# Abusing Amazon Prime?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusing-amazon-prime/937208>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 5, 2021, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusing-amazon-prime/937208 "2021-03-05T00:06:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2021, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusing-amazon-prime/937208/41 "2021-03-06T21:36:36Z")

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Hawaii here too - Hi Carol. Practically a necessity here. Amazon went from one aircraft a week to a daily 747/767/other big plane. UPS is the same.

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusing-amazon-prime/937208/42 "2021-03-07T16:10:54Z")

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> [@Bill\_Door](#):
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> I will break single orders into multiple orders to take advantage of the $1 digital credit policy. I don’t make the rules, I just try to work with them. That strikes me as abuse adjacent, but fuck Bezos.

Don’t feel bad. How you order doesn’t affect how they choose to box your items. I get boxes that contain multiple order all the time. It’s pretty clear they put whatever is on hand and going to the same address in a box and send it off, regardless of whether the order came in all together or in three separate check outs.

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusing-amazon-prime/937208/43 "2021-03-07T16:38:42Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> I get boxes that contain multiple order all the time.

Ditto - yesterday morning I placed 4 individual orders for same-day delivery, and I received all 4 items in 1 envelope by 3pm.

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusing-amazon-prime/937208/44 "2021-03-07T23:14:00Z")

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I “subscribe” to cat food and litter from Amazon, and I’ve also noticed that if I order some other random item a week before the scheduled delivery date (that is, beyond the window to cancel the automatic shipment), they’ll just send me the auto-ship items early, packaged with the other thing I ordered.

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**Post date:** [March 7, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abusing-amazon-prime/937208/45 "2021-03-07T23:38:19Z")

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If you are creating a new account each time, then that is abuse.

If they are offering it to you, knowing that you have cancelled it in the past, then I see nothing wrong with that.

As to the OP, I regularly order stuff that I need for work. I used to have to go to the store to pick up stuff, and now I just click a couple of buttons and have it show up.

I feel a little weird getting computer paper or cotton balls delivered, but they offer it, so there you go.

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