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Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year

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Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year

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Post by cenhyperion »

silviorelli wrote: post #12

In Italy Prime costs just 9,99€. That's just a little more than a single shipment. http://www.amazon.it/gp/prime

Does this have to do with the size of the country? 2 day shipments have to be easier to do within Italy than the continental United States.

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Post by gdulli »

I can't understand the idea of paying for shipping (whether it's annual or per-shipment) when there's an option to get it for free. If I decided I couldn't wait a few extra days to get the things I order, I feel I'd be crossing a line of giving in too much to consumerism. Taking away impulse buying is one of the better things about shopping online.

And the streaming services combined don't match what I get with cable, so I found Prime hard to justify at the previous price point.

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Post by codegeek »

For a heavy amazon user such as myself, not much difference. Still very happy to continue using amazon. The math is simple. We probably have 5-10 shipments on average a month coming in. Most of it is for our kids (newborn/1 year) and includes subscriptions for milk, diapers etc. Just recently, my wife added another subscription for stuff like toilet paper, napkins. Without amazon prime, you might end up paying $3-5 on average. So that's almost $30-50 per month. So over a year, you might pay almost $500 in shipping if you use amazon like we do. So really a no-brainer. Not to mention the super fast shipping (many times next day) and hassle free returns for the most part.

I hate driving to a store just to buy household items that require no brain or thought process. Actually wait, I lied. I have even bought my TV, computer desk on amazon recently. So our visit to the "stores" is now pretty much limited to grocery. If I could, would buy everything online. Thanks Amazon Prime, you have a long term member. Please continue to do the great things that you do. Really waiting for the amazon grocery delivery service /fanboy

EDIT: I got curious and checked my last 6 months order history [0]. We had 73 orders in just last 6 months. For entire 2013, we had 85 orders.

[0] http://imgur.com/5IvQtQG

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Post by Encosia »

josefresco wrote: post #3
scottcanoni wrote: post #2

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've been paying for Prime for a couple years (and will continue at $99/year), but I couldn't care less about the video. If there were a shipping-only Prime for $79, I wouldn't think twice about dropping the video.

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Post by morsch »

pidg wrote: post #16

In the UK, Amazon have just raised the cost of Prime from £49 to £79, and bundled in their (failing?) LoveFilm movie streaming service to excuse it. A lot of people I know (including me) are cancelling as a result - not due to the cost, but more the brazenness of it.

Incredibly, it's 49 EUR (41 GBP) in Germany -- that's after the price hike/LoveFilm inclusion. Half that amount for students.

Still not worth it for me, everything I buy from Amazon tends to be eligible for free shipping anyway. And as far as I know their streaming service doesn't stock videos in their native languages, so it's practically worthless to me.

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Post by joesmo »

The quality of this service is hit and miss. Sometimes they use a reliable carrier like UPS, other times they send things via USPS so they can be stolen. With this price increase, and their inability (I've asked multiple times) to determine what carrier they will ship with and ship with a reliable carrier, this has become a liability now that I wish I had not renewed. It's amazing to me that Amazon would ship anything of value with such an unreliable carrier as USPS.

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Post by mhb »

codegeek wrote: post #23

For a heavy amazon user such as myself, not much difference. Still very happy to continue using amazon. The math is simple. We probably have 5-10 shipments on average a month coming in. Most of it is for our kids (newborn/1 year) and includes subscriptions for milk, diapers etc. Just recently, my wife added another subscription for stuff like toilet paper, napkins. Without amazon prime, you might end up paying $3-5 o…

I'm considering whether it's worth it. I thought that, for orders over $25, shipping was free anyway. With the amount of ordering you do, wouldn't there be little advantage to having Prime, especially if you tried to aggregate your items?

Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year

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Post by odonnellryan »

codegeek wrote: post #23

For a heavy amazon user such as myself, not much difference. Still very happy to continue using amazon. The math is simple. We probably have 5-10 shipments on average a month coming in. Most of it is for our kids (newborn/1 year) and includes subscriptions for milk, diapers etc. Just recently, my wife added another subscription for stuff like toilet paper, napkins. Without amazon prime, you might end up paying $3-5 o…

Many times next day is right. Amazon has no reservations with speed. Even if you say 2-day, it might be there the next day.
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