[quote name='spincut']still wanan know when the sites "officially" eliminated free shipping, wasnt is generally just a special coupon offer anyway?[/quote]
No it wasn't necessarily official from all sites. But last year at this time, all the major game sites had free shipping on everything. Best Buy I believe was the first to eliminate this, followed not to long after by EB and CC. It all happened around the same time, early last year.
Best Buy's devil customers didn't have that big of impact on my game shopping but it was a striking peice of news, don't really buy football games so that doesn't affect me, but the lack of free shipping at many places makes me reconsider often.