The making of Amazon Prime, the internet's most devastating membership program

Post by ensignavenger » Fri, May 03, 2019, 9:07 PM UTC

colejohnson66 wrote: post #40

ensignavenger wrote: post #22

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This is exactly why I am no longer a Prime subscriber. I rarely order from Amazon anymore because they deliberately delay shipping because I am not on Prime, and I can order from ebay or Walmart and get my stuff within 2-3 days usually, for the same price or less. Prime has a few shows I might watch, but it filtering what I can and can't watch free with Prime is impossible (or at least was the last time I had it). Ne…

It’s not so much that they delay shipping, it’s that they can deprioritize your order because you didn’t pay for shipping (through upgrading the shipping method or using prime)

Post by m463 » Sat, May 04, 2019, 2:43 AM UTC

ensignavenger wrote: post #22

omega3 wrote: post #20

As an active subscriber, I find Prime very frustrating, the plethora of different benefits on offer sounds amazing. However, in practice Video doesn't have the shows and movies I want to watch, Reading doesn't have the books I want to read, Music doesn't have the music I want to listen to and shopping still takes two days to arrive (to one of the biggest cities in the UK). It seems every time I want to watch a movie…

This is exactly why I am no longer a Prime subscriber. I rarely order from Amazon anymore because they deliberately delay shipping because I am not on Prime, and I can order from ebay or Walmart and get my stuff within 2-3 days usually, for the same price or less. Prime has a few shows I might watch, but it filtering what I can and can't watch free with Prime is impossible (or at least was the last time I had it). Ne…