I don't have Amazon Prime, so every time I place an order, it has to have at least $25 worth of certain items to get free shipping.
If you do the same, then you cancel part of your order and that order drops down below $25, you WILL BE charged shipping (and sales tax on that shipping), and Amazon won't alert you of this fact.
I don't know how many times Amazon has done this to me, as I just figured it out recently.
You can still game just about any website’s free shipping using pre-orders. You will eventually get caught if you abuse it but if you do it very infrequently I guess you can decide if it’s worth it.
Your invoice is updated as soon as you cancel something. (they don’t force you to look at it tho)
Also learned to just cancel a order and re order everything if i make a mistake, customer support won’t correct orders.
Okay, I still don’t get all this. Youse doing one-click ordering or something?
Every, and I mean every time, I make any changes to an order, I get the big honkin’ box that spells out shipping options: free-shipping (only if >25bux, absent if not) delivered a week or two out, paid shipping for being delivered a whopping one day earlier), or higher-price options.
Any changes to the order, and even if still >25bux, it’ll revert back to paid shipping and you’ll have to reselect free-shipping, but I’ve never been blindsided with “haha, sucker! you now paid 8bux or more for shipping!”.
And if I saw it when reviewing the order, yeah, kill the order and redo.
Maybe it’s just me, but I even check the “fine-print box” that lists the breakdown — total, coupon, promotional discount, shipping, subtracted free-shipping, tax, and total — to make sure everything’s kosher. Hell, I’ll even work it out if a vipon is only being applied to 1 item or 2, etc., to make sure everything’s in order before pulling the trigger.