I really need to cancel my membership. Most things I really want can be bought on Ebay open-box for cheaper. Any daily essentials I just go to Sam's Club or Aldi.
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Canned mine the day they announced ads in Prime Video.
They'd already ruined the music service earlier in the year.
I bought a car stereo last Friday with Prime. It said next day delivery by 11am. At 11am I check and it says it'll be here this coming Friday.... I cancelled it because crap like this keeps happening. (about 75% of my orders) I live within two miles of a giant distribution center. I looked at other places for the same radio and Walmart had it (not a fan of them either but same price, same day shipping for free) so I ordered it. It was at my door four hours later.
I'm done with Amazon.
Duh?
Is no one else using Prime for unlimited, uncompressed photo storage? I feel like it's a big thing and I'm not even a photographer. It's basically the same as Google had before they have decided to get rid of that feature on the free 15GB accounts.
That's basically the only reason I have it. I almost never use Amazon for ordering something
I don't want Amazon or Google using ai to harvest my family's photo data and likeness so it's not worth it. You pay and still are the product
And as soon as they're done they'll pull the rug out from under you just like Google did.
I have my amazon account since 2005 and i've been fine without prime ever since.
Guess I just never really bought something thats so critical to have asap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They keep giving me a month of free prime, which I use and cancel before the first charge.
Amazon seems confident they'll convert me eventually.
Or that you'll forget to cancel!
You can cancel 30 seconds after using it and keep your 30 day trial. Most services work this way. Take the trial, immediately cancel, and move on.
Living without amazon prime is easy; living without amazon at all is more challenging with various manufacturers using amazon as their only storefront
….so find different manufacturers. Why do you need those specific ones? Fuck Amazon, stop giving them money. What do they have to do to lose your business.
Then the eff with them. If something isn't available retail, there's a million other online retailers more local, more specialized, or just plain out of the manufacturer itself.
You can live without. Or you help them becoming even more dominant.
Fight it. Fight them.
We try to, but when you're living paycheck to paycheck, trying to find solutions to the moving target that is your wife's fibromyalgia, have a growing, energetic baby boy, sometimes you can't afford paying twice as much or more for the product that isn't sold on amazon, assuming such an alternative exists.
Unfortunately, lots of people can't afford to shop with a conscience
Absolutely this. Blaming the consumer when the system has been rigged is a bad take
I've been doing it my whole life
the third party delivery companies using Amazon painted trucks is a new form of racketeering for organized crime.
The idea that people think it would be difficult to live without an Amazon Prime subscription absolutely blows my mind. Are y'all really that hooked on buying stupid shit and getting it as fast as possible?
I think it's also different internationally? For eg. in India, I already use credit cards, but there's a lifetime free credit card for Amazon that allows you to earn up to 5%. But without Prime, I earn only 3%. Ofc, this is only worthwhile because I already shop from Amazon without Prime and without the credit card, admittedly, but in my scenario it's far more worthwhile to have Prime than to not, because it pays for itself within a month or two even without me consuming a single piece of media from Amazon (whether it's Prime Video or Prime Music or Audible, etc).
Idk if this exists in every country where Prime exists, but I assume they're just trying to gain more market share in India so it's an option here. 🤷🏾♂️ But it certainly makes it worthwhile for me in my specific case.
I don't understand some people who swear by it. If there's really something I need by the next day, I probably need it the same day and will just get it myself at a store.
Where I live, getting anything at a store besides basic food isn't a thing. You can't find ANYTHING at Walmart. Hardware stores are the last semblance of being able to find stuff in a store in person like the olden days. If it wasn't for the fact contractors buy entire houses worth of shit for "pro delivery" , even those would stop existing.
It saves you money because shipping is free.
Only if you make over 3 purchases per month. That's what it came out for me when I checked if I should get Prime. That's when you get the cheaper option by paying for the whole year. I might only have 3 purchases a month once or twice a year, so definitely not worth it for me.
I bought a lot on Amazon, never paid shipping. I can just wait a week for it to show up. Only suckers pay for Prime.
If it’s something you need right now, go to a store and buy it.
idk about where you are but where I'm from the long shipping isn't free either without prime.
Usually have to order above a certain threshold of price to get free shipping.
That theory works if you're only buying things you need. I know people that buy stuff they don't really need and/or never use because it was cheap on Amazon.
yea, they obviously make a profit on it because it results in people buying more stuff. but in my situation it saves me money I'm pretty sure. just recently I bought some breadboards and tweezers for electronics projects and some rubber feet thingys for my keyboard. I would've bought them elsewhere if amazon didn't exist so I saved on shipping this way. and unlike what others here have said, things always arrive on time or earlier. maybe that's just a Germany thing tho
I stopped Amazon Prime because it when from being "your package will be at your house in two days" to "your package might leave our facility in two days and arrive to you some indeterminate time later."
I also feel like anytime I get on Amazon now, I might as well be on Alibaba, but it's 10x the price. It's hard to find good things because there are so many cheap factory direct products with smashed-my-face-against-the-keyboard brand names. There's a Jansport backpack for sale, but you have to sort through all the bags from JDOEBG, AHIXBX, and PRJAGG first.
This is so annoying cuz it happens to me as well, yea its 2 day shipping.. . After it spends 4 or 5 days in processing
This is the reason I hemmed over my subscription for a few years, and after they announced they were adding ads to Prime Video, that was the final straw. I've ordered maybe 1 or 2 things without a subscription since, but I'm really happy with how much I'm able to get much faster and better elsewhere.
Amazon: the dropshipping website white people named.
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