Amazon (UK)
Oct. 16th, 2008 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
inulroAmazon have just lowered their postage-free order limit to £5.
At first I thought it was very exciting.
Then I thought that they're shooting themselves in the foot a bit - how many times have you added an extra item so as to avoid paying postage?
Then I realised that as a vendor on Amazon this is bad news. Everything that I'm selling for enough to make more than 50p on, by the time my buyer adds postage, will probably be cheaper to buy the item direct rather than through a re-seller.
At first I thought it was very exciting.
Then I thought that they're shooting themselves in the foot a bit - how many times have you added an extra item so as to avoid paying postage?
Then I realised that as a vendor on Amazon this is bad news. Everything that I'm selling for enough to make more than 50p on, by the time my buyer adds postage, will probably be cheaper to buy the item direct rather than through a re-seller.
