In answer to the "Free Shipping" question, Amazon has automatic free shipping in Electronics, Cameras on all items and over $100 purchase in Kitchen this month.
To the person who wants to 'screw' Amazon. Your reasoning is biased. Just because they have cancelled orders of yours doesn't mean they cancel all orders. Most everybody has lost some of the orders they placed as Amazon has run out of stock in items.
Lots of stores sell our info--if you don't want it out there use a web certificate.
Like any place else, they are expensive on some things and a bargain on others...do your homework. We could make a huge thread just listing the bargains we have received, and everyone has some if they have been ordering in the last couple of weeks. I have passed on a number of items that looked good at first glance and were last years news. Some of my things have come very dusty, so they are cleaning out warehouses somewhere.
I know they are losing a bundle on shipping. There is no way they can make money when someone order 80 bungee cords at $.08 each (me) and they ship them in 8 different boxes!! UPS Priority no less. You don't have to play games, they are doing it to themselves and I have the empty boxes to prove it. Even when I go back and combine orders to "save on shipping", they still send everything in bits and pieces.
I have a small theory as to some of the cancellations. Amazon seems to have a good handle on some of their stock, ie items slipping out of the basket in mid-order. On other things, you can order as many as you want for days and then it may take days for your order to be cancelled. It could be that some items are done as speculation by them and once they get a large amount of orders, they group them and order the lot all at once from whatever supplier they have contracted with. That might explain why these later cancellations don't come in first in/first out order. My example being when I order the $.98 baskets ($13 at Walmart), I placed three orders and it took them a week to ship. They cancelled my first and third order and sent the one I place in the middle.
whew, my fingers are tired. Too much Drambui last night...