Practically since its arrival in Spain, Amazon has become one of the best options to buy any type of product without leaving home and the platform to be followed by the rest of the online stores.
If we are Prime users, we can buy any type of product on Amazon and receive it at home completely free of charge in 1 or 2 days maximum. It does not matter if the product costs 6 euros or 150. However, if we are not Prime users, we can also enjoy free shipping if the price of the order exceeds a certain amount.
As its presence in our country has increased, Amazon created its own transport platform in order to lower shipping costs, however, it seems that it is not enough and it has increased the price of the minimum order to enjoy free shipping.
Since a few days ago, we are not Prime users, when placing an order, if we want to take advantage of the free shipping that Amazon offers to non-Prime customers, the minimum order must be 35 euros. This represents an increase of 6 euros with respect to the price of the minimum order, which was 29 euros.
And we can find ourselves with a song in the teeth, since, in the United States, the price of the minimum order to enjoy free shipping has risen 10 dollars, also standing at 35 dollars. The policy of price increases that all technology companies are implementing without exception, has not only been reflected in this increase in Amazon, but also in the subscription to Prime Music, a service that raised its price a few weeks ago.
What has not changed is the price of sending books, which is still 19 euros. Apparently the digital format in books has won the battle against paper books. The banner where we are informed of the shipping cost continues to mark 29 euros, when the new price is shown just below.
Is it worth hiring Amazon Prime
With this increase, Amazon wants users not to dedicate themselves to making purchases every so often that do not exceed the minimum order to optimize resources, in addition to saving money on shipping, of course.
If we are not Prime users and we take advantage of the free shipping for a short time, it is probably worth the possibility of contracting this service, since it allows us to buy anything and receive it the next day, regardless of what it costs.
Amazon Prime is much more than enjoying free shipping, as it includes a series of very interesting features that really do make up for its low price.
- Access to the streaming video platform Prime Video with a large amount of original content that is not available on other platforms.
- Unlimited photo storage. Through Amazon Photos, we can store all the photos we want without reducing their resolution as Google Photos does. As for the videos, the space is limited to 5 GB.
- Free music through Amazon Prime Music, with access to more than 2 million songs.
- A monthly subscription to Twitch. If we are Twitch users, Prime allows us to enjoy a monthly subscription to any streamer.
- Free access to Prime Reading from any device to read books in electronic format.
