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Alternate Headline: โAmazon ruins Prime and forces their customers to cancel their Prime Memberships by putting advertisements into paid contentโ
So ads, charging for shipping on many products, and costing $140 a year? Hmm.
Oh awesome, great for users. I hope they increase the price of prime again with it!
Prime Video was my favourite =(
For the first time I was contemplating cancelling my prime subscription,but now I believe the contemplation is over.
I'm supposed to pay them so that they can make more money off me? Uh... No. No, I'm good.
I keep forgetting that I have Amazon video.
It's trash.
It's one of my favorite streaming services. The Grand tour, Clarkson's farm, the boys, marvelous Mrs maisel, the wheel of time, that lotr series, peripheral. They have a decent catalogue. Plus it's "free" because I get prime for shipping.
Id probably ask my buddy for access to his Plex if they add ads. I already get annoyed that they show me stuff I'd have to pay extra for in the same screen as the prime content.
Prime is still worth it to me for the free shipping, but I won't be watching their video if I have to watch ads and I certainly won't be paying extra for the privilege of not having to watch them.
I really hate the "free shipping" line. It's not free, you are literally paying a monthly fee for it, even if you buy nothing. That is in no way "free".
Are you really buying from Amazon more than twice a month? If yes, stop/wait and combine shipments. If not, cancel prime because even at their now-standard $6 shipping per order, you'd break even or save $6-$12.
I've taught my parents this, and they now see the idiocy in buying things the second they think of them, even if they won't use it for weeks. A $4 item with $6 shipping is so incredibly stupid, but now that they wait until they "need" a few items, suddenly shipping is $0 because they reached the $35 tipping point. Even at the 'discounted' federal assistance price level of prime (I'm disabled), it made no sense.
That, and they claim you get "faster" shipping with Prime but in my area at least they always manage to fuck it up, so they wind up delivering every single order days or sometimes a week later than they originally promised. I therefore have no desire to pay them a bribe just to fuck up anyway; they stuff I order without Prime gets here in the same time frame 95% of the time. It's literally worthless.
This might make me reconsider my prime subscription. I already find prime video a bit lacking but combined with free shipping I find the service as a whole worth paying for, however Iโm not sure I order enough for free shipping alone to be worth it
Crappy move Amazon. Real crappy
They already show ads though. Just for their own content after every episode.
It's made me stop using their service because it's annoying enough as it is.
Also those make me despise the advertised show and refuse to watch it already.
I was contemplating to subscribe to Prime as they have some interesting (for me) exclusive stuff, but was hesitating to add just another subscription.
Thank you, Amazon, to make the decision so easy - if even a paid subscription is riddled with ads, it is a 100% no-buy for me.
yarr