Powerful tricks for shopping at Amazon

I stumbled on the money saving expert website, and found this article.

Massive web store Amazon* almost needs a rule book for itself. One common mistake is to assume everything at Amazon is eligible for the free delivery over £5 deal, yet if it doesn't state this at the top of the page, it isn't. This is usually because while it looks like it, it's not actually Amazon selling the goods but a third party company; worse still, the delivery on these goods can be £5 or £6 per product.

Yet there's good news too. Did you know Amazon has a price promise; that if the price drops within 30 days of you buying an item you can claim the difference back. How to do it? Go to the "help" menu, then "returns and refunds", press the "more" button and on the right there's "contact customer service by email". Click here, sign in when prompted, select "other assistance" from the drop down menu.


Plus if you're close to that £5 free delivery limit, there's a special web-tool that'll find you a product to plug the gap (e.g. if you need to spend 34p to save £2.75 delivery, it'll find what to buy).

Don't be fooled into thinking Amazon Prime, its all-inclusive free one-day delivery package, will save you money. As you get free super saver delivery when you spend over £15 anyway you'd need to buy 34 DVDs or CDs, or 18 books costing under £15, one at a time to make the £49 annual cost worthwhile. (Emm, that's the reason I have just cancelled it!)