On Monday, October 21, 2013 12:22:24 AM UTC-5, Cheri wrote:
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> On Sunday, October 20, 2013 8:02:51 PM UTC-8, Cheri wrote:
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> > Many years ago Amazon offered free shipping on orders over 25.00 at a cost
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> > since most of my shopping is online. Judy (gramma) lives in Alaska so it's
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> I have been ordering from Amazon about 6 years, and never paid them any
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> order from them, I don't pay postage on most items. If any item has to come
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> option whether to cancel those item(s) or accept the small amount of
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> postage, and if I want it bad enough, I will accept, but the majority of
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> what I order, that comes direct from Amazon, is definitely FREE shopping,
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> They might have different guidelines for Alaska then, because I don't know
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> of 50.00 and buying over 25.00 in merchandise to qualify. Never heard of
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I live in Nebraska and have ordered from Amazon for over ten years. I've never heard of the one time fee of $50, most of my orders are over $25 and it's free shipping. I don't know what the hell you and sf are yammering about.