I qualify for FREE Delivery?

Not Eligible:

The availability of FREE Delivery is dependent on total order value, on delivery destination eligibility, and on all items being grouped into one delivery.

For UK addresses, all items sold directly by Amazon and any Marketplace items that are "Fulfilled by Amazon" are eligible for FREE Delivery, with the exception of deliveries made to Pickup Locations. Orders including £10 or more of books qualify for FREE Delivery. All orders of £35 or more across any product category also qualify for FREE Delivery.

For deliveries to the Republic of Ireland, orders must total £35 or more (including local VAT) to qualify for FREE Delivery, and can include Marketplace items that are "Fulfilled by Amazon".

For more information on FREE Delivery, click here

The only thing there that seems like it could apply to me is delivery destination eligibility. Also as far as I can remember the only time I've lost a parcel from Amazon is when they put my parcel in the bin and the bin was collected before I could get the parcel out of it but that was years ago. They have often left parcels in places easily seen by passers-by but still haven't lost those parcels.

jms19 A vampire payment is when you have multiple small payments being taken over a long time. They look small and affordable but collectively can do a huge amount of damage to your finances and lead people to borrowing and debt. Often its for goods or services people don't even need or don't use very much. It's like a situation where multiple vampire bats attach themselves to a cow and come back night after night draining that cow of blood which over time is a huge amount of blood but only a small amount is taken each night per bat. There was a staggering statistic last year of something like 15 million people in the UK having Amazon prime so a simple calculation of 540 pounds over 5 years multiplied by 15 million is something like 8 billion pounds. The current government debt level for everything including pension shortfalls etc is 180 thousand pounds per citizen from a baby just born to a person on their death bed. We are a country on economic self-destruct.