{"id":6969,"date":"2005-02-02T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/amazon-prime\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:32:56","slug":"amazon-prime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2005\/02\/02\/amazon-prime\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Prime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I think of this&#8230; Amazon is now offering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/subs\/primeclub\/signup\/main.html\/ref=amb_promo_177981_1\/102-4455134-9460915\">Amazon Prime<\/a>, where you pay US$79\/year, and all your shipments are sent from Amazon with two-day shipping for free. Well, free after the US$79\/year.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this could actually be a boon to people who order a lot of things from Amazon&#8230; I&#8217;m considering signing up myself, then ordering all my CDs and DVDs from there. Typically I don&#8217;t order because I don&#8217;t want to pay for quick shipping, and I don&#8217;t want to order enough things to get free shipping. Also, free shipping has a bit of a wait.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about it, one can figure that this would be a flat-rate $2 for second day shipping on your first 40 items. This is a good price if one orders that much stuff from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I really would order more stuff from Amazon. I think I would, as Amazon&#8217;s prices are almost always cheaper than other local alternatives for music and DVDs.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I think of this&#8230; Amazon is now offering Amazon Prime, where you pay US$79\/year, and all your shipments are sent from Amazon with two-day shipping for free. Well, free after the US$79\/year. I think that this could actually be a boon to people who order a lot of things from Amazon&#8230;\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14660,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6969\/revisions\/14660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}