7 ways to get free delivery on your Amazon orders
Don't fork out for delivery at Amazon, use one of these simple tricks and get it for next to nothing
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REMEMBER the days when you’d get free delivery at Amazon if you spent £10 or more? They were great.
Last May, the online giant angered customers when it increased its minimum spend to £20.
This means that you now have to order double the amount of stuff in order to get your free delivery.
However, with Black Friday and Christmas around the corner, more and more of us may be spending some serious cash at Amazon and there are some little-known ways to dodge the delivery charge.
1. Pre-order something that won’t be out for months
Want to buy something that costs a fiver but don’t want to pay the extra £3.95 for delivery? Then just add an item to your basket that is pre-order only.
For example, if you were to add the Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Legacy game to your order, it will add a hefty £64 to your basket (taking you well over the free delivery threshold).
You’ll only be charged for the game once it has dispatched (this particular game is due to be released on November 4).
Then as soon as the item you do want has been dispatched you can cancel the Call of Duty and still dodge the delivery charge.
2. Sign up for a free trial of Amazon Prime - but don’t forget to cancel
Thinking you’re going to be ordering quite a lot of items in the next few weeks? Then sign up to a .
It will offer next-day delivery as well as free video streaming (it’s a bit like Netflix).
The service usually costs £79, so make sure you cancel before the month is up if you don’t want to continue with it.
In fact, as soon as you sign up, you can go back into your account and select the option requesting that your membership doesn’t continue after the free trial.
If you’re a student you can get a whopping free six-month trial of unlimited one day delivery, prime video and prime music. Then after the if over you get 50% off the price of Prime.
3. Order filler items to get your item to hit the £20 mark
It’s no surprise it’s hard to come across items that are exactly £20 at Amazon - it wants you to pay for delivery.
However, if you find you are really close to hitting the mark, there’s a nifty little tool called which will help you identify products that will help you reach the magic £20 mark which will enable you to get free delivery.
You’re better off buying some cupcake toppers for 40p, than paying £3.95 delivery. So, this isn’t strictly free but it’s the way to spend less than a pound and avoid the full delivery charge.
4. Family member have Prime? Get them to add you to their account
Does someone in your house already have Amazon Prime? You can share the benefits with up to four members (the next day delivery bit) and Prime Instant Video with up to one member.
Log into your Amazon account. Go to ‘Manage Prime Membership’ and then click ‘Invite a Household Member’.
You can then share you delivery benefits by entering the name, relationship, birthday and email address of the guest along with your birthday (your guest will need to know the month and day of your birthday to accept the invitation). Amazon Student accounts are not allowed to share their accounts.
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5. Compare with other sellers
At Amazon, you can either buy your product from Amazon itself or you can order the exact same product from a Marketplace seller. These are independent sellers who offer a variety of new, used, refurbished and collectable merchandise.
If your item is considerably under £20, and you don’t want to top it up - check there isn’t an amazon seller selling exactly the same item, but delivering it free (or at least with cheaper delivery costs).
6. Ordering £10 or more of eligible books gives you free delivery
Orders including £10 or more of eligible books qualify for free delivery or free standard pickup. You can find the list of eligible books (there are hundreds of thousands of them, including best sellers such as the new Harry Potter book) .
7. Get the item delivered to an Amazon Locker
According to who have tried this out, you can get any item sold directly by Amazon (even if it costs less than a tenner) delivered free of charge to an Amazon Locker as long as it’s smaller than 53cm x 39.6cm x 33 cm and weighs less than 10lb.
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