If they add that when I'm already paying for prime they can keep it, I won't renew.
Same. I'm not even sure why I have it now. Shipping is atrocious even though I'm less than 5 miles from a distribution center. I barely buy from them anymore since I don't know if I'm going to get a used returned item or not.
What alternatives are there?
Plenty. I got next day delivery from Best Buy earlier this week. Most franchises offer similar in order to compete, and you typically dont even need a membership, just a minimum dollar amount on the order. Stop in at your local small shops if you can, but otherwise order from anyone but Amazon.
I agree, but also had to chuckle at that in order to combat Amazon we need to turn to big box stores. 😂
You mentioned small shops/local too. I don’t want to ignore that!
“But Netflix did it and subscribers went up so we did it”
This is why voting with your wallet is so goddamn important
Yup
I'm planning a break from Amazon Prime then
Showing ads should only be acceptable for free services. If I'm paying for your service, you should not be force feeding me ads.
That's how it used to be last year, but the goal posts move every year to less value for consumers and more money to the billionaries.
Tell that to the cable networks. We all knew it was just a matter of time before streaming services got greedy, and now they're all trying it.
Sounds good! This'll come with a reduction in the cost of prime, right?
implied Anakin & Padme meme 😆
For sure, it’ll happen just after I get my refund for the lack of new content due to the writer’s strike. Any day now.
I just cancelled my prime membership
I told my girlfriend just now that we are cancelling... She was fine with it.
Bye prime.
Hoist the sails!
Good, already canceled last week. Let it burn.
I wish the warehouse workers would get a break..
I wanna say that corpos making decisions like this indicate a lack of oversight/sensibility but honestly it seems to be fucking working. I want to say that decisions like this would push the majority to piracy but the profits of these companies only seem to be going up as the monetary gain from these policies outweigh the money lost from the minority of people who do switch to piracy.
The convenience fee is only for convenience if you have the knowhow and willingness to put in the extra work required for the alternative
wanna say that corpos making decisions like this indicate a lack of oversight/sensibility but honestly it seems to be fucking working.
I think it's more of a sign that we've reached a natural demarcation point of capitalism. There's not a lot of ways for these service industries to achieve growth year over year, and a lot of them are dependent year over year growth to remain in solvency.
You can't lower production cost anymore, you're already paying people as little as possible. You've already run off any competition you could, except for maybe the one or two that would lead to destructive competition if you tried. The government won't let you conglomerate with your remaining competitors, because even they realize there needs to be at least an illusion of competition...... after all that, who's left to squeeze? Well we can't screw over the investors, that's the only crime we can actually be prosecuted for.
I guess it's time to fuck the consumer!
Agreed. And as described here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Huh, I didn't know there was a specific term for it. I just know similar things happened with the early rail and oil industries. When there's so much competition in a market the only way you can corner it by offering more than your competitors for less. Once you box out your competition, buy them out, or out last them you, can actually start making returns.
Poor Amazon just can't make ends meet
Whats the shipping times for non prime?
Legitimately not any slower if you live in an area with a warehouse.
I did prime for a bit, the ONLY thing I liked was not having a minium purchase. But everything is so expensive these days that's $35 minimum purchase is in no way hard for free shipping.
Like 3 days, lol
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