$1 Amazon Instant Video credit w/ No Rush Shipping (Prime only)

[kyleschmitty]

I've made a few purchases recently (Blu's and DVD's) and it says get a $1 Amazon Instant Video credit when choosing No Rush Shipping..

Thought I should share.. here is the rundown:

About FREE No-Rush Shipping

Choose FREE No-Rush Shipping and we’ll automatically apply a $1 Amazon Instant Video credit to your account once your order ships.

You can use this credit by logging on to Amazon.com or going to the Amazon Instant Video app on your smart phone, tablet, TV, or streaming video device. You can choose a movie or TV show from our catalog by clicking Rent or Buy.

Your order with No-Rush Shipping will arrive in 5 - 7 business days. This No-Rush credit expires on October 31, 2014. Terms and Conditions apply.

Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=201537720&pop-up=1&ref=ox_shipoption_promodetails

If this isn't something new.. my apologies...

[MoulinBlu]

They've offered this off and on for years. I think they use it mostly during the holiday buying season, though they just activated it again about a month or two ago - so they must be getting a headstart. Never thought it was very enticing myself, so I've never done it, especially when some have reported their non-prime no rush shipping as being beyond slow with an increased risk of damage. I'd be more tempted by 25 cent off my next order or something. But that'd be about 25cent more than what this offer is costing them, so it likely won't happen.

[strumdogg]

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=245936

[kyleschmitty]

Originally Posted by strumdogg

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=245936

I even searched "no rush shipping" and nothing was there

[SlipcoverLover]

lol yeah right $1 video credit that can't stack. their digital video store is expensive as hell. $1 is nothing. plus you have to wait like a week for "regular/non-prime" shipping. I'm too spoiled to get my stuff in 2 weekdays.

[strumdogg]

Originally Posted by kyleschmitty

I even searched "no rush shipping" and nothing was there

No worries; it happens. Just wanted to point it out.

[jd31]

Originally Posted by SlipcoverLover

lol yeah right $1 video credit that can't stack. their digital video store is expensive as hell. $1 is nothing. plus you have to wait like a week for "regular/non-prime" shipping. I'm too spoiled to get my stuff in 2 weekdays.

FWIW, I haven't had any issues stacking the credits. Just used $10 of credits that I had accumulated through this promotion to purchase a movie.

[michaeljoo]

Originally Posted by SlipcoverLover

lol yeah right $1 video credit that can't stack. their digital video store is expensive as hell. $1 is nothing. plus you have to wait like a week for "regular/non-prime" shipping. I'm too spoiled to get my stuff in 2 weekdays.

Originally Posted by jd31

FWIW, I haven't had any issues stacking the credits. Just used $10 of credits that I had accumulated through this promotion to purchase a movie.

Yes, I haven't redeemed any credits yet this round, but in the past I've not had any problems stacking the credits either.

In the past I think the terms indicated something along the lines of not being able to stack credits, but you could.

I don't see anything in the current language in the terms and conditions about this anymore.

[michaeljoo]

On another note, has anyone not been receiving their promotional credits?

I got 6 in the first half or so of August. But since then I've made about 4 more orders and haven't received the promo credits for those yet.

With the first 6, I would get the promo credit email at the same time as the shipping notification email.

But with the last 4 orders, I've gotten the shipping notifications (and in some cases have actually received the product) but still no promo credit email.

I looked at the terms and I don't see anything in there that would have made my orders ineligible. Nothing about max limits on how many a person can get or how many in a certain time frame, only that it ends at the end of Oct.

Any thoughts?

Or anyone else not receiving their promo credits?

[Slyth66]

Just FYI, Lifehacker recently had an article on how to get this deal with multiple items and still (maybe) get two day shipping.

Break your purchase up into individual orders, then choose No Rush shipping on all but the last one, leave that one as Prime shipping. That way, you'll have multiple $1 credits and it's likely Amazon will still ship all of your packages together with the 2-day shipping to make it easier on them.

[michaeljoo]

Originally Posted by Slyth66

Just FYI, Lifehacker recently had an article on how to get this deal with multiple items and still (maybe) get two day shipping.

Break your purchase up into individual orders, then choose No Rush shipping on all but the last one, leave that one as Prime shipping. That way, you'll have multiple $1 credits and it's likely Amazon will still ship all of your packages together with the 2-day shipping to make it easier on them.

LOL, that's clever and makes sense.

With this promo I have just gotten to dividing all my orders to include only 1 item each to maximize the number of credits I get. But I have noticed that sometimes AMZ will bundle multiple orders together in 1 shipment if they were placed around the same time.

Earlier on in the promo I purposely not only separated my items into separate orders but also spaced the orders out by a few days to decrease the chances that they would ship out the items together. I'm not sure why, but for some reason I wondered if they shipped out the items together they might only give me the credit once for the entire shipment and not for each individual item/order.

I think at some point I realized that was not the case, they give you the $1 credit for each separate order even if they ship out together. I'll still probably set everything to no rush shipping to get the max number of credits, especially now that the credits can be used for physical books.

[michaeljoo]

Just a reminder, I believe the AIV credits from this promo expire tomorrow, so if you haven't used it yet, you should do so soon.

I believe the book credits that they replaced this with expire 12/31 so you still have time to spend those.

[Clark Kent]

The book credits stack and they work on graphic novels of any stripe.

[fronk777]

Originally Posted by Clark Kent

The book credits stack and they work on graphic novels of any stripe.

This can be used for books?

[michaeljoo]

Originally Posted by fronk777

This can be used for books?

No, the video credits that they awarded earlier in the promo only work for AIV videos.

However, sometime maybe in Sept or Oct they switched the promo credit you could earn from video credits to book credits. The book credits can be used on digital or physical books.

I believe both types of credits stack, but they can only be used in their respective categories, they are not interchangeable.

Unfortunatetly, I'm not sure what to get with my video credits. I have $11 in credit and was thinking of getting BSG S1 in SD when it was $9.99. I hestitated because I wasn't sure if I should spend my credits on the SD version instead of holding out for a HD version at some point.

In the end I finally decided just to go ahead and get the SD version, but now it is no longer on sale.

Now I'm considering The Following S1 (SD) but I'm not sure.