Free Shipping from Amazon...?

Guess what??? Free shipping offer to Singapore for orders above US$125 was announced on the Amazon website on June 8. Amazon says that only goods it sells, and not those from third-party sellers, will qualify for the AmazonGlobal Saver Shipping programme.  Free shipping makes a lot of sense and would save fans of Amazon a lot of money.

However not everyone is impressed by Amazon's free shipping programme because of its caveats. There are too many restrictions. Under this new scheme, goods sold by Amazon which are in stock will arrive in 11 to 14 days. Items weighing 9kg or more, gift cards, Kindle devices and some over-sized items, do not qualify for the free-shipping scheme. One needs to spend US$125 just to get free shipping, & not everyone will want to buy eight to 10 books at a go. Oh well, it's a business so what you expect?