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Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by opencl »

matte_black wrote: post #43
eganist wrote: post #29

Nope. • 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 longe…

You are forgetting one of the biggest benefits: The Amazon Prime VISA card with 5% cash back on all Amazon and Whole Foods purchases. If you are not using this card, you are leaving money on the table. This benefit is easily worth an increase of 20 bucks a year. You will still come out ahead.

Not everyone spends >$2200 per year on Amazon purchases. I do not come anywhere near that.

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by opencl »

praneshp wrote: post #61
ams6110 wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many sellers offer free shipping without prime. Or offer the same item cheaper than prime with a slightly longer shipping delay.

aka several logins, several places I have to maintain credit cards for (depending on which one I get most points on), several services that can get hacked and leave my details in a public database, etc...

Not different logins. The same item, also on Amazon, sold without Prime shipping is very often cheaper than with Prime. Of course Amazon defaults to not showing you this.

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by matte_black »

opencl wrote: post #71
matte_black wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are forgetting one of the biggest benefits: The Amazon Prime VISA card with 5% cash back on all Amazon and Whole Foods purchases. If you are not using this card, you are leaving money on the table. This benefit is easily worth an increase of 20 bucks a year. You will still come out ahead.

Not everyone spends >$2200 per year on Amazon purchases. I do not come anywhere near that.

The great thing about Amazon is they have tons of whales. If you buy everything through Amazon it’s easy to end up with yearly spends north of $10k

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by skellera »

mycodebreaks wrote: post #70

My main reason for shopping from Amazon is that I do not want to sign up separately on many retailer's websites. E.g. target, best buy, Walmart, ... If there is a single sign-on option which provides good enough data safety & privacy, lot of my shopping will move away from Amazon to this virtual YC 2019 company.

I think thats what google is trying to do with their service but that would not meet your privacy requirements.

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by praneshp »

opencl wrote: post #72
praneshp wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

aka several logins, several places I have to maintain credit cards for (depending on which one I get most points on), several services that can get hacked and leave my details in a public database, etc...

Not different logins. The same item, also on Amazon, sold without Prime shipping is very often cheaper than with Prime. Of course Amazon defaults to not showing you this.

Ah, I took several sellers to mean target, jet, etc. My mistake.

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by dingaling »

desk_rabbit wrote: post #64
eganist wrote: post #29

Nope. • 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 longe…

> • "Add-on items" — items that don't ship alone because they're too small/cheap. This is the only thing Amazon has done annoying enough to get me to buy elsewhere (other than, occasionally, price comparisons).

Particularly when they started reclassifying formerly-purchasable items, that I had in my order history, as Add-Ons.

I would have grudgingly accepted that if they'd just said "sorry, they're too expensive to ahip individually" but their PR kept spinning a tale about hugely expanded range.

Instead I started buying small items on eBay, paying the small amount of postage required, which led to buying bigger things and eventually barely looking at Amazon any more.

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by JohnTHaller »

eganist wrote: post #29

Nope. • 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 longe…

Ditto on most of the above. I think I've watched a total of two movies on Amazon Prime Video in the last year. I use Netflix and Hulu and YouTube most of the time. Plus it's not properly released on Android on Google Play, so I don't use it on my phone or tablet at all. I only use Prime for shipping and it's just not worth it anymore.

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by jonheller »

It appears I'm the only person so far here who absolutely does not mind a small increase in price for Amazon Prime.

- I still get everything in two days.

- I never get third party merchandise accidentally.

- Amazon has, bar none, the best customer support and return experience of any company I've ever ordered from. Most of the time they just tell me to keep the product. If there were any issues at all, I just mention that and the return is free. Otherwise I will pay the small return shipping cost if I just decided I didn't like something.

Every now and then I have to visit a physical store for something and I wonder how much of my life I've saved ordering from Amazon, especially after I signed up for Prime which made it much more reasonable to buy pretty much everything from there.

Re: Amazon Raises Annual Prime Price 20% to $119

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Post by [deleted] »

matte_black wrote: post #73
opencl wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not everyone spends >$2200 per year on Amazon purchases. I do not come anywhere near that.

The great thing about Amazon is they have tons of whales. If you buy everything through Amazon it’s easy to end up with yearly spends north of $10k

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