An easy way to get free shipping on Amazon?

[Delta]

Hi everyone. I have an Amazon hack that I'd like to share with you. In order to receive free shipping on Amazon, you need to order at least $35 worth of products. A little trick that I learned is that if you order $35 worth of goods to qualify for free shipping, you can send back some of the products (many times for free). Amazon usually gives free shipping labels. So, in the end, you keep the product you want and send back the one you don't want to keep. Voila! free shipping. I hope this helps you.

[Kargor]

Just FYI: abuses like this are the reason why "free <whatever>" is getting more and more limited.

Like in this case: free shipping, free returns, and at the end of the day Amazon has to pay a lot of shipping for whatever tiny order piece that you actually kept. And it's not even a return because you expected something different, or because you ordered clothing but it didn't fit -- you are actually ordering it with the sole intention of sending it back.

[Sarge the summer dreadin' dog]

Origineel geplaatst door Delta (EB):

Hi everyone. I have an Amazon hack that I'd like to share with you. In order to receive free shipping on Amazon, you need to order at least $35 worth of products. A little trick that I learned is that if you order $35 worth of goods to qualify for free shipping, you can send back some of the products (many times for free). Amazon usually gives free shipping labels. So, in the end, you keep the product you want and send back the one you don't want to keep. Voila! free shipping. I hope this helps you.

People doing this is why amazon is going to drop free returns, because people are abusing the ♥♥♥♥ out of it as you are clearly showing. Just wait to buy stuff til you reach 35 dollars of things you need. Good lord you ruin nice things for all of us doing stuff like that.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-just-changed-return-policy-152255966.html

[Rio]

Thanks for making us regular customers lose free shipping one day.

[Xero_Daxter]

Dax is the type of person who pays for a free item with 20 dollar shipping instead of an item costing 20 dollars with free shipping.

[eram]

you waste so much time having to go to a amazon approved mail box or whatever place to send it back its not worth it.

you have more time than money

[Sarge the summer dreadin' dog]

Origineel geplaatst door Xero_Daxter:

Dax is the type of person who pays for a free item with 20 dollar shipping instead of an item costing 20 dollars with free shipping.

You are single handily keeping FedEx in business

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

just be a normal person and wait to genuinely need more then 35$ worth of goods before ordering anything.

or just pick amazon prime if you're ordering often enough.

[gugnihr]

Origineel geplaatst door Kargor:

Just FYI: abuses like this are the reason why "free <whatever>" is getting more and more limited.

Like in this case: free shipping, free returns, and at the end of the day Amazon has to pay a lot of shipping for whatever tiny order piece that you actually kept. And it's not even a return because you expected something different, or because you ordered clothing but it didn't fit -- you are actually ordering it with the sole intention of sending it back.

I agree, this kind of behaviour sooner or later backfires and because of people like OP we all will get either a worse service or a more expensive service (and let's just hope it's not both).

[Raoul]

Origineel geplaatst door Sarge "Bubble Man" Doggo:

Origineel geplaatst door Delta (EB):

Hi everyone. I have an Amazon hack that I'd like to share with you. In order to receive free shipping on Amazon, you need to order at least $35 worth of products. A little trick that I learned is that if you order $35 worth of goods to qualify for free shipping, you can send back some of the products (many times for free). Amazon usually gives free shipping labels. So, in the end, you keep the product you want and send back the one you don't want to keep. Voila! free shipping. I hope this helps you.

People doing this is why amazon is going to drop free returns, because people are abusing the ♥♥♥♥ out of it as you are clearly showing. Just wait to buy stuff til you reach 35 dollars of things you need. Good lord you ruin nice things for all of us doing stuff like that.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-just-changed-return-policy-152255966.html

Don't think we ever had free returns in the UK, the once or twice I ever tried doing a return and they charged me for the shipping label out of the refund...

[eram]

Origineel geplaatst door Raoul:

Origineel geplaatst door Sarge "Bubble Man" Doggo:

People doing this is why amazon is going to drop free returns, because people are abusing the ♥♥♥♥ out of it as you are clearly showing. Just wait to buy stuff til you reach 35 dollars of things you need. Good lord you ruin nice things for all of us doing stuff like that.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/amazon-just-changed-return-policy-152255966.html

Don't think we ever had free returns in the UK, the once or twice I ever tried doing a return and they charged me for the shipping label out of the refund...

had free returns on amazon for about 12 years in the uk
prime and sometimes not prime.
dont buy from 3rd party sellers

[kilésengati]

That's extremely wasteful. Not only is there extra energy wasted for returning, but warehouses have a tendency to throw away returns, particularly cheaper ones, since it's often too expensive to put them back on sale or donate them.

[Electric Cupcake]

Prime was good. Until they started force-bundling in the worthless Amazon Video scam and raising the subscription price with it.

Not being able to consistently maintain the 2-day shipping was the pandemic's fault rather than Amazon's, but insulting customers with useless bundled stuff with no opt-out, and raising the price for degraded service made quitting Prime a no-brainer.

[eram]

Origineel geplaatst door Electric Cupcake:

Prime was good. Until they started force-bundling in the worthless Amazon Video scam and raising the subscription price with it.

Not being able to consistently maintain the 2-day shipping was the pandemic's fault rather than Amazon's, but insulting customers with useless bundled stuff with no opt-out, and raising the price for degraded service made quitting Prime a no-brainer.

can get 1 hour delivery where i work in London
https://imgur.com/1Gqddsa

[Tristin]

Origineel geplaatst door Delta (EB):

An easy way to get free shipping on Amazon?

Hi everyone. I have an Amazon hack that I'd like to share with you. In order to receive free shipping on Amazon, you need to order at least $35 worth of products. A little trick that I learned is that if you order $35 worth of goods to qualify for free shipping, you can send back some of the products (many times for free). Amazon usually gives free shipping labels. So, in the end, you keep the product you want and send back the one you don't want to keep. Voila! free shipping. I hope this helps you.

What a nice person.

[skOsH♥]

How on Earth will Jeff take off in one of his signature ♥♥♥♥ rockets if we don't give him shipping?

I mean, Amazon pays no taxes pretty much, and the CEO makes like $45,000 an hour.

I think they could just make all their shipping free. If they ran a standard deviation on it, in terms of how many more people would buy how much more..

They might end up making more due to more orders. And what you send back, typically just gets routed to someone else who ordered the same thing.