Amazon Lowers Minimum Spend Threshold For Free Shipping

Amazon Lowers Minimum Spend Threshold For Free Shipping

About a year ago, Amazon increased the minimum amount that needed to be spent in order to qualify for free shipping, from $35 to $49. Within the last few days, without any formal announcement, Amazon lowered the minimum requirement back down to $35. According to Amazon’s free shipping help page: “Add at least $35 of … Read more

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Amazon Sits On Top of SMB “Trust Index”

Alignable, a local business network site, has collected what they call NPS(net promotor score) from small business users, along with members of its site. The site asks business owners and its members to rank brands on a scale of 1-10, based on how likely they are to recommend the brand to someone. Alignable then takes … Read more

Amazon to Ban Incentivized Reviews

Amazon has been fighting back against ‘fake’ reviews on products for years now, even filing lawsuits against individuals and companies that use or create fake reviews.  They had gotten to the point where the vast majority of reviews are written by people who have actually used the products (or those who are making ‘compilation reviews’), … Read more

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Amazon Dominates on Prime Day

Amazon’s “Prime Day” has already been called a major success this year, but a new report shows just how incredible it was.  A report from Slice Intelligence found that 74% of all e-Commerce that took place in the US on Prime Day went through Amazon.  This is absolutely incredible when you look at how many … Read more