[newaccount74]

> a yearly subscription that makes delivery of most products free

Which is great marketing trick, because you are of course paying for delivery through inflated unit prices. A lot of things on Amazon are a few Euros more expensive than in other stores because they just hide the delivery fee in the unit price. There is no such thing as "free delivery", you are paying for it one way or another.

[derefr]

The prices on Amazon might be "a few euros more", but where I live, the delivery fee for getting e.g. a 65" TV delivered from Best Buy or Costco, would be more like an extra $30-$50. (And I don't own a car, so I can't just go pick it up from the store, either.)

[newaccount74]

I was talking about cheap stuff, with pricier things the price difference is often a lot more.

What I'm trying to say is that often stores that don't offer free shipping are cheaper than Amazon and you should compare the total prices instead of just ordering from Amazon assuming that they are the cheapest. In my experience they sometimes are the cheapest, but in most cases they are not.

[barbazoo]

How often do you buy something that bulky though that would make this a good deal?

[2muchcoffeeman]

There are frequently items on sale though. Like Prime Day, or some items just seem to be low stock and they want to get rid of inventory. In Australia you can also get 1 month of Prime for less than the cost of normal delivery.

So you get a discount on the item you want, free shipping and Prime for a month for less than the normal cost of normal shipping, and it comes the next day. Free shipping without Prime only has a threshold of $39AUD too. It's pretty easy to game things in your favour to get a cheaper item and still get next day delivery.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

depends.. for a lot of cheap products you'll pay a premium for shipping but not everything