Great Amazon feature!

OK, you guys may not be as happy as I am about this, but it is a feature I have longed wished for at Amazon.com. Maybe it was there and I’ve missed it, but I know I’ve looked for it before, so I think it may be fairly new – at least in the last year.

What’s that? You want me to get to the point? LOL Alright, then…

See, I have a lot of pre-orders at Amazon.com and I often order items as I notice them. Many of those pre-ordered items end up releasing on the same date, and so I’ve had a bunch of different orders shipped separately but arriving the same day. Well, that wastes money on shipping, packing material, and is tedious to keep track of.

You don’t want to delete and re-order items, because then you might end up paying a higher price due to Amazon’s pre-order pricing policy which affords you the lowest price the item was ever priced at between the time you placed the order and the date it actually shipped.

They now have a function to Combine Orders! Not only does this save on shipping and reduce the number of boxes that have to be signed for on the receiving end, it makes it much easier for me to see my pre-ordered items at a glance, since it organizes items shipping on the same date by that date. Now I can easily see if I’ve accidentally ordered two copies of Lora Leigh’s upcoming book Dawn’s Awakening, or just the one. I can also see at a glance how many items to expect a charge for at once.

How do you do it? Very easily. Just log into Amazon.com, go to the Your Account area, and look in the top section titled Where’s My Stuff for the link to Combine Orders. Then you are moved to an area where you can check the option box next to all of the orders you wish to combine.