Amazon ups Super Saver Delivery charge to £20

As of today the price of free delivery on Amazon products has been increased.

In July 2013 Amazon introduced a minimum £10 spend requirement to qualify for Super Saver Delivery, although a number of items such as books, DVDs and, crucially, games were exempt. These exemptions were then scrapped in January 2014.

Now the minimum Super Saver Delivery spend has been increased to £20.

Part of the reason may be to encourage shoppers to pay out £79 to upgrade to Amazon Prime, which offers automatic next day delivery on all Amazon stocked products, as well as access to Amazon’s video streaming platform.

Prime membership was itself increased in price last year, having previously cost £49.99

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/amazon-u ... 20/0148804

strawberry float off you greedy banana splits. Will be using them alot less now.

How are they being greedy banana splits?

It must cost them a fortune sending out millions of cheap pieces of gooseberry fool for povvos.

They could at least now pay their taxes...

Can't say I order a lot from Amazon that falls under the £20 barrier though.

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They dont seem to have changed the minimum for Super Saver Delivery to Ireland, which has always been £25, so Im not affected. I dont see why this is a huge deal anyway, just add in something else youd like, a movie, a book, a game, whatever, to push you over the minimum spend if you really dont want to pay for delivery.

KKLEIN wrote:They could at least now pay their taxes...

What tax don't they pay that they're supposed to?

ProPoser wrote:What tax don't they pay that they're supposed to?

The loophole kind.

Falsey wrote:How are they being greedy banana splits?

It must cost them a fortune sending out millions of cheap pieces of gooseberry fool for povvos.

Well, call me cynical but it seems they are trying to push people ever close to using their Prime service. Boggles my mind people are willing to pay £79. Considering it's costs something like £3+ for delivery for item, you start to lose the savings over other companies immediately.

Rax wrote:They dont seem to have changed the minimum for Super Saver Delivery to Ireland, which has always been £25, so Im not affected. I dont see why this is a huge deal anyway, just add in something else youd like, a movie, a book, a game, whatever, to push you over the minimum spend if you really dont want to pay for delivery.

But tha's exactly what they want!

Pretty savage change there, definitely a move to drive people to prime in my opinion! The missus accidentally signed up to prime and whilst Prime video is gooseberry fool compared to Netflix, it is handy getting all your shite courier delivered the next day. I'm considering renewing, this time last year I was cancelling my Prime account after the increase so they won me over with that one.

I didn't realise they even had a minimum limit :lol:

just order extra gooseberry fool to boost to £20 then return the extra gooseberry fool for free. Done.

You can't return stuff for free.

Plus, who in their right mind is going to do that anyway? :lol:

Prime is really good. And you can share it with like 3 other people so its £20 a year

Falsey wrote:Prime is really good. And you can share it with like 3 other people so its £20 a year

What?!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/custom ... =201277270

Sweet, cheers. Did not know that.

Edit: anybody know how rigid the 'household' thing is?

Just set your primary address on all accounts to the same one if you want to be safe

You can have deliveries actually sent anywhere you like

Floex wrote:You can't return stuff for free.

Plus, who in their right mind is going to do that anyway?

Yes you can, I've never paid to return things to Amazon.

I do it with ASOS a lot, I'll just double my order up with different sizes so I know it will fit me and I can get free next day delivery.

ProPoser wrote:Sweet, cheers. Did not know that.

Edit: anybody know how rigid the 'household' thing is?

It's not very strict. My mum has it and added me, my brother and sister to it and there's been no problem at all. I think it's just he main Prime user that gets access to the video services though.

Hmmn. Amazon. Their product range is amazing and their customer service is very good; but then their random delivery methods (London area) piss me off, and (for games) they tend to follow competitors rather than set lower prices themselves.

EDIT: On Amazon itself there's not yet any mention of the increase; currently Super Saver delivery requires a minimum £10 spend.

Amazon US had it at $35(£23) minimum for a while now, so for once it's cheaper in the UK.

You'd think with all those taxes they don't pay they could fund their own delivery network and gooseberry fool would get cheaper, oh wait they have the network!

Amazon ups Super Saver Delivery charge to £20

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