Adding an amazon gift card can up you to the $49 minimum just to be used later as well.

I would like to purchase an Apimaye bee hive. The add shows “free shipping” but now that I am at the payment screen, I see charges for shipping. What’s the deal?

Where is the other sellers button? Can’t find it.

I would like to add to this discussion that Amazon is playing games once again with what they are disclosing and omitting. I had prime membership for years but was fed up with all the hacking online. I stopped and closed out my account and a few months later I opened a new account but this time I only use gift cards. What I am finding is if the item says they meet the $25.00 minimum with Amazon handling the fullfilment in reality they will only honor this if the $25.00 are met with just one seller. They will not allow other vendors sales that do qualify for the free shipping for 25.00. The total of $25.00 now has to be from one vendor but they don’t say this anywhere you can read it. Only when you check out with gift card do you have any problems with them allowing you to move past the payment option. What Amazon is not getting is that I am contacting online retailers directly and explaining the problem of so much hacking and wanting to send a check instead and what I am finding out is many of the biggest retailers and smaller ones too are accepting my checks for payment. So I really am finding other online options. Even Amazon has been hacked! State and federal agencies have been hacked. Equifax breach in 2017 was supposedly hacked by Chinese government hackers which is over 60% of all credit files. We leave our files frozen since experts warned all of our data will be sold on the dark web. Then if you do get hacked the lame class action lawsuit will only provide $125.00 in assistance and they say don’t bet on the money being there when you need it. Also $125.00 won’t pay for attorney fees if you legal help either. With industrial military complex beating the war drums about China I wonder why Homeland Security just watched this Equifax hack go down which affect 149 million Americans or over 60% of all credit files for Americans . . . and didn’t pull plug? Homeland Security had to inform Equifax it was hacked they were so bad in securing our data. Is this propaganda to get Americans angry with China to fund a protracted war with China at the tune of trillions? Semi conductor plants around the U.S. are opening back up for production so we don’t need to save Taiwan because of chips like we are hearing in the news. Then why are we spending so much money on saving Taiwan and we do nothing for Sudan or ______? But I do worry that Amazon has made several fortunes from selling Chinese fakes and helped Xi fund his military and using political prisoners to make the cheap goods for Amazon and their vendors. Why couldn’t we fund U.S. manufacturing instead and actually make things here and not put ourselves at more risk of supply chain issues we learned the hard way during the pandemic. Amazon had to have known about the pandemic long before the U.S. public did with all their Chinese connections but kept silent. The investigative reports were showing by August 2019 the first signs of the pandemic was showing up in China. Who knows maybe our CIA wanted to humiliate China and planted the virus? They have done much worse. Why would Fauci contract China lab for bioweapons research with a lab that was not certified for that level of dangerous research? Why would he contract with a known enemy to research a bioweapon? Was omicron in Africa the fire break? Africa was not having any problems with covid and no vaccines and no tracking so a perfect place for omicron to show up and no way to trace to patient zero. Why wouldn’t omicron evolve where covid was affecting large numbers in China or the U.S. and given way more opportunity to mutate? The narrative doesn’t make any sense. Also we are finding out from Muddy Waters report that the DOD or department of defense was the one who ordered the vaccines. So this was a military operation with the vaccines not the NIH or CDC or FDA or ______. Will the next major hack take down the banks completely since they already are getting hacked to the tune of billions a year and won’t say how much otherwise customers would pull their money. Is having your money only available by using easily hacked debit and credit card numbers a smart thing since if they get hacked no way to access your money. Some use their phones which is another easy target. Now Apple wants to be your bank which is a really bad idea from this retired commercial banker. Money can be erased digitally but harder to make real money evaporate. If it were so safe why is all the hacking happening? No one seems concerned that this is a risky proposition but a new normal. Have you asked your bank what they will do if the major banks get hacked to the point they need to shut down and how will you access your funds while they figure out how bad the damage was? Hacking just doesn’t happen to one bank since the system is all inter connected so when one falls others will fall with it because they are all borrowing from each other. Remember the lines outside of the Silicon Valley bank and how they made customers wait days to pull out their money. What if they needed gas or groceries or ____ during that time? A huge hack won’t be so easily remedied either. The feds are already short on money but they keep printing up more money. I can see the feds not being able to actually cover the losses immediately and customers will have to wait while the politicians try to outsmart each other about rescuing consumers from a mostly unregulated banking system. Next time will they just let stockholders lose or will it have to be a percentage of the money with consumers? When I closed my first Amazon account they listed several reasons why we are closing the account. I checked the box for security so Amazon knows this is a big problem with smart consumers who are taking this seriously but still not doing enough. They want easy fast cheap transactions and your security is an after thought. Instead online companies are collecting all that data and collating it and putting it up in the clouds so hackers can get a nice bundle of all your data in one easy sweep. How does that remotely sound like a good idea? Collecting our data is not really making anything but actually a business plan to sell your privacy. Kind of creepy. I would love to pick up my items at a local Amazon warehouse not some lonesome locker that can be targeted by thieves. I would love to show up at a warehouse and order the item there and pay cash then come back and pick up the items rather than leaving them on my door step for the porch pirates. Sears did that long ago and it worked… Read more »