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Is Amazon.com discouraging free shipping?

A couple of week ago, we placed a book order at Amazon, going over $25 in order to take advantage of free shipping. When I checked on the progress of our order the next day, Amazon said they weren’t going to be shipping the books for two weeks.
Not that the books would arrive in two [...]


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16 June 2005 @ 9pm

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Glass Cathedrals

(guest-posted by Mrs. 12frogs)
If Maggie Gallagher wants to know how we’ve come to the point where the Michael Jackson jury could “[take] days to go through the ‘ton of evidence’ …that obscured the essence of what this case was about: Do you believe the boy or not?”, then maybe she should re-familiarize herself with [...]


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2 June 2005 @ 9pm

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A Tale of Two Hardware Stores

Has True Value lost its mind? On their website, right under the prominently featured search field, it says: “True Value is no longer selling products online.”
Uh, so why do they still have a website?
Seriously. Say I see a Quick-Change Utility Knife on sale for $4.99, and decide I want it. I have to remember later, [...]


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