Tried it just now.. No go for me unfortunately.

thanks for the reply. im glad its not just me. but i did the same 0.1 weight just to be able to save the promo price. doing a test sale just now charges me shipping. anybody from Shopify that could enlighten us here? 

Hello..  I was wondering if anybody could help me out with this error that just started happening. I put zero weight on products that we ship for free. today i noticed it's telling me the weight should be more than 0. never really did any changes to ...

Filed a complaint with the FTC. Will send this dude tobi an email as well. This is BS. They're meant to help small business get ahead but they dig a deeper hole for us instead.