Amazon Offers 2-Day Shipping For $79/Year

stevejsmith writes "Amazon.com has announced their Amazon Prime service. For $79, you get free two-day shipping on all items, upgradeable to overnight shipping for $3.99 per item. The offer applies to most media (books, DVDs, CDs, etc.) and can be shared among "up to four family members living in the same household." Apparently the only way they will enforce this family-only sharing clause is by mandating that your "family members" know your birthday."

Amazon Prime?

[American AC in Paris]

Unless it can transform from a tractor-trailer into a bow-wielding vixen, I'm not interested.

Amazon Prime?

[techsoldaten]

Does Amazon Prime compete with Optimus for leadership of the Autobots?

Perhaps he is the UPS truck to Optimus's tractor trailer?

M

Uh Oh

[nightterror]

Im in enough trouble trying to remember my wifes birthday as it is....

silly

[AtariAmarok]

....it is tech news because someone could use Amazon to order a TI Graphing calculator. Silly question.

Know my birthday?

[FingerDemon]

Well, that eliminates my family from participating.

That would never work!

[Mr Guy]

No, because you'd have to tell them all your birthday! See? It's FOOLPROOF.

Erm... Yeah... Nevermind.

WTF?? "For $79, you get free"

[Anonymous Coward]

For $79, you get free

It's amazing how marketing has managed to distort the English language. Hey, I'll work for Free/Hr.

This should be in shop.slashdot.org

[GillBates0]

News for Shoppers. Ways to save.

Re:WTF?? "For $79, you get free"

[Anonymous Coward]

Note that the $79.00 "Free" can be upgraded for $3.99

Peer review

[October_30th]

Hey, I submitted the above story. How come mine didn't get posted?

As everybody here knows, Slashdot adheres to a strict peer review standard for each and every one of the submitted stories. It is just impossible that your story would be rejected unfairly.

Ok. Maybe that was just a dream I had last night.

Re:Peer review

[Reignking]

Re-submit in two days. I'm sure they'll repost it.

Re:Amazon Prime?

[American AC in Paris]

I'm not sure I want my bow-weilding vixens to be transforming into tractor-trailers anyway...

...but think all the double entendre fun you could have!

"Wait 'till you get inside! Cozy, yet surprisingly roomy!"
"I'm into leather. Heated seats, too..."
"It's very pleasant in the rear--I could spend all day there!"
"I enjoy sex with motor vehicles!"

(uh--scratch that last one.)

Shhhhh!

[winkydink]

You're not supposed to do the math!

Amazon Prime?

[Have Blue]

Was anyone else expecting a first-person adventure game based on the venerable Amazon series?

Re:Free shipping is the way to go on big ticket it

[GigsVT]

And wouldn't it have made more sense to just buy a wedding dress at the first store they went to, even if it cost $400 more? :)

Re:WTF?? "For $79, you get free"

[Anonymous Coward]

Ever gone college hunting?

Yup - landed one too. But once we got it home, we couldn't figure out how to cook it. It was easy to catch - we used cases of beer for bait.

Re:Work address

[TheViffer]

Who cares.

I can go buy my 1300 pound shipped JL421 Badonkadonk Land Cruiser/Tank [amazon.com] happly knowing that shipping will run me $79!

Great...

[dmarx]

Now I can't tell any non-family my birthday without Amazon suing me for breaking their copy protection.

Re:Not a bad deal if you always want it NOW

[captaincucumber]

I'm compulsive too, and I discovered this place called "a store". All you have to do is drive there, and you get your stuff immediately, not in 2 days. Shipping is free.

Re:Shhhhh!

[Anonymous Coward]

Anything that screws over walmart is good in my book :)

Huh? Let's see drive to walmart get widget for $3 in an 20-30 minutes (commute + checkout time) or pay $2 and wait 2 days for it to be shipped to me? I think I'll go to walmart instead. Personally, anything that walmart crushes is good in my book :)