The comments above are by Speculoos and Ice Empress in the thread referred to between the asterisks. They never heard of the minimum either.

 

I went and reviewed my order history more closely. It does not agree with what you are telling us, Stacy, about there always being a $5.00 minimum. 

In 2010 and 2011 and into 2012 I had between one and three dozen purchases below 5.00 and more then a dozen of them less than $1.00, some as low as 60 cents.

After August 2012 It does not seem that I puchased any low dollar items because most of my purchases were of PRIME objects which are priced at $3.50. I stopped checking my order history at that point.

The above comments by Speculoos seem to indicate that there was no minimum in effect as recently as July 21 2014 but that something had changed by Wed July 23, 2014, the date of his thread comments.

I ask that you return to a policy of no minumum.