The American Eagle website AE.com has been down for three days. To show their loyal shoppers that they truly are sorry about being down, American Eagle is offering free shipping on all orders until Sunday, July 25th. Shoppers need to enter the American Eagle coupon code 74936062 at checkout.

Free Shipping with Amazon Student

Just in time for Back to School shopping, Amazon is offering free Amazon Prime for one year to college students. The service gives students one full year of free 2-day shipping with Amazon Prime and email alerts for special discounts. Non-students have to pay $79 per year for Amazon Prime.

To sign-up for Amazon Student, students need to be enrolled in a college or university and have a valid .edu email address to confirm the verification email.

This is a very smart move on Amazon’s part, as it should get young people to start using Amazon for most of their online shopping.

I am curious as to whether students who enroll in Amazon Student will automatically have to start paying for Amazon Prime after the first year is up. I would hope not, as $79 is a lot of money for a college student.

Do you think competitors like Sears will follow suit and offer free ShipVantage to college students?

Macys.com has free shipping on any order

For the first time ever Macy’s is promoting a free shipping code good for any order placed on Macys.com. Macy’s usually offers free shipping on specific items or free shipping over $99 if it’s a holiday.

So the question is why is Macys.com promoting this new free shipping offer which is sure to lower their average order price? I believe Macy’s is testing their servers and processes to make sure they are ready to handle the big back to school and holiday shopping traffic when online merchants like Macys.com will make a majority of their sales.

The best way to generate holiday levels of traffic is to promote a first time ever promotion like free shipping on everything. And it worked. When visiting Macys.com this morning I was told to wait 10 seconds as the site was receiving higher than normal traffic levels.

Shoppers should take advantage of this Macy’sshipping code now, as it probably won’t show it’s head again for a very long time. Use coupon code SHIPFREE until Wednesday to get free shipping at Macy’s.