If you order 2 item to qualify for free shipping, do u have to wait for it to become available or u have to release for the 2nd release for the free shipping deal

You will have to wait until the entire order is available. It is extremely rare that Amazon will ship items seperately when you choose the free shipping option(they did it once for me and I've ordered a ton from Amazon over the years).

it depends on what you ordered, if your items are at different warehouses they'll send you the available item cause they would've been sent in separate packages anyway, however if both your items were DVDs you'll most likely have to wait

Yeah I ordered the new Family Guy DVD (pre-order) and a Weber Charcoal Starter at the same time to get free shipping. They sent the starter right away.

Do they have different warehouses in the same location? Because I had an order split that came from the same place.

Does anyone have any idea about why Free Super Saver Shipping is taking incredibly long all of a sudden? When I was living in Champaign for school, I could count on getting my items by Wednesday or Thursday of the week of release through UPS. Now, here in Highland Park, I'm waiting until Saturday or even Monday while the items slowly make their way through USPS. Is this simply because of the change in carrier (and if so can I state a preference even for free shipping?), or the bad weather in the East right now (my order of Arrested Development, The Fly, and Me, You, and Everyone we know seemed stranded in Philly for 3 days)? Just not looking forward to waiting for all the Batman discs when I have the day off on Friday and would love to watch.

The slowdown of super saver shipping happened right around the time their Prime program started. Coincidence....I think not.

Still can't complain much given it's free and I only order from them when I have GCs to use.

My Batman Begins Deluxe shipped today, should have it by release date. Also, I ordered Smallville S4... it shipped the next day. So for me, free shipping has not been slow at all. Has anybody even joined that Prime program? Seems like a rip to me.

I pre ordered Batman in mid september and actually paid for shipping as I didn't want anything else as I was using a GC and didn't care about paying $3 or whatever, and mine hasn't shipped yet and is estimated to arive the 22-24.

After seeing that I went to check on my Batman Begins SE preorder from back in August and it says shipping Oct 23rd with delivery estimate of Oct. 31st! Fuck that. I should've just let it come with my weekly DVDEmpire preorders which are always on my doorstep the following Monday. Two weeks waiting is not worth the $8. I'll have to pick it up on Tuesday at Best Buy now.

talk about crazy shipping, I placed an order when they were having that horror sale last week. I ordered 4 dvds. my order was broken into 2 shipments. 1 with 3 titles and 1 with 1. my shipping for both orders show shipping estimates of Oct. 25 even though everything is listed as "ships in 24hrs".

As far as I can tell Amazon shipping is completely erratic. I ordered Batman Begins 2 disc and Hondo (to qualify for free shipping) and it shipped the day after I ordered. Ordered 13 Oct shipped 14 Oct...go figure.

For the first time since STL was discontinued, I placed an order with Amazon earlier this week. The item showed as "usually ships within 24 hours" and indeed when I went to my shopping cart, it indicated that the item should ship on Oct 13 (the next day). Since the item was over $25, I then selected the free shipping - and IMMEDIATELY the expected shipping date was changed to Oct 18.

If I pull up the item right now, it STILL shows as "usually ships within 24 hours", but they are simply staring at my order, letting it sit there until the 18th, relegating me to a 2nd Class Customer status because I took them up on their free shipping.

That is an obnoxious way to do business, and their near-sighted approach will simply cause me to go back to my other sources.

Geez people, read Amazon's site.

The Free Super Saver Shipping page clearly states "Please note that your order will take an additional 3 to 5 days to ship." If you want it to ship quick, you need to pay or at least pre-order (I find that pre-orders ship very close to the release date if not before and for me usually arrive in 2 days with the Free shipping - granted that will vary based on your location).

Like I said, I have no problem with that. I have a problem with my Batman Begins preorder not being shipped until the 21-24 when I actually paid for shipping this time to get it faster.

So your p"ay or at least pre-order" theory is bunk, as I pre-ordered and paid. Their shipping is just a total crapshoot for everyone that's not a prime member. You never know how fast it's going to go our regardless of whether its in stock, a preorder or whether you pay or take free shipping.

That's why I only order from them when I have gc's to spend.

Ugh, I just went to cancel the amazon order and I can't since it says "shipping soon, item can't be changed or canceled". October 23rd as ship date is "shipping soon"? Well, I learned my lesson.

That begs the question as to why it takes an additional 3-5 days to ship. Amazon seems to be the only major site that discriminates this way. Take a look at DVD Empire as a model: I've ordered 3 (minimum # of items for free shipping) very inexpensive DVDs totaling LESS than $25, but they still ship out the same day if ordered by 3PM.

Amazon's policy is obviously trying to nudge people into paying for what OTHER sites offer as a matter of good customer service.

I just can't figure out the deal on my order at all. all 4 titles are listed as "ships in 24hrs". I placed my order on Oct. 10th. all 4 titles are listed as shipping on Oct. 25th. this is way beyond their claim of

They do this since they only send out the free super saver shipping orders in mass quantities a few times each week. If your order doesn't make it in the current "release" it's held until the next one later in the week. By mailing in bulk during these times it saves them money, but you have to wait a little longer and they prepare the items further in advance so that's why you can't cancel when you'd like to all the time.

OK, I'll have to take back my rant since I got a shipping confirmation on my Batman Begins order today (though it would've been nice to get out for release date). However I still doubt I will use their free shipping if they are going to give themselves the option of holding shipments a week before sending them out. It's the same reason I don't use DDD.

Mine with paid shipping finally shipped today. Estimated delivery on the 24th.

Maybe I'll luck out, sometimes I get things well before the estimate delivery date.

I decided to join Amazon Prime little over a month ago. I always get a shipping notice early on Sunday mornings. Always ships UPS and and I get them on Wednesday. I have atleast 1 pre-order a week so its $79/52 for Amazon's Prime. I have ordered other things without worrying about $25 min. Plus Amazon has been cheaper on pre-orders too. Well worth the $1.50 cost per week.

Guess I take my rant back, got mine today as well.

They just need to fix their estimated delivery methodology. Having the date in the e-mail the 24th when it came on the 19th is a bit to inaccurate.

Sometimes, you can get Amazon's Prime service on eBay, paying between just $30/$35 instead of the $79.00

I joined Amazon Prime last month also, and I preordered Batman Begins Deluxe and Lifeboat. It shows on the 'where's my stuff' page that the estimated ship date is the 18th, but here it is the 19th and they haven't shipped. Anyone have an idea what the problem may be?