FillerItem.com for Amazon

[GA Russell]

Here's something I learned about today for those Amazon shoppers who do not have Prime.

http://filleritem.com/

Here's what dailyfinance.com says about it:

Amazon: FillerItem.com

So you set up your alert on that video game, and today you finally got an email informing you that it had dropped below your $30 threshold.

But wait! It went all the way down to $23.90. And since Amazon's free-shipping threshold is $25, that means that you'll have to pay a $4 for shipping. You're faced with the bizarre situation of wishing that the product was a little more expensive so that you could get it for less.

Now there's an easy solution: FillerItem.com helps you find small, cheap items to get you to the free-shipping cutoff. Put in how many dollars or cents short of $25 your cart is, and it will return a list of "filler items" of that price or higher. In this case, we're only $1.10 short, and FillerItem offers a list of a hundreds of tiny items. Many, you probably don't need, like pipe adapters and screws; for a buck and change, you could add one to your cart and then throw it away.

But if you want something you could use, FillerItem puts in bold any item in your price range that's popular on Amazon. For $1.18, for instance, you can get a 12-pack of Bic pens. So, throw in a box of pens, get your total to $25.08, and save a few bucks on shipping.

[sonnymax]

[felser]

I keep some cheap CD's on hold in my cart to fill out orders to $25.

[jazzbo]

I sprang for Prime for the first time this year. It's been great, especially since I have been ordering some medical type things for my parents, and the shipping on those is high. Prime makes it easy to choose an item and more affordable.

I stumbled across this filler site years ago but it really didn't help me much.

[GA Russell]

I took the trial two-month Prime membership for Christmas, 2011.

I did it again for Christmas, 2012, and this time when it expired I signed up for the year's membership.

I can't think of a time when I needed something in two days. But there have been a couple of times when I ordered from a Marketplace Seller and the item never arrived, so they had to send another one. Such an experience takes weeks to be resolved.

So Prime's service makes me comfortable because I will know promptly if there is a delivery problem.

Edited August 21, 2013 by GA Russell