Free shipping day
One of my biggest peeves when shopping online is shipping charges. All too often sites will charge extra to ship to Hawaii, exclude us from free shipping offers, or won’t ship to Hawaii at all. However, this isn’t meant to be a rant, so I’ll save it for another day.
Freeshipping.org is a site that lists codes and offers for free shipping for a number of sites. They’re promoting Thursday, December 18, 2008 as Free Shipping Day, “when participating merchants give free shipping to online shoppers with guaranteed delivery by Christmas Eve.”
No guarantees if these companies will remember that Hawaii is in fact part of the United States, but it’s worth a look if you’re doing some last minute shopping.
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By the lone gunman, December 10, 2008 @ 11:35 am
In the past few years, I’ve only bought stuff from Amazon, and I’ve always gotten over $25 worth of stuff (sometimes with the help of Future Mrs. the lone gunman or co-workers). So that qulifies me for Free Super Saver Shipping. Though you have to wait a little longer… 10 verses 5 days? So what!? Ain’t no tax either… another plus to Amazon/on-line shopping. If I find something on sale for the same price on Amazon… I’ll buy it from them.
I guess it’s about time someone levelled the playing field on them…
By mangobay, December 10, 2008 @ 4:38 pm
I lived in Hawaii for 5 years and it was always a challenge finding reasonable shipping options. But as they say, necessity is the mother of invention, and when I moved to Denver, I thought I would offer a package forwarding service for my brethren in Hawaii and Alaska. Thus was born Aloha Forwarding (http://www.alohaforwarding.com).
Whenever you come across a merchant that either doesn’t ship to the non-continental U.S. or doesn’t offer Priority Mail service, just have it shipped to us and we’ll forward it to you via Priority Mail. You can save about 40% off the cost of shipping it direct. We even have a shipping calculator that will estimate how much you’ll save. Please check us out.