Amazon free shipping

[ClutchDisc]

I don't know how many of you shop on amazon, but for your information they just increased the free shipping to orders over $35.

[theholycow]

I saw that yesterday on an item and thought it was just some kind of funny business with that item. The fact that it's for everything is a bummer.

[ClutchDisc]

I'm wondering if maybe it's just up for the coming holiday season? I have a feeling that it's here to stay though.

[ClutchFork]

I buy a fair amount of CDs off Amazon and a few months back they upped the shipping cost from $2.99 to $3.99. Recently I found a used CD I wanted, then went to Half.com and got the same CD used at about the same price for only $2.99 shipping. Guess Half will be getting more of my used CD purchase business in the future.

The other annoying thing is when they had free shipping for $25 orders, I would want something that was listed at $24.95 and so was stuck waiting or buying some useless cheap item just to make the last nickel.

On the positive side, I got $30 off my Amazon order for opening a Amazon credit card and can use the points to purchase off of Amazon. Additionally there have been several times I preordered something and the price went down before it was available and they lowered my price.

[six]

Amazon Prime

Free 2-day shipping for you and four other people. Split the cost and it's only $16 for each of you. Plus whoever is the primary Prime member (hehe) gets unlimited streaming of a bunch of TV shows and movies, and unlimited lending from the Kindle Library.

[AHTOXA]

I was going to mention Amazon Prime.

On a side note, I've not bought a CD in over 5 years at the minimum. probably closer to 10.

[theholycow]

I buy a fair amount of CDs off Amazon and a few months back they upped the shipping cost from $2.99 to $3.99. Recently I found a used CD I wanted, then went to Half.com and got the same CD used at about the same price for only $2.99 shipping. Guess Half will be getting more of my used CD purchase business in the future.

The other annoying thing is when they had free shipping for $25 orders, I would want something that was listed at $24.95 and so was stuck waiting or buying some useless cheap item just to make the last nickel.

On the positive side, I got $30 off my Amazon order for opening a Amazon credit card and can use the points to purchase off of Amazon. Additionally there have been several times I preordered something and the price went down before it was available and they lowered my price.

CDs? What the heck? Want to buy any of mine? I have tons of 'em, haven't played one in like 10 years. I keep thinking I'll attempt to sell them, might get $10 from my whole collection. Classic rock, 90s/early 2000s rock, country, metal....

There are websites where you can enter the amount of Amazon filler you need to get free super saver shipping and they list items for that price. Amazon recently added specific "filler items" too, which it suggests. Or you could use this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017S4BEU

[Squint]

Amazon Prime

Free 2-day shipping for you and four other people. Split the cost and it's only $16 for each of you. Plus whoever is the primary Prime member (hehe) gets unlimited streaming of a bunch of TV shows and movies, and unlimited lending from the Kindle Library.

This.

[tankinbeans]

I buy a fair amount of CDs off Amazon and a few months back they upped the shipping cost from $2.99 to $3.99. Recently I found a used CD I wanted, then went to Half.com and got the same CD used at about the same price for only $2.99 shipping. Guess Half will be getting more of my used CD purchase business in the future.

The other annoying thing is when they had free shipping for $25 orders, I would want something that was listed at $24.95 and so was stuck waiting or buying some useless cheap item just to make the last nickel.

On the positive side, I got $30 off my Amazon order for opening a Amazon credit card and can use the points to purchase off of Amazon. Additionally there have been several times I preordered something and the price went down before it was available and they lowered my price.

CDs? What the heck? Want to buy any of mine? I have tons of 'em, haven't played one in like 10 years. I keep thinking I'll attempt to sell them, might get $10 from my whole collection. Classic rock, 90s/early 2000s rock, country, metal....

There are websites where you can enter the amount of Amazon filler you need to get free super saver shipping and they list items for that price. Amazon recently added specific "filler items" too, which it suggests. Or you could use this:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0017S4BEU

One of these days in going to start afresh and copy my CDs onto my computer ago I can sync to my iPod. Currently I have it synced to my laptop, but have 4 copies of everything. Kind of annoying.

[Shadow]

I was going to mention Amazon Prime.

On a side note, I've not bought a CD in over 5 years at the minimum. probably closer to 10.

Me too. I didn't think anyone was buying CDs anymore. I can't even remember my last CD.

[ClutchDisc]

I was going to mention Amazon Prime.

On a side note, I've not bought a CD in over 5 years at the minimum. probably closer to 10.

Me too. I didn't think anyone was buying CDs anymore. I can't even remember my last CD.

You guys are funny. I still buy CDs..

[tankinbeans]

I was going to mention Amazon Prime.

On a side note, I've not bought a CD in over 5 years at the minimum. probably closer to 10.

Me too. I didn't think anyone was buying CDs anymore. I can't even remember my last CD.

You guys are funny. I still buy CDs..

I buy more than I used to.

[ClutchFork]

I like owning the CD. Guess it comes from the days when you didn't have electronic music and had to buy albums and play them on a turntable. You would sit there listening to the music and checking out the album art and read the liner notes. A lot of the time I get the CD for not much more than the electronic download (sometimes for less), so why not get the CD unless you had storing them. I also have some CDs that you can't get on electronic download.

[potownrob]

i use CD-Rs to burn music from my computer onto to play in my car's cd player. the CDs contain a mix of MP3 music and files from CDs i burned onto my computer in a past life. i've also in the past had USB and headphone jack hookups on past car stereos to play iphone/ipod music in my past chariots. i also have copies of many CDs i made before the original CDs became unplayable (mainly from improper storage and handling - //cue SS Meat #1 where every single CD tried playing was skipping and the gang wanted to throw me in the river with my boombox).i'm back to playing CDs now. how come i feel like i'm in a time warp??

[six]

I still buy CDs on occasion, usually movie/TV soundtracks/scores and big-name albums. I download most of my music since I listen to a lot of electronica, most of which are not released physically otherwise, but you can't beat the sound quality of a CD (with the exception of DVD-A, SACDs, and lossless-downloads) for the same price as iTunes or Amazon MP3. And you can rip the CD in FLAC so you don't lose the quality either.