In Response to Jackie Bunker . . .

In Jackie’s post about Amazon’s shipping service called Amazon Prime that guarantees every product purchased will be shipped within two days maximum. The cost to the shopper is only $79, but is supposed to be free for the first year for students. While shopping for textbooks this semester I went through Amazon and wanted to use this new way of getting faster shipping for free. But, when I tried to sign up I was unable because you needed a .edu email address for students and keene’s email is @ksc.mailcruiser.com.

To combat this I signed up for the 30-day trail for the Amazon Prime and tried upgrading my order, but I was unable to get an updated shipping time because I had ordered all my books used (because they were cheaper.) In the end I was just frustrated and did not get any better deal on shipping. I think that shoppers need to be wary of signing up for “bargains” like this one because do you really save more than $79 for getting your purchase a day earlier? Do you think that this is a good marketing ploy to get shoppers to waste their money?