Comments on: Amazon Policies Changing?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:25:12 +0000

I’d rather they keep offering the same high level of service I’ve come to expect from them. Free shipping is a necessity when their prices are only a dollar cheaper than Best Buy.

By: Mark S.

Mark S. — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:20:40 +0000

The thing they are still doing, and what is probably driving some of this is free shipping for orders $25 and over.

My experience has caused me to hold off until I had $25 worth of stuff before I ordered, so I didn’t have to pay the S&H. What with gas prices and such, in order for them to stay viable and make money, they had to make some changes.

Would you rather they do away with the free S&H for orders over $25 or some of these?

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:09:18 +0000

Pedro: Yeah, that’s an interesting side effect, isn’t it? If deals get too good for the customer in one location, it seems like the company backs off instead of other companies stepping up to match. Ah, capitalism.

Greg: Funny, I’ve never used the pre-order. Experiences do differ.

By: Greg McElhatton

Greg McElhatton — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:12:11 +0000

Ahhh, gotcha. I’d only ever saved money with the post-order guarantee once so I’d mentally inserted pre-order into its place. (With which I have gotten some good savings in the past.)

By: Pedro Tejeda

Pedro Tejeda — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:15:42 +0000

They recently started charging New York sales tax which my local store doesn’t on books and trades. My store gives me 20% off on trades opening weekend so at this point, Amazon is maybe 3 to 4 percent cheaper. Even with Amazon Prime, at this point, it just seems totally worth it to buy comics locally.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:02:52 +0000

Not pre, post, Greg. With the post-order price guarantee, if they dropped the price within 30 days of your purchase, they’d refund you the difference upon request. The pre-order guarantee is still there.

By: Greg McElhatton

Greg McElhatton — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:34:22 +0000

I just checked two different objects (Animal Crossing for the Wii, and the Essential Dykes to Watch Out For) and they both were offering the Pre-Order Price Guarantee. Is it still not showing up for you?

And I must say that for people who are scamming Amazon (as others in that SlickDeals thread note, like people who were clearly ordering and then returning things for Pepsi promotion points for instance) it doesn’t bother me that their accounts were shut down. They’re hardly the only ones to do that, too. Someone I used to know was banned chain-wide from returning anything to Barnes and Noble, because after he was fired from his position managing a local comic store, he started “returning” trade paperbacks left and right to get store credit for new things. So now he’s on the “do not allow to return” list.

By: Kiki

Kiki — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:45:57 +0000

They’ve also stopped accepting checks. And while that isn’t going to bother the majority of customers, it means they’ve lost my business. I really don’t want them taking the money directly from my checking – old prejudice on my part.

With the price of gas and the lack of bookstores in my immediate area, Amazon was getting the majority of my book business. Guess I’ll have to find somewhere else to shop now.