Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
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Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
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Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
#2This 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).
Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
#3This 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.
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#4The settings page to opt out of Amazon Prime is disabled.
Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
#5This 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.
Speak for yourself, prime for me is still about fast shipping. I pretty much won't buy anything that doesn't have prime shipping
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#6While 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?"
Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
#7This 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.
Is it? I'd rather they split this into 2 plans and let me have just the fast shipping for $79 (or less) and people who want streaming can pay $99.
Netflix still has the better offering IMO. Not only content, but the video interface is better too. Initially Amazon's video player worked on Linux out of the box, but now it's just as hacky to get running as Netflix.
Due to this price increase, I'm going to reevaluate how important fast shipping is to me.
Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
#8While 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?"
Agreed. And, they haven't raised the prices in years.
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#9Prime could cost $199 and I still wouldn't have to think before subscribing.
Re: Amazon Prime To Cost $99 A Year
#10This 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.
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 prime for me anymore.