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Spotify is ~$120 per year Netflix is ~$110-$130 per year
Amazon Prime comes with a plethora of auxillary benefits like Amazon Video and Music, Prime day deals, magazine subscriptions, and many more that I'm probably leaving out. Considering all this, $119 per year doesn't seem like all that much. It's still less than ten bucks a month.
I like the idea Prime but slowly and surely Amazon is pricing people out. At $119 I have to think that it might not be worth being part of it. Do I really order that much from Amazon that paying $119 ahead of any purchases is worth it? I don't think so.
its 100% still viable. Our household saves more on delivery fees then annual subscription price and you get access to their movies and TV shows, plus other prime stuff (early access to items, etc.) I think some will be turned off but it won't really be a lot of folks at the end of the day.
Are you sure? Amazon has free shipping for orders over $25, if you didn't have that "free" shipping, how many times would you pay for shipping versus consolidating multiple orders? Would you count on free 2-day shipping or order far enough ahead to get the free shipping.
I'm a long-time prime member when when my renewal comes up, I'm not sure I'm going to renew. Since I'm already a Netflix subscriber and the Amazon "free prime" catalog is worse than Netflix, prime video is not much of a draw for me
Prime was great when it launched here in the UK, now it's so unreliable in many places that it's completely worthless. The primary reason I used it (and I used it from the very first day) was for the 1-day postage. I think it's 2 days in the US, but frankly our country is pretty tiny so it's not exactly optimistic to do 1 day delivery when the Royal Mail can get me a parcel at 9am in South Wales that was posted at 5pm in the Scottish Highlands the day before.
I had a single parcel delivered on time in the past year, all the rest would be at least a day late. I live on what is essentially a ring-road of Cardiff, and it's insanely easy to deliver to me. There's one of the older Amazon depots within about 45 minutes of my flat, and I think a new one over near Bristol now.
My apartment block has banned Amazon's couriers from leaving parcels with the concierge, because they would rock up, pretend to deliver parcels/eat their lunch, then dump 30 parcels in the concierge office. So now they just dump them outside doors, indicating when you aren't home. They can't even deliver to the Amazon Lockers nearby within the delivery window, and the lockers are nearly always full because we have so few other options.
I've spent the past few months actively seeking to purchase everything via alternative vendors in the UK, and overall, I don't miss Amazon in the slightest. Although eBuyer also sucks (no weekend customer services, wut).
I'm so glad Waterstones is back on form here too; it feels quite poetic to ditch Amazon for its original purpose as a bookstore. Good riddance to them.
I wish amazon would have a prime version of prime that would only show items that aren’t fufilled by other companies. I would pay 30% more for that. I’m on the fence on canceling prime already. The value ad is diminishing .
If it’s coming from an Amazon warehouse and has multiple sellers, you have no way of knowing who supplied the product you’re receiving. Could be Amazon, could be some random dude.
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Prime Video for example, which is their streaming video service, including original content.
Maybe for some. I never watch anything on it.
When thinking about the cost of Prime, you need to think also of the cost of defaulting to Amazon for many purchases and not doing any price comparison. I have found that now it's fairly common to find the same item significantly cheaper elsewhere, but I just go with Amazon because of the convenience. But this convenience has a higher cost than just Prime, imho
• Prime Video is losing selection to "channels" that require extra payment on its own platform.
• Prime shipping is no longer certain to be two days.
• Those which are assured to arrive within two days don't always do so, but I never get a credit for that delay against my prime membership for a failure to meet their SLA even though I'm supposedly covered with some sort of guarantee.
• Prime shipping is no longer certain to source from Amazon warehouses.
• "Add-on items" — items that don't ship alone because they're too small/cheap.
• "Prime Pantry" — select non-perishable everyday items which inexplicably don't qualify for prime shipping even though variants of the same item may be sold under regular Prime rules.
• And worst of all: Amazon commingles Amazon-sourced with FBA merchandise. I've had numerous issues with counterfeits from "sold by Amazon" listings in the last two years because of this.
Disabled auto renewal. This broke the camel's back.
It makes sense if you compare to other contemporary subscription services. Spotify is ~$120 per year Netflix is ~$110-$130 per year Amazon Prime comes with a plethora of auxillary benefits like Amazon Video and Music, Prime day deals, magazine subscriptions, and many more that I'm probably leaving out. Considering all this, $119 per year doesn't seem like all that much. It's still less than ten bucks a month.