&gt; <i>...my orders with free shipping due to price threshold tend to be significantly slower than Prime, often taking weeks for items of all Prime eligible items.</i><p>I&#x27;ve had the opposite experience (and posted about it here before). Since I joined Prime last year, I&#x27;ve had issues with the guaranteed 2 day shipping taking 3-4 days or sometimes a week. I don&#x27;t live in the backwoods either; I&#x27;m well within the Atlanta metro area (though not quite inside the perimeter). Before I joined Prime, even a non-Prime eligible item would tend to arrive in 1-2 days.<p>I did call Amazon about the issue several months ago, and they offered me gift card credit equal to the non-Prime shipping cost of all shipments that didn&#x27;t meet the guaranteed date, and since then I&#x27;ve only had one late shipment. It definitely pays to contact them about it; I know from working for a company that sells on Amazon that the customer is treated like royalty whenever there&#x27;s an issue, whether it&#x27;s with Marketplace or Amazon direct sales.