Amazon Prime sucks massive donkey balls

I already cancelled mine a year ago, I get the odd offer for a month free on it, and I rarely get anything delivered these days, so the £20 free delivery thing is mostly fine if I'm a little more patient.
 
No price rise is welcome, but with energy/fuel prices (as so many are pointing out) it's almost inevitable, however we do get (as a household) Plenty of VFM so will continue with it.. (Our renewal is not due until May next year!)

Oddly I seem to watch more Prime Video content than Netflix which is probably what I'll cancel next.
 
Tbh if I'd only recently got it I'd be annoyed at the big price increase, but we've had it for a long time.
 
I no longer order fragile items from them but they're still often the cheapest for a lot of things. Especially by the time you add in travel and time. The drivers are very hit or miss I find though these days.
 
It was always going to go up unfortunately. We use it a hell of a lot at the moment. Having young kids means we're constantly finding out things that we need.

Dropping NowTV Sport and BT Sport though. A combination of Youtube and Match of The Day highlights will cover the football for me.
 
Cantankerous said:
I no longer order fragile items from them but they're still often the cheapest for a lot of things. Especially by the time you add in travel and time. The drivers are very hit or miss I find though these days.
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I use the lockers or deliver to my local Co-op as a drop-off point a lot. I rarely ever see the driver. I do this because the Co-op opens until 10pm and the lockers are 24/7. They are both close to home so I collect when it suits me and no need to worry about have to be at home when they deliver.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I use the lockers or deliver to my local Co-op as a drop-off point a lot. I rarely ever see the driver. I do this because the Co-op opens until 10pm and the lockers are 24/7. They are both close to home so I collect when it suits me and no need to worry about have to be at home when they deliver.
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I've never tried the lockers but they are close enough. Updating googlemaps address location helped a lot in drivers finding my place as the area is a rat run. The other issue is simply how boxes are kicked around or dropped. Ordered a bottle of rum the other month and heard the guy drop it outside building, completely shattered and he tried to play it off as that's how he got it, he was just covering someone else's shift etc.
 
I use Amazon a fair amount with some 200 orders each 12 months. Products are not always offered at a good price though so I always check elsewhere for items over £20 or so. Too much Chinese crap is on sale and that combined with a worthless review system are the biggest negatives. I also sub to Netflix but if it came down to a forced choice Netflix would go.
 
I was getting Disney+ with Tesco Clubcard points but haven’t renewed.

I get Amazon Prime through my Vitality life insurance.

Just finished Ozark and Stranger Things so will probably pause Netflix for a while.

I’ve also cancelled my Trainer Road subscription (indoor cycling turbo trainer app).

By themselves, each one isn’t too bad, but put them all together and it’s a decent chunk of change over the year. Never mind a Sky/Virgin/BT subscription on top.
 
Irish_Tom said:
I was getting Disney+ with Tesco Clubcard points but haven’t renewed.

I get Amazon Prime through my Vitality life insurance.

Just finished Ozark and Stranger Things so will probably pause Netflix for a while.

I’ve also cancelled my Trainer Road subscription (indoor cycling turbo trainer app).

By themselves, each one isn’t too bad, but put them all together and it’s a decent chunk of change over the year. Never mind a Sky/Virgin/BT subscription on top.
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That's what I got.
6 months of D+ for club card points.

Certainly won't be renewing. Struggling to find new stuff only 3 months in.


Great for kids. But not much good adult content (not that :p ) on there


Got stranger things, resident evil, new dota and a few others to watch on Netflix.
Gone are the days of subscribing perpetually to a service. That said I don't want to chop and change all the time.
 
Netflix and Prime are cheap compared to Sky/BT Sport.

Dropping BT Sport freed up like £30 a month, that’s more than Netflix, Prime and Disney + all put together. I only had it to watch perhaps 2 to 3 matches a week, and that’s when the Champion’s League was on, when they are not, it’s even less.

That was the first thing to go this year when I was cutting back, soon as the football season was over, it was canned. I more than halved my monthly subscription by doing that.
 
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HungryHippos said:
I already cancelled mine a year ago, I get the odd offer for a month free on it, and I rarely get anything delivered these days, so the £20 free delivery thing is mostly fine if I'm a little more patient.
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Cancelled mine months ago as well, it's just not worth it.

Don't order a huge amount anyway, but Argos are actually quite good and will deliver same day (and to the Sainsbury's local 2 mins from my door) and have a decent range of general stuff, without having to pick through all the guff reviews on amazon to find the least cheap and nasty item.

On the rare occasion that I do want to order something and Amazon is the best option now, they always dangle a 99p membership or similar deal, so just pay that, catch up on a few episodes on Prime video, then cancel again.
 
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