Author Topic: Amazon Prime Pantry (Read 19292 times)

wayfe · « **on:** November 30, 2014, 12:31:17 PM »

Do you ever use Prime Pantry?

Are there any good deals to justify to the $5.99 shipping fee?

They are currently offering one free pantry box when you add 3 select items to your Pantry box
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1002995531&pf_rd_p=1980301442&pf_rd_s=merchandised-search-2&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=7301146011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0GPG6VT99AXVGQH6APQ1&ref_=acs_ux_hsb_5s_3_m_pntry_strfrnt

DP7 · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2015, 08:07:14 AM »

New offer for no rush shipping is 5.99 prime pantry credit. No more video credits.

sruly · « **Reply #2 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:25:54 AM »

Seems to good to be true ?

Typo ? maybe its supposed to be .99 credit ?

Dan · « **Reply #3 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:26:12 AM »

Quote from: sruly on March 25, 2015, 09:25:54 AM

Seems to good to be true ?

Typo ? maybe its supposed to be .99 credit ?

See DDMS

puddles · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:26:55 AM »

Quote from: Dan on March 25, 2015, 09:26:12 AM

See DDMS

just did my first order. Got the Credit. Now I need to find things that I NEED to buy and get some credits. Shame my S&S just went out

sruly · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:31:06 AM »

Quote from: Dan on March 25, 2015, 09:26:12 AM

See DDMS

I did.

I just dont understand how its sustainable to give practicably a %100 rebate on small orders.

sruly · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:51:30 AM »

Quote from: Dan on March 25, 2015, 09:26:12 AM

See DDMS

Update: Buried on the 2nd page of terms is this:
A maximum of $5.99 per Prime Pantry order can be redeemed from this Offer.
So there’s no limit to how many $5.99 credits you can earn, but you can only redeem one per order.

So now it makes sense as they are basically giving you free shipping on Pantry orders (still a good deal but nowhere near as lucrative)

AsherO · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2015, 09:53:27 AM »

Prime pantry is a scam to squeeze $6 more out of Prime members for items that should have free shipping. It's an "enhanced" version of "add-on item" which Amazon first used to circumvent Prime members getting small/cheap items with free 2-day shipping.

As far as Amazon shopping goes, Amazon keeps diluting the value of Prime. Granted when it comes to content (books/video/music) they added stuff to Prime all the time, if you only use Prime for the shopping benefits it's irrelevant.

yuneeq · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:16:07 AM »

Quote from: AsherO on March 25, 2015, 09:53:27 AM

Prime pantry is a scam to squeeze $6 more out of Prime members for items that should have free shipping. It's an "enhanced" version of "add-on item" which Amazon first used to circumvent Prime members getting small/cheap items with free 2-day shipping.

As far as Amazon shopping goes, Amazon keeps diluting the value of Prime. Granted when it comes to content (books/video/music) they added stuff to Prime all the time, if you only use Prime for the shopping benefits it's irrelevant.

I will never understand Amazon's terrible business strategy of bundling completely unrelated services together.

Prime bundles free shipping, a music/video service, and photo storage.
Amazon Fire, a (terrible) phone that comes with a year of free shipping.

As a customer, when Amazon first bundled "free' video streaming to Prime, and then raised the price, I felt like I was scammed.
Same about the Fire phone. Instead of offering "free year of Prime", just lower the price.
Why bundle something completely unrelated which raises the price?

AsherO · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2015, 10:40:25 AM »

Quote from: yuneeq on March 25, 2015, 10:16:07 AM

I will never understand Amazon's terrible business strategy of bundling completely unrelated services together.

Prime bundles free shipping, a music/video service, and photo storage.
Amazon Fire, a (terrible) phone that comes with a year of free shipping.

As a customer, when Amazon first bundled "free' video streaming to Prime, and then raised the price, I felt like I was scammed.
Same about the Fire phone. Instead of offering "free year of Prime", just lower the price.
Why bundle something completely unrelated which raises the price?

The bundling of Prime actually makes sense to me, it's kinda like an Amazon loyalty program, and an opportunity to introduce you to their other revenue streams (e.g. Kindle, Fire, VOD etc.).

snagger · « **Reply #10 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:16:39 AM »

Honestly, i'm really not getting why this is all that good of a deal.. It appears that all you get is free shipping on a prime pantry order.. Prime pantry even with free shipping is a ripoff.. Dan in the comments on DDMS pretty much agrees that you can't stack them together and isn't sure if you can use it together with a free shipping promo to get a discount on the items..

wayfe · « **Reply #11 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:37:55 AM »

There are actually some items that are cheapest through Prime Pantry.

I recently checked my local grocery, and shoprite- Heinz ketchup (Charmin Ultrasoft tissues were also cheapest) was almost $1 cheaper through prime pantry. Of course you'd need to order quite a few to justify the shipping price, but now with the credit it'll be worth it.

AsherO · « **Reply #12 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:55:04 AM »

Quote from: snagger on March 25, 2015, 11:16:39 AM

Honestly, i'm really not getting why this is all that good of a deal.. It appears that all you get is free shipping on a prime pantry order.. Prime pantry even with free shipping is a ripoff.. Dan in the comments on DDMS pretty much agrees that you can't stack them together and isn't sure if you can use it together with a free shipping promo to get a discount on the items..

What free shipping promo?

snagger · « **Reply #13 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:59:16 AM »

Quote from: AsherO on March 25, 2015, 11:55:04 AM

What free shipping promo?

No clue, i was just quoting Dan,

sruly · « **Reply #14 on:** March 25, 2015, 11:59:44 AM »

Quote from: AsherO on March 25, 2015, 11:55:04 AM

What free shipping promo?

OP original post

jackofall · « **Reply #15 on:** March 25, 2015, 12:22:18 PM »

Quote from: snagger on March 25, 2015, 11:16:39 AM

Honestly, i'm really not getting why this is all that good of a deal.. It appears that all you get is free shipping on a prime pantry order.. Prime pantry even with free shipping is a ripoff.. Dan in the comments on DDMS pretty much agrees that you can't stack them together and isn't sure if you can use it together with a free shipping promo to get a discount on the items..

Pantry has lots of items that are cheaper than other big stores ie. Walmart, target, Costco. Just like everywhere else, not all items are cheap. Do your homework.

JosephM · « **Reply #16 on:** March 25, 2015, 01:02:43 PM »

I'm confused by this quote from DDMS

Chaim Says:
3
March 25th, 2015 at 9:28 am

The credits can stack together?

“A maximum of $5.99 per Prime Pantry order can be redeemed from this Offer”

then Dan answers:

@Chaim:
Indeed

It seems to me that Dan is saying that the $5.99 credit can indeed stack together but the post clearly says they can't be stacked. And why is Dan's emoji so sad?

ETA: Okay, so I read it over and it seems as if these credits cannot be stacked and the "indeed" must have been answering some other question, not the "The credits can stack together?"

DP7 · « **Reply #17 on:** March 25, 2015, 03:17:22 PM »

Quote from: JosephM on March 25, 2015, 01:02:43 PM

And why is Dan's emoji so sad?

emoji's really like stackable codes.

grodnoking · « **Reply #18 on:** March 25, 2015, 03:21:11 PM »

Quote from: DP7 on March 25, 2015, 03:17:22 PM

emoji's really like stackable codes.

When codes dont stack

Ergel · « **Reply #19 on:** March 25, 2015, 03:50:13 PM »

Annoyed at this new "promotion". Now I can't get video credits anymore