I recently left Prime. I was disappointed to see ads introduced into Amazon Music, for music I'd paid for. I could get the same music with ads elsewhere.
To me, if I can't keep music I'd paid for, there's a strong case for piracy.
Amazon Prime Video content to start including ads next year
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#262So, $2.99/month * 12 = $35.88/year. Are they really saying that they are going to make less than $36USD per year from viewers being served ads? Otherwise, why would they allow an ad free experience if it is leaving money on the table?
Perhaps anticipated churn from users who are heavy video users but will not tolerate ads?
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#263Imagine a world where a guy worth over 150 billion dollars who owns a company worth over a trillion dollars and has a quasi-monopoly over the internet is in such desperate need of more money to the point where he's going to put advertising on his video platform, even though people already pay for the platform. Instead of raising prices moderately, or putting better content on the platform, they decide to instead put…
Capitalism demands that all products and services are maximally enshittified for profit to the breaking point line, and no further.
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#264Earlier quoted context omitted.
You don’t even get the two day anymore, it’s basically worthless for shipping anymore.
I've been really surprised lately how often I go to a product page, see "Prime 2-day shipping, fulfilled by Amazon" and when I order it often takes ~5 days to get my order. Definitely picking the shipped/sold by Amazon listings too, not third party marketplace ones. I'm in the Bay Area, so not a remote area either. Also if I check the tracking, it's not that it gets stuck in the Bay, like if it's just a busy week of…
>Or they're just not guaranteeing 2-day delivery anymore.
They haven't been, in my experience. They used to throw you a free month (or more) when you complain it took a week, now they just kind of say you could return it if you want. Very late items sometimes do get a refund, but that's rare.
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#265All these streaming services are rushing towards $20/month at a time when the content pipeline has dried up with the WGA/SAG strike over the unsustainable streaming model. I’ve always resented the bundling of Prime delivery with a wannabe Netflix service. This change means I either won’t use the the video service anymore or I’ll have to pay more. Time to go back to piracy.
Exactly this. Is this a way to pass the cost of the WGA/SAG negotiation to consumers? It sounds like it, and it might even make sense as such. The challenge is that the cost is passed while content is not generated, so as consumer the reasonable choice is to also "strike" on subscriptions for a while, until the pipeline is full again. Hopefully this strike will stick, the same way subscriptions tend to stick.
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#266Whilst I use prime video, thats only because it comes 'for free' alongside shipping, which (at least in the UK) still is pretty good in terms of next-day, sometimes even same day.
I wish they would do a cheaper tier without all these additional 'benefits' (Video, Music, Twitch etc), but I suspect the reality is that its sort of a loss leader even without those benefits.
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#267Thank you Amazon for this display of unbridled greed. You've helped me realize that I really don't need Prime for anything, I barely use Amazon anyway due to all the fake products, so I am going to cancel and save myself >$100 a year.
If I cancel Prime, do I lose access to the Prime Videos I have already bought? I have LOTR extended on there as well as a bunch of seasons of Always Sunny.
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#268Thank you Amazon for this display of unbridled greed. You've helped me realize that I really don't need Prime for anything, I barely use Amazon anyway due to all the fake products, so I am going to cancel and save myself >$100 a year. If I cancel Prime, do I lose access to the Prime Videos I have already bought? I have LOTR extended on there as well as a bunch of seasons of Always Sunny.
Aren't they re-investing all of their revenue still?
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#269So, $2.99/month * 12 = $35.88/year. Are they really saying that they are going to make less than $36USD per year from viewers being served ads? Otherwise, why would they allow an ad free experience if it is leaving money on the table?
They think removing ads will be worth $2.99 to people, and that they'll make enough off of this + the ads themselves to offset the loss of some people leaving due to the add.
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