 Hi there, welcome back to my youtube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here in Jerusalem and good news for the Israeli e-commerce fiends of this world Amazon is has resumed its free a free shipping deal To Israel now I just want to give a little bit of context here because people are going to start talking about Amazon being back in Israel and Amazon's returned Israel and all this kind of stuff now the reality is that Amazon were only gone from Israel for two months At least over the last few years now Let me just explain Amazon and Israel and if you live in Israel What you're where what's going on and why I'm kind of skeptical that this deal is going to really stick around? But that's just my opinion. So Amazon is broken up into different marketplaces now I did work for a few months as a customer service associate CSA with Amazon dot-co.uk via a temping agency. It was a Temporary job before making aliyah, but it was a bit of fun But Amazon marketplaces work and work quite differently. So you've got Amazon dot-co.uk Amazon dot de Amazon dot it Amazon dot com now from the consumers perspective these look like websites But it goes a bit deeper than that. They've got different resources different customer support structures and different As far as you know in all cases or at least in most cases Logistics networks and that's referring to the FCS the fulfillment centers that Amazon uses to warehouse goods whether they're the products that they are buying themselves and selling directly or FBA and they also have FCS in Europe and This offers being run out of the dot-com marketplace So that's the first thing that doesn't make a lot of sense to me Why Amazon would be doing this because geographically speaking The US is clearly further from Israel in the Middle East than UK But that has been the trend now the times of Israel have a good explainer or Announcements about this and what exactly this offer is so they just make note of the fact that this is the third deal Amazon been putting on apparently there was one in 2018 I must have missed that must have missed that fun and which is over 80 books This was the more famous one November 2019. It was free shipping over 49 books I was actually quoted in this newspaper the times of Israel because I was so excited about this deal and Then COVID happened and Amazon pulled the plug on the deal now There was a lot of speculation that really kind of annoyed me at that point in time from Israelis Some people on social media saying, you know, oh the deal is coming back the deals for now I reached out to Amazon. They did not tell me the deal was coming back I don't believe there was any evidence that this deal was necessarily planned to come back and in the guys in which It's come back. I believe there's no Promise again, that's going to be kept going for kept going and it's not the same It's not the same deal as well. So it's it's that the threshold is higher. It was a previously a $49 and above deal now. It's a $65 and above deal now Why this matters is that the reason that Amazon isn't such a huge thing in Israel is because of the fact that Firstly from the UK marketplace not a lot of stuff ships here. It's getting better. I believe From what I can see, but still it's a limited inventory of stock secondly Shipping so it costs money to send stuff to Israel from that network and therefore it's often the case that you know You see something like well, it's a $50 pair of headphones like these $50 headphones and the shipping is like 40 bucks and you're kind of like do I really want to pay almost the Price of the goods to get the headphones there. That's just the cost of operating Proper shipping methods to Israel and Amazon have to have to pass it on now The second factor is that Israel's vast VAT Law specifies that you have to pay 17% VAT on products worth over 75 dollars to cleared value at customs So if you order monitor speakers like the speakers on my desk here, those were about a hundred and five dollars So if I ordered that from Amazon, they'd be liable for tax and possibly for other things as well therefore, you know 75 bucks is You can get some things and that's kind of why Ali Express has become really popular in Israel because It's by and large a cheap marketplace selling cheap products from direct to consumer from Chinese manufacturers and They also offer free shipping and that is subsidized. I believe I've heard at least in part by the Chinese government So therefore they're kind of taking advantage of a false of government sponsored subsidies in order to artificially Ship things to Israel that would otherwise be costing money now Amazon have gone the other approach and they put on this deal So I've just entered into my Amazon Into an Amazon account here. I'm just gonna bring that over one sec to show you how to find these things I've just created a fake address in the account. I called it Daniel's YouTube palace. Maybe one day I really will have a YouTube palace and I've located my YouTube palace on 41 Agripa Street, which is the location of my former post office in downtown Jerusalem So this should reflect as very a central city central location in the Jerusalem metropolitan area So if that's where you're buying to you should be getting most of these things Let me just show you what you need to do to scoop up scoop up these deals. So what could we get now? You have two options here Firstly, my commentary on this deal is that the threshold is pretty narrow So the $50 threshold for those looking to stay within the confines of the bat free limit meant that we had a $25 threshold so you could buy a few