cancelling Amazon Prime

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was just wondering as my first year of prime is up for renewal
if anybody had previously cancelled were they offered a cheaper
" stay with us " deal? lol

cheers :D
 
Nope i have never been offered such a deal and wasn't willing to renew after my first year ( bought when the service launched for like £18 ) by the time it was up for renewal it was just a ridiculous price.
 
It is stupid expensive. But we watch prime and probably have 4 separate orders a week to this house arrive next day.

We might cancel next year and see how living without it is...let's face it, it's a luxury...and a weird "i want it know!" one at that.
 
I used to have Sky tv, Prime is a hell of a lot cheaper after that! I've more than had my monies worth over the year with free next day delivery on stuff. £79 a year is what, £1.52 a week?
Nobody 'needs' it though.
 
Vargas said:
It's great value considering what you get. I suppose it's what you consider expensive.
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Depends how often you order stuff I guess - I get loads of odds and ends for electronics projects, etc. on an almost weekly basis so works out good value for me.
 
Rroff said:
Depends how often you order stuff I guess - I get loads of odds and ends for electronics projects, etc. on an almost weekly basis so works out good value for me.
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Same here, same day deliveries have saved me a drive into town. And with all the extras it's a bargain.
 
lnoton said:
It is stupid expensive. .
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:confused: it is anything but, it is amazing value for many when compared to competition. its essentially same price as Netflix or Spotify, yet you get video, music, photo storage, free next day delivery etc.

Its the only one I still keep, after cancelling other services.

and I've never heard of discounts outside of student one.
 
Glaucus said:
:confused: it is anything but, it is amazing value for many when compared to competition. its essentially same price as Netflix or Spotify, yet you get video, music, photo storage, free next day delivery etc.

Its the only one I still keep, after cancelling other services.

and I've never heard of discounts outside of student one.
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Yeah but not if you don't use those services. But overall, yes it is.

Unfortunately, l only need the storage so it's also not for me.
 
Glaucus said:
:confused: it is anything but, it is amazing value for many when compared to competition. its essentially same price as Netflix or Spotify, yet you get video, music, photo storage, free next day delivery etc.

Its the only one I still keep, after cancelling other services.

and I've never heard of discounts outside of student one.
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I don't personally think those services are comparable though. Sure for instance prime video and netflix are a online media delivery service. But their content simply cannot be compared. Although Amazon have been making some phenomenal strides with this lately. As above, if you don't use all of those services ( i suspect most don't ) then it really isn't exactly to competitive.
 
413x said:
Yeah but not if you don't use those services. But overall, yes it is.

Unfortunately, l only need the storage so it's also not for me.
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the person I quoted does use the service, and if you don't use the service that doesn't make it poor value. it just makes it not a service for you. you can still look at how much other services pay and go that's great value, even if you don't want it or use it.
 
I'd say it was worth it for the delivery alone if Amazon Logistics wasn't such a pain to deal with. I'd probably pay more if they offered a 'Use Royal Mail only' option.
 
I've had Prime for a few years now and never been offered a reduced price to stay. Last year I switched from having Prime in my name to my wife's, as they ran the £59 Grand Tour offer. That is the only time, apart from Student deals, I've seen it discounted.

One thing you can do, and coincidentally I've just been on live chat with Amazon right now, is when you don't get a next day delivery lay it on thick with them and you should get a free month - which I did.

My membership was due for renewal in two weeks and as I'm trying to reduce monthly outgoings I considered cancelling, but as a family we use it so much - next day deliveries (or get £1 for no rush and buy movies), music & video streaming...I think it's reasonably good value. I wish their music streaming was better and I'm loathed to pay extra for the higher package, but my son loves his music and I'm considering Amazon against Spotify, etc.

I've also started paying for their cloud storage at £55 per year. I was paying $150 for Crashplan.

Amazon actually appear to be taking quite a lot of my £££. :eek:
 
booyaka said:
eh??

£79 for unlimited next day delivery, prime tv, prime music, unlimited photo storage backup, free twitch account - all for £1.51 a week?

Some people......:rolleyes::rolleyes:
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Was going to say the same.

No one moans about buying a pack of cigarettes at £9 each day but moan about a huge amount of stuff for £1.51 a week.
 
lnoton said:
It is stupid expensive.
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£79 a year for everything you get included (even if you don't use half of it) is not "stupid expensive".

harry5522 said:
I don't personally think those services are comparable though. Sure for instance prime video and netflix are a online media delivery service. But their content simply cannot be compared. Although Amazon have been making some phenomenal strides with this lately. As above, if you don't use all of those services ( i suspect most don't ) then it really isn't exactly to competitive.
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It's very competitive (it's Amazon, so of course it is), because you're getting a number of similar services for less than any of the single dedicated ones charge. Nobody's claiming it's a Netflix or Spotify beaterm but there's still a lot there.

The problem probably is that people think £79 a year sounds a bit pricey, whereas £6.60 a month really isn't.
 
I've had decent monthly extensions when I've complained about things.
Never had a renewal discount. Though I think it's good value overall anyway. Yes Spotify is better, not sure I'd say Netflix is but that's my view.
But i use all the services they offer, bar the kindle book, and to have them all separate would cost a lot more for a little gain.
 
Worth it just for the free delivery, the video stuff is a bonus (dont use it for anything else yet).
 
Actually I cancelled earlier this year, Amazon then sent me a £20 voucher valid for use only when/if I re subscribe.

Unfortunately in the approximately 3 weeks we were without it we needed to order stuff, with delivery costs beyond the value of subscription. We also missed the video, which I would say is ballpark comparable to netflix (both for kids and adults). So i never got my £20 off but I still see it as the best value service of netflix nowTV and amazon video/prime, though none are comparable, delivery is unlike the other 2, netflix is broad, nowTV is fewer "high value" shows.

That said I have complained to Amazon customer service as I think prime delivery is being diluted and failing far more often than it once did.
If that wasn't being counteracted by the primenow service being available within 2hr generally, I may have possibly dropped it by now.

On cancelling, I cancelled nowTV around black Friday as they had 3 months entertainment pass for a £5 for NEW customers only, we're on the missus email now, as that started to run out they periodically send my old account offers, so if you switch between 2 users you can probably pull the £7 month to nearer £5 month.

Similarly I started to cancel our Virgin media, I told them the TV is valueless to me (we were on the tivo/freeview any way) and I don't use anytime Phone.
Basically they dropped our cost from £55 to £40, doubled the broadband from 50Mb to 100Mb, dropped the free calls to the weekend only and left us with the tivo.
Could be cheaper, maybe if I went for 4G Mobile broadband but BT/et al are far slower in my location.
 
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