Amazon has over 100 million prime users, thats 10 billion in revenues, but US shipping cost is around 16 billion, and with Trump pushing for rate hike on US postal service the cost will go up. So raising prime rates is a good move.
Amazon is raising the price of Prime to $119
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#12How much actual stuff (as opposed to downloads) does the average person buy from Amazon, or other online retailers? I wonder if I'm unusual in making perhaps one online physical purchase per month (not just from Amazon), but then, I don't think I've known anyone with a Prime subscription. Saving a day or two in delivery time also seems of very marginal value.
I usually don't care about the delivery time (although it is very nice when you're on a trip), the big thing is I used to wait until I had enough things to buy that I would qualify for no additional cost shipping, and with prime for most things, that's not needed. So if there's a nice movie on sale for $3, I don't spend a bunch more money to get the deal.
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#13Just checked how much I’ve spent on Amazon last year. It was about $4500. Cost of Prime is 2.7% of that. Most purchases were more than $35 anyway. Maybe I’ll pass on it for the next year. $10/mo is a significant psychological barrier for me.
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#14How much actual stuff (as opposed to downloads) does the average person buy from Amazon, or other online retailers? I wonder if I'm unusual in making perhaps one online physical purchase per month (not just from Amazon), but then, I don't think I've known anyone with a Prime subscription. Saving a day or two in delivery time also seems of very marginal value.
My office has a mail shelf that overflows with Amazon packages every day (medium-size tech company). Similarly, my local news agent is now mostly an Amazon depo with a HUGE stack of Amazon parcels behind the counter awaiting collection.
I myself spent over £6000 on Amazon last year. I also use AWS at work...basically Amazon is my life.
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#15How much actual stuff (as opposed to downloads) does the average person buy from Amazon, or other online retailers? I wonder if I'm unusual in making perhaps one online physical purchase per month (not just from Amazon), but then, I don't think I've known anyone with a Prime subscription. Saving a day or two in delivery time also seems of very marginal value.
I usually don't care about the delivery time (although it is very nice when you're on a trip), the big thing is I used to wait until I had enough things to buy that I would qualify for no additional cost shipping, and with prime for most things, that's not needed. So if there's a nice movie on sale for $3, I don't spend a bunch more money to get the deal.
I think the biggest selling point for me is not just the delivery time but also the returns process. It's easy and painless to return things.
Re: Amazon is raising the price of Prime to $119
#16How much actual stuff (as opposed to downloads) does the average person buy from Amazon, or other online retailers? I wonder if I'm unusual in making perhaps one online physical purchase per month (not just from Amazon), but then, I don't think I've known anyone with a Prime subscription. Saving a day or two in delivery time also seems of very marginal value.
My office has a mail shelf that overflows with Amazon packages every day (medium-size tech company). Similarly, my local news agent is now mostly an Amazon depo with a HUGE stack of Amazon parcels behind the counter awaiting collection. I myself spent over £6000 on Amazon last year. I also use AWS at work...basically Amazon is my life.
I last purchased from Amazon in summer 2016, I think after reading about how they treated their warehouse staff, but I still use other online retailers.
I made 7 online purchases in the last 12 months. eBay got about €60, the other €rather_a_lot went to local electronics and furniture stores.
Otherwise, unless the price is unreasonable, I buy from local shops. I don't like the overwhelming choice online, and find it faster to compare things like books in a shop.
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#17Well, I guess I won’t be renewing after this year. Walmart just recently started doing online ordering with next day pickup, and my wife loves it. We never shopped at Walmart before, but it’s so convenient now that we don’t have to go into the store that they’ve lured us back. I find there’s fewer and fewer things I need from amazon, and video seems to have more and more upsell movies mixed in with the actual content…
The increased expense along with the increase of counterfeights and some competitors gaining some steam made quitting a no-brainer for me this year.
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#18Well, I guess I won’t be renewing after this year. Walmart just recently started doing online ordering with next day pickup, and my wife loves it. We never shopped at Walmart before, but it’s so convenient now that we don’t have to go into the store that they’ve lured us back. I find there’s fewer and fewer things I need from amazon, and video seems to have more and more upsell movies mixed in with the actual content…
The increased expense along with the increase of counterfeights and some competitors gaining some steam made quitting a no-brainer for me this year.
Same here. Canceled my Prime membership after about 5 years as a member for those exact same reasons. Amazon is rapidly becoming the internet equivalent of a slumlord.
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#19Well, I guess I won’t be renewing after this year. Walmart just recently started doing online ordering with next day pickup, and my wife loves it. We never shopped at Walmart before, but it’s so convenient now that we don’t have to go into the store that they’ve lured us back. I find there’s fewer and fewer things I need from amazon, and video seems to have more and more upsell movies mixed in with the actual content…
The only thing keeping me around at this point is Twitch Prime; that's half of the Prime cost right there that I actually would be spending otherwise. But I certainly agree; there are often better online shopping options, the product quality has declined tremendously, and I find myself valuing 2-day shipping less and less.
The one thing that I do still enjoy is the simplicity of most of my online shopping occurring at one place. Looking through old orders is surprisingly useful; you can easily see how long an item has lasted, be it consumables or to assess durability/quality.
I could see value in a service that scrapes your inbox and records confirmation/shipping email information for you to try to recreate that.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I usually don't care about the delivery time (although it is very nice when you're on a trip), the big thing is I used to wait until I had enough things to buy that I would qualify for no additional cost shipping, and with prime for most things, that's not needed. So if there's a nice movie on sale for $3, I don't spend a bunch more money to get the deal.
I think the biggest selling point for me is not just the delivery time but also the returns process. It's easy and painless to return things.
I didn't think prime affected the returns process, though?