Amazon Prime looking uncertain for South Africa

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Amazon Prime uncertainty in South Africa

The launch date for Amazon's Prime membership, which will provide South African customers with free two-day deliveries, access to Prime Video, and other benefits, is still unknown.

MyBroadband has asked the company for an update on its plans for the subscription on several occasions, but it has declined to provide further details.
 
Prime video has been available for some time
 
Jussus Daniel Pukette, Amazon Prime is never an uncertainty.

Would you rather watch DSTV with @MartinGB ?
 
Amazon Prime uncertainty in South Africa

The launch date for Amazon's Prime membership, which will provide South African customers with free two-day deliveries, access to Prime Video, and other benefits, is still unknown.

MyBroadband has asked the company for an update on its plans for the subscription on several occasions, but it has declined to provide further details.

When they have a certain critical mass of customers/turnover/catalog size then I would expect Prime to launch not much before that
 
I hear the SAPO are at a loose end. Maybe they could help out with this.:unsure:
I think they're only considered to be deliveries if the recipient receives the parcel? Is that something SAPO would be able to do...

EDIT - fwiw SAPO doesn't want to deliver anything themselves, they want to be paid when others deliver instead.
 
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People are already used to the R500 free delivery. Btw funny how they don't focus on the competition but their biggest competitor has a R500 threshold where others with a similar setup to them like Loot has R450 free delivery.

I would rather they have free international delivery.
 
My Amazon Prime account is on hold I was trying to buy a movie but the moment I tried paying they account was put on hold.

They want a copy of my bank statement and a copy of government ID

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My Amazon Prime account is on hold I was trying to buy a movie but the moment I tried paying they account was put on hold.

They want a copy of my bank statement and a copy of government ID

Has this happened to anyone else?View attachment 1712803
@epah please can we get that other guy to help? We need an expert hacker to validate that this is legit.
 
People are already used to the R500 free delivery. Btw funny how they don't focus on the competition but their biggest competitor has a R500 threshold where others with a similar setup to them like Loot has R450 free delivery.

I would rather they have free international delivery.

You can have free international delivery or flat rate. Daitool offers $15 flat rate FedEx delivery for example and free if you go over $150. Their prices are just inflated though, if you compare them to original prices.
 
I think they're only considered to be deliveries if the recipient receives the parcel? Is that something SAPO would be able to do...

EDIT - fwiw SAPO doesn't want to deliver anything themselves, they want to be paid when others deliver instead.

Funny thing SAPO outsource EMS deliveries now. I've had a private courier drop off an EMS delivery yesterday at 6pm.
 
You can have free international delivery or flat rate. Daitool offers $15 flat rate FedEx delivery for example and free if you go over $150. Their prices are just inflated though, if you compare them to original prices.
Can't find anything on them and does not sound like an Amazon thing.
 
Can't find anything on them and does not sound like an Amazon thing.

No, my point was that shipping can be free if they include it in the price. Daitool.com does that.

Some Ebay sellers actually ship for free and the item is then super expensive. I've also seen the opposite where the item is cheap and the shipping is expensive, seems they save on ebay fees that way. That would also save you some customs duty / vat as that's charged only on merchandise and not shipping.
 
No, my point was that shipping can be free if they include it in the price. Daitool.com does that.

Some Ebay sellers actually ship for free and the item is then super expensive. I've also seen the opposite where the item is cheap and the shipping is expensive, seems they save on ebay fees that way. That would also save you some customs duty / vat as that's charged only on merchandise and not shipping.
I'm talking about Amazon itself. In some countries you can get free international shipping on fulfilled by amazon orders and the threshold is rather minimal. Basically the stuff you'd look to source internationally. The reason they can do it is obviously that they benefit from consolidated shipping so you don't pay extra in the price.

 
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