In 2010-2011 when Amazon was fighting Marc Lore’s Diapers.com for diaper dominance they offered 30% off diapers and additional codes in magazines that allowed people to get dozens of free cases of diapers.
After Lore was forced to sell out to Amazon, the Amazon discount dropped to 20%, required a Prime membership, and then required a subscription for the savings.
Luckily, the subscription was able to be expedited.
Going forward, Amazon will only give a 5% subscription discount on diapers, unless you have Prime Family membership and receive at least 5 or more subscription items in your order. If you have less than 5 subscription items in your order you’ll only get 5% off diapers, though if you add more subscription items to your order then the 20% off savings will be applied retroactively.
If you order more than 1 case of diapers at a time you can make a separate subscription for each one and each will count towards the 5 items required.
It can definitely make sense to add cheap filler subscription items before your items ship each month. If you have 5 items then you will get 15% off instead of 5% off most items and you will get 20% off diapers.
Good filler items include:
- Suave Skin Solutions Body Lotion: $1.40 with under 5 items or $1.25 with 5+ items.
- Suave Antiperspirant Deodorant, Shower Fresh: $1.43 with under 5 items or $1.28 with 5+ items.
- Earth’s Natural 6″ Plate, 20 Pack $1.55 with under 5 items or $1.39 with 5+ items.
- S. Ives Even & Bright Body Wash (Pink Lemon and Mandarin Orange) is a good filler item at just $2.78 with under 5 items or $2.49 with 5+ items.
- DenTek Fresh Clean Floss Pick, 75 Count $2.84 with under 5 items or $2.54 with 5+ items.
What filler items do you use to get to 5 subscription items?
after talking to amazon , “as long as you don’t change your S&S and you had the item there before the change you will still get the %20 off on dippers ‘
what if i have a s&s but will like to change the delivery date ?
i will loos the 20% ?
This should be true. I have a few really old S&S items from the good old days when everything was 15% off. They still show as 15%, even on months when I have less than 5 items.
“If you order more than 1 case of diapers at a time you can make a separate subscription for each one and each will count towards the 5 items required.”
If this is true- then can’t we just avoid the whole filler item thing by just ordering 5 cases of diapers?? Each as a separate subscription? That would solve this whole problem, no? Sure 5 cases is a lot, but in many cases you’ll need them eventually anyway…
Yes you can do this, I do it all the time. Then if I find additional items I want in the month, I can cancel extra subscriptions I bought just to fulfill the 5 minimum. For example-buy 5 separate subscriptions of diapers. If dish soap you need comes along and you really don’t need 5 orders of diapers, get the dish soap and cancel one diaper order. And so on. I have yet to have a month to buy something I didn’t need just to fill a minimum.
Yes, but most people don’t order 5 cases at a time.
I could be wrong on this- but isn’t Costco cheaper for diapers anyway, even with the 20% savings? If so, is this really such a huge loss? And if Amazon really is cheaper- then won’t dealing with the filler items be worth it?
They are not cheaper.
From amazon:
Here’s the update.
Starting August 2, 2017 Amazon Prime members can only get 20% off diaper subscriptions when they have 5 or more subscriptions delivered on the same day to the same address. If you had an existing diaper subscription before that date will still get 20% off the subscription (without needing 5 or more subscriptions delivered on the same day) unless they cancel it. Amazon Prime members can also now get up 20% off subscriptions for baby food (excluding formula) when they have 5 or more subscriptions delivered on the same day to the same address.
Do the subscriptions all have to ship to the same address to count towards the 5+ items? Also, is there an additional cost to join Prime Family from regular Prime, and would you do it Dan?
Needs to go to the same address.
No cost.
@dan When does this take effect?
Does this take affect immediately ?
Yes.
How does one switch from regular prime to prime family?
There’s a link in the post.
I get a bunch of other stuff anyway so no issue for me. I get the pampers wipes the hefty garbage bags and sometimes q tips or other deals that you post for 1 month and once the price goes up I cancel
I may end my Prime membership over this.
I definitely will
Oh well, guess my days of ordering diapors from amazon are over, it was good while it lasted…
Don’t subscribe to other items or want to deal with filler items?
Are you able to cancel the subscription of the filler items before shipping and still have the 20% on diapers,?
No, you need 5+ items to ship for the savings.
NOOOOOOO
Any recommendation for diapers now?
Glade solid air freshener
Post a link to cheap options and I’ll add them to the post.
A useful item Palmolive Dish Liquid, Essential Clean, Apple Pear, 28 Fluid Ounce https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IOE86Z0/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_uPbHzb0KWRFT5
So if you get one box a month you can still be ok?
No, you will only get 5% off unless you have 5 total subscription items.