things for 50 bucks and not have to really worry about Going over now. There is a qualification technically. I believe there's a 72 hour window That's that if you order things that show up to Israel within 72 hours They'll consider it like one thing. I've heard stories of people that fell out of that so Look 75 17% that's not a crazy amount But people I I do know that a lot of people are very concerned about not accruing that fat charge So I just want to so there's there's less wiggle room here So you can either add a few things together that will come to between 65 and 75 dollars That's one approach or you can buy one item So I'm just gonna for the sake of simplicity Show you how to get show you how to scoop up the deal So I'm gonna just make myself a little bit smaller here. So you can see There are two categories whenever these deals happen. There are two categories of things one ship to Israel See here is ship to Israel, but don't be mistaken They may not they might not be in the deal You have to click on that button to get the things in the deal So not everything that ships to Israel is included in their global inventory is part of the deal It's only certain things. So we have two limitations on what's included here One does it ship to Israel in the first place to is it included in the deal? So I'm not trying to knock the deal here. I'm just saying that there are some sort of limitations that Sort of qualified a little bit So you see here at the top free shipping by Amazon eligible for free shipping So click on that and Now we're looking at products that actually are included in the deal now If you want to go with this approach and look for something that is In this area you can do this there's a little price filter You can you can filter by price for between these amounts or you can just type in amounts in the in the from to box and click go Now we're only seeing things that are in the category now You could you could try those those are actually supposed to be very good monitor speakers I wonder if some of this is very deliberate. They they price this now reduced it from 80 bucks to within 1 cent of under 75 I Mean theoretically, I think that could that should get through Israeli customs without VAP, but be a bit hesitant to recommend Playing playing with 1 cent These were actually the ones I was thinking about getting instead of the ease us and they want them in black Ah, I could have got them from Amazon But let's go nice to be a little bit Give ourselves a bit of breathing space and go for these which are still only $1 below the limit But at least we're not arguing over 1 cent potentially and they're down from 100 bucks, so here you have a pair of speakers no import fees deposit So let us go and check now item ships to Israel arrived September 19. That's not very quick Let's take a look anyway, and just make sure that we can we can't get this deal firstly Okay, so I've just gotten to the final pre-ordering screen here and It looks like I've managed to get the deal now. I just for the purpose of this demo I just didn't add my table. That's a hoots national national ID to the system but you can see it's shipping to my YouTube palace here on 41 a group bus in center of Jerusalem and It's applied the discount. You can see here the shipping cost would have been $31.40 and that 31 40 came off in the free shipping promo and I look at the Arrival date it is September 19th, and I'm recording this video on the 26th of August therefore one two Three is that it's a Thursday the third Sunday in September and we're the last yep Three weeks delivery. So now practically speaking Amazon things orders do tend to come a good deal quicker than Than that but it's still not a very fast a delivery estimate Given that it is of course the pandemic and all that kind of stuff But you can see it's actually not that much quicker than their priority shipping method Which they're charging $40 for so you can start to see under the typical circumstances Why shipping to Israel from Amazon doesn't make a lot of sense because you know Under normal affairs you'd find yourself wanting to buy you seventy four dollar speakers Shipping will cost 40 on them. They probably they're probably not beyond discounted to be over the limit So you've got that plus shipping that's more than half their cost and it just sort of doesn't really make sense So that's basically the deal that's currently on offer What do I think about the deal? Well, you know, it's nice that it's back that there is a deal in place And you know, it's not they're not offering the fastest shipping method on the deal It is a deal that's being offered from the dot-com marketplace at the moment and therefore I Don't think it's reasonable to assume Amazon are going to be able to indefinitely subsidize shipping to Israel So I would kind of view this more as a marketing promotion intended to Keep Israelis keep Amazon on the minds of people living in Israel that you can get Amazon here But I think that to for Amazon to sort of Really entrench themselves as a viable e-commerce option for Israeli consumers They're probably going to have to look into different logistics because you know, they're not going to indefinitely swallow $30 per order in international free charges to get products to this relatively small at the end of the day trading geography Hope that video is interesting bottom line $65 and over on qualifying items You should be able to get those shipped free to Israel for as long as the promo lasts and do of course check that out before relying on Anything in this video. 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