Amazon doubles minimum spend for free delivery - now £20

I just use 12 email address with Prime and rotate them each month. They are even numbered 1-12. After 12 months you get another free months trial.

Simple... :)
 
Werewolf said:
Given that they've had the current limit for about 5 years and the cost of postage increases from the likes of RM I'm not surprised they've done it to be honest.

Having said that it doesn't really affect me, I moved to prime when I realised how often I was paying for speedy dispatch/delivery.
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Me too.
On most of the stuff I order I choose to NOT have next day delivery and get a £1 credit for digital purchases.
 
I'm surprised they haven't put the minimum price up for free delivery already - most other places are already £20.

Also surprised they haven't put the price up for prime though hoping they don't, though guessing if a lot of people are taking advantage of it as above they eventually will.
 
Rroff said:
I'm surprised they haven't put the minimum price up for free delivery already - most other places are already £20.

Also surprised they haven't put the price up for prime though hoping they don't, though guessing if a lot of people are taking advantage of it as above they eventually will.
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Yep, the 'honest' people will suffer.
 
So, you have to spend £20 instead of £10, big deal! Grow up those that are moaning!! Amazon provide a great service
 
I find it a tricky one. I have an academic email address so I could easily get prime for 39 quid, but even at that low amount I'm not sure I'll make use out of it. Tempted now that the minimum is £20 quid though.
 
scorza said:
Do people actually buy blu-rays?
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Apparently, probably the ones who live in a place stuck in 2001 internet speed wise...

I still ( like always) wish optical media dies out as soon as possible, slow, messy, annoying, old rubbish tech...

If you want physical media: Flash or external hdd's all the way. Why would you want to use crud like blurays if you can carry a small 2.5'' 1tb hdd with you, or a couple of tiny USB sticks ?
Otherwise a decent fiber or cable connection is far superior...

Your hard drive blows up and takes all your 1080p HD movies with it...


Now what?
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Click download.
Go down for a coffee/tea/poo.
Come back in a couple of minutes ( about 7 minutes for a 10gb movie).
Click play.
Faster than searching for a bloody optical disc and putting it in a bluray player, looking through all the warnings, etc, or even buying one.
Or in case of popcorn time: type in name of movie, click play, plays within 5 seconds...

And like the other guy said, no need to keep it after 1 watch.
 
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There is no quality comparison between a blu ray disc and a download.
I've seen no streams that can match it

The disc is only to get that quality.
The film is indeed then ripped to a hard drive nas/server
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Use you favourite media player for full quality films.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
I just use 12 email address with Prime and rotate them each month. They are even numbered 1-12. After 12 months you get another free months trial.

Simple... :)
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So you basically need to create 12 separate accounts then? Or can you change your email addy within your amazon account to accommodate?
 
al4x said:
There is no quality comparison between a blu ray disc and a download.
I've seen no streams that can match it

The disc is only to get that quality.
The film is indeed then ripped to a hard drive nas/server
Indexed
Use you favourite media player for full quality films.
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That depends on the compression, you can easily get 1:1 copies of bluray online. It's not very popular though as most people will not see the difference in quality, for me persoanlly 720p is good enough ( though I can see the difference with 1080p slightly), and I don't care about DTS-HD or Dolby-HD, the neighbours complain if I turn my receivers volume up to the levels where the quality would be noticeable and I'm watching on an old-ish 32'' TV.

I can't personally see any difference between MPEG-4 AVC @ 40+ gb per film and and a 20gb or even just 10gb x264 compressed film.
 
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I feel prime is a bit on the steep side, I wouldn't ever make use of the videos to justify £79 a year!
 
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