Amazon funny business, again....(on free shipping)

last year

My wife placed 3 items in the cart this morning and all the shipping was free. I added 3 more items to the cart and got charged ~$11 for shipping for all 6 items. My added 3 items should have been free shipping too (we're not prime members but always check the delayed shipping box to get it free). No matter how I tweeked the boxes it always charged for some shipping for the total of 6 items. So I then deleted my 3 items from the cart which returned her 3 items to free shipping. I went ahead and placed her order.

Then I went back to Amazon with a clean slate and loaded the cart with my 3 original items and low & behold they came up with free shipping. Maybe my added 3 items to her 3 items complicated the packaging process? I dunno, but beware of funny business.

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Uptown Gal
last year
Was your second total enough? Sometimes, the free shipping is only good if

you spend so much. Hope you can get this fixed, anyway.
greenshoekitty
last year
There are some things from company's that don't ship free. Every once in a while, I find that to happen. Maybe that is what happened.
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maire_cate
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nickel_kg
last year
My guess (only a guess) is that six items complicated the shipping. Good idea of yours to back out 3, buy, then place a second order for 3.
vgkg Z-7 Va
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Uptown Gal , yes all 6 items were over a $60 total, separately about $30 total so both should have had free shipping (>$25). I think that Nickel_kg is right.
maifleur03
last year
Easy to do but since many items are sold by different sellers were the items from the original seller or a different one. I have had it happen a couple of times.
Kathsgrdn
last year
Apparently there are world wide Amazon warehouse worker's protests today.
vgkg Z-7 Va
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"Easy to do but since many items are sold by different sellers were the items from the original seller or a different one. I have had it happen a couple of times. "

2 of my items were Amazon brand batteries which were listed as free shipping, my 3rd item was super glue which had shipped for free before. All 3 of my wife's items were free shipping in the last stage before I added my 3 items to hers (all 6 in one "cart"). It's probably some technical shipping glitch but from now on I'll be juggling our orders into 2 "carts" when shipping isn't free for larger orders over $25. At least the site is flexible before committing to buy, just need to keep an eye on their shipping shell game.
chisue
last year
From the heading, I thought this was going to be about the products where the item price is a dollar or two, until you get to the shipping, which is six times that amount. I guess Amazon wants to offer *everything* at a low price, but doesn't want to ship free from these merchants.
maifleur03
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I may be wrong but if there is a shipping fee it is set both by the shipping company and the shipper which is not Amazon. Many of the things that are sold on Amazon unless there is the small disclaimer of "fulfilled by Amazon" are never handled by the company. Edited to add that locally some are being sent to an Amazon distribution site which is a mail/freight drop where the packages are loaded onto a van for distribution.

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happy2b…gw
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I ordered patio chair covers last week. If I ordered one, the arrival date was two days later. If I ordered 4, the date was 7 days later. I ordered them one at a time thus placing 4 different orders of the exact same thing. They arrived in two days all packed in the same box. Creative shopping.
maifleur03
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A comment about all the 4 covers packed in the same box. It shows someone was paying attention if they were ordered from an independent seller. Amazon does post a disclaimer when I order stating orders may arrive in the same box.

Most of what I have been ordering recently has come before the original arrival date. Currently awaiting my annual fruitcake order. Originally date was in December. Moved up to Sunday but since it is being shipped USPS on Informed Delivery it is shown to be delivered Monday with regular mail.
arcy_gw
last year
I don't understand what happened to you but it is often true the free shipping is only on $25 of qualifying items. Some items will never be free shipping w/o Prime.
vgkg Z-7 Va
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^^^ arcy it has me stumped too. All 6 items qualified for free shipping but oddly not when in one cart. Breaking it up into 2 carts made it work for free shipping (both >$25). At least there is a work around if this occurs again.

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