More Tips on Buying from Amazon

After I blogged on AmazonGlobal Saver Free Shipping to Singapore on Purchases Over USD125 (you should read this other posting first before reading this if you haven't read it yet), the pageviews on my blog suddenly shot up, seems like many of my friends couldn't resist shopping? But then again, I didn't make my blog site known on my FB until now when I used Blogger to share about shopping on Amazon with free shipping to Singapore.

If it is your first time trying to buy from Amazon and want to ship via AmazonGlobal Saver Free Shipping to Singapore, you may wish to read the following tips as well:

1. Ensure that you only select items that are "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com". If you select an item that is not sold by Amazon, including those that said "Fulfilled by Amazon", it is very highly possible that such item is not eligible for free shipping.

You would have to take particular attention, especially when you choose an item from the list of filtered items that are "AmazonGlobal Eligible" and when you launched that item page, you realised that there are other colours available, which you start thinking of buying the item in your favourite colour, but before you do so, do check it out if other colour options are also sold by Amazon, which sometimes may not be the case and probably why those colour options did not appear in the filtered list in the first place. Besides the difference in colour options, the price is also different, and those sold by Amazon are generally more cost effective.

Take the example below, only the black one is sold by Amazon and thus, is eligible for free shipping while the blue and green ones are not eligible for free shipping.

However, not all "AmazonGlobal Eligible" and "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com" items are eligible for free shipping even if your purchase is over USD125, read the other Amazon posting to find out how you can determine if an item is eligible for free shipping. I hope Amazon can do something about it and make shopping less painful for us, then again, maybe it's a deterrent for us not to buy too much, lol! 

2. If you need some of the items urgently, you may wish to avoid eligible items that state certain delivery lead time as it would take much longer for your order to be shipped out.

3. I would not recommend using Amazon's exchange rate as I personally feel that the rate is less attractive than your credit card rate (unless your credit card is from a bank that charges high admin fees).

4. Do not spend more than total SGD400, which this amount includes the items charges and shipping fees, as you would need to pay for GST if you spend beyond that. If your purchase is eligible for AmazonGlobal Saver Free shipping, just need to ensure that the items charges do not exceed SGD400 and set a higher exchange rate for USD to SGD, just to be on the safe side.

5. If you would really like to get an item that can be shipped internationally but not eligible for free shipping, you may wish to purchase this particular item separately. There is no point lumping all the items together in one purchase and pay shipping for items that are eligible for free shipping just so that you can get this item as well? Of course, you can try your luck to get Amazon staff to help you waive off the entire shipping fees, questioning them that that particular item is AmazonGlobal Eligible, and hence, there should not be any shipping charge, but no one can guarantee the success rate of doing so. If you are purchasing that particular item separately, you can check it out if there's any on-going Amazon spree on singaporemotherhood forum as it's often more economical to poll orders to share out the shipping charges.

Hopefully the information I shared on this post helps as well. :)