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This makes Newegg even more attractive with their $50 a year premier plan. If you mostly buy computers or electronics (which I assume most of HN readers do).
If you have an SPG Amex card, the membership is at no cost to you.
This makes Newegg even more attractive with their $50 a year premier plan. If you mostly buy computers or electronics (which I assume most of HN readers do).
Prime these days is less about fast shipping and more about the bundled streaming/media services.
I made 2 online movie rentals within the past few weeks, and both times I checked amazon, but then remembered that it doesn't work on my devices, and ended up getting it from Google Play. They're missing out on purchases, and getting people used to using other services - not a great way to set yourself up for the future...
While I would always wish to pay less for something, this is fine with me. Prime is still such an amazing value for me, and Amazon has created so much good will with me by being so awesome for so long that my reaction to this was basically to shrug and say "what took so long?"
A lot of people I know (including me) are cancelling as a result - not due to the cost, but more the brazenness of it.
This makes Newegg even more attractive with their $50 a year premier plan. If you mostly buy computers or electronics (which I assume most of HN readers do).
Prime these days is less about fast shipping and more about the bundled streaming/media services.
If they wanted to run a streaming/media service they should have done just that. They have definitely lost me as a customer by switching me from one service to another without even asking for confirmation (I found out in hackernews). Even if I was interested in the media streaming service which I'm absolutely not, I would still be upset about the way they have dealt with it.
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Prime these days is less about fast shipping and more about the bundled streaming/media services.
Interesting. In DE those services were just unlocked (and the price increased for renewals accordingly). So far it was JUST for fast shipping. I subscribed for faster/cheaper shipping and canceled now, after a couple years. The streaming services are of no use to me. Most content in Germany is .. German (dubbed). I don't see a streaming client on Android or a way to stream from my XBMC. Inaccessible + expensive -> No…
Apparently, there is some content which isn't dubbed but it's not enough to make it attractive.
In Italy Prime costs just 9,99€. That's just a little more than a single shipment. http://www.amazon.it/gp/prime
In Italy Prime costs just 9,99€. That's just a little more than a single shipment. http://www.amazon.it/gp/prime