Amazon Prime sucks massive donkey balls

Amazon has been a bit of a blessing to those living in northern Scotland and the islands due to their free delivery (forgetting the cost of Prime for a second). Companies that advertise free delivery almost always have a disclaimer that it's free only for mainland Britain; somehow a large section of Britain suddenly falls off as they redefine what a mainland is. The additional levy can be north of £15 per delivery.
Amazon changed that and opened up markets to northern folk that were just too expensive to have shipped previously. Yes, you're paying for it through Prime but it costs in very quickly and delivery times have improved greatly with most items arriving the next day.
 
V F said:
In what way? I can't say I've had any issues yet but I last used their customer service to return an item for a refund last August. There was no issues. Then ordered a replacement and all was fine.
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I won't go in to a detailed response as a) it'll take too long and b) it'll just annoy me again. Suffice to say I cancelled with Three after they more than tripled their PAYG prices, and then spent two months trying to get a refund of my remaining credit that they confirmed I would get within 3 - 5 working days. Utterly **** company who will never get my business again!
 
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Just recently i have noticed all the amazon music i used to listen to is now exclusive to amazon music unlimited. Amazon can suck my b***s tbh. really miffed me.

Edit: songs like bon jovi bad medicine, slipknot duality. All that echo etc says its going to shuffle similar tunes. Useless.
 
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Here in the USA, seems like more and more items are getting delayed in transit even when they are at the Amazon hub.
 
Rather than start a new thread I'll ask in here....

Is it just me or has Amazon stopped showing price changes for items in your basket/saved for later?
 
sja360 said:
Just recently i have noticed all the amazon music i used to listen to is now exclusive to amazon music unlimited. Amazon can suck my b***s tbh. really miffed me.

Edit: songs like bon jovi bad medicine, slipknot duality. All that echo etc says its going to shuffle similar tunes. Useless.
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Jesus, it's unusable unless you pay extra for 'unlimited', they couldn't have made it more obnoxious with constant upgrade popups at every other click. The inability to actually play music you want is icing on the cake. You're not winning us over, Amazon.

It's also slow I general, you download music but takes an age to load album lists, which I expect is because of DRM checks, all sorts of stuff we don't care about, like 120p album images you already have...but just incase we'll check again then make you wait. It really needs an offline mode that's actually offline.
 
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sja360 said:
Just recently i have noticed all the amazon music i used to listen to is now exclusive to amazon music unlimited. Amazon can suck my b***s tbh. really miffed me.
Edit: songs like bon jovi bad medicine, slipknot duality. All that echo etc says its going to shuffle similar tunes. Useless.
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Personally I'm not bothered about the music benefits os Amazon Prime. I don't use it much at all. But I did receive a marketing email from Amazon on the 2nd November. It said
"We continue to invest in making Prime even more valuable for members – we have improved your Amazon Music Prime benefit at no additional cost:
More ad-free music, increasing from 2 million songs on-demand to over 100 million songs in shuffle mode plus a selection of on-demand playlists".

Looks good on the face of it but I wonder how transparent that wording is. Is it just marketing spiel? Big promises, small delivery? Dunno.
 
V_R said:
Is it just me or has Amazon stopped showing price changes for items in your basket/saved for later?
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still working for me @windows/chrome/ublock , but if you have sessions on multiple devices perhaps another one received (daily?) notification alert.

pity it doesn't show a tracker graph to show upward trend

.. pretty sure amazon tracks ip addresses
 
Mysterae_ said:
Amazon has been a bit of a blessing to those living in northern Scotland and the islands due to their free delivery (forgetting the cost of Prime for a second). Companies that advertise free delivery almost always have a disclaimer that it's free only for mainland Britain; somehow a large section of Britain suddenly falls off as they redefine what a mainland is. The additional levy can be north of £15 per delivery.
Amazon changed that and opened up markets to northern folk that were just too expensive to have shipped previously. Yes, you're paying for it through Prime but it costs in very quickly and delivery times have improved greatly with most items arriving the next day.
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The business I started made huge headway into the NI / Highlands market due to us not charging a premium - it really seemed to be a huge selling point.

We still don’t some 10 years later, even if it costs us a bit more the return custom more than pays for it.
 
Not Prime, but it's always irked me that the closest Amazon lockers to me are on the local university campus, behind doors that require a security card to access. Just started a new job and was very surprised to find that down in the bowels, bizarrely right next to the mortuary entrance/exit, is a large bank of Amazon lockers.
 
UTmaniac said:
What's with Amazon saying "order in the next 2hrs for guaranteed delivery tomorrow," you then ponder and decide to order ~90mins later, to find you now have guaranteed delivery the day after tomorrow? :mad:
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I ordered on the 30th Oct because it stated 31st delivery and once paid for and checked order it then stated 1st - 12th Nov, so clicked the business link to speed it up and got a 9th - 12th delivery.

Spoke to support who blamed couriers, who just went back to couriers when I pointed out it was being fulfilled by Amazon.

Got email last night showing it will be here today.
 
I don't like Amazon at all, greasy company, literally taking the wealth out of this country so Jeff can play his his phalus rockets.

They undercut local business, treat staff like garbage, and avoid taxes.

But I don't blame them, I blame you people who keep spending money there.
 
BUDFORCE said:
I don't like Amazon at all, greasy company, literally taking the wealth out of this country so Jeff can play his his phalus rockets.

They undercut local business, treat staff like garbage, and avoid taxes.

But I don't blame them, I blame you people who keep spending money there.
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Agreed.
I admit to using Amazon, a lot, for convenience and price. I completely agree with you though BUDFORCE. I should really be a bit more discerning and spread my consumer purchases around a bit. The power that Amazon has in the consumer market has gotten out of hand. Market domination almost.
 
BUDFORCE said:
I don't like Amazon at all, greasy company, literally taking the wealth out of this country so Jeff can play his his phalus rockets.

They undercut local business, treat staff like garbage, and avoid taxes.

But I don't blame them, I blame you people who keep spending money there.
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Certain irony - most of the stuff I buy through Amazon is because I know I'll have some comeback and/or less likely to encounter dodgy sellers - trying to buy elsewhere is a minefield of scamming attempts, ineptness or poor customer service.

These days much of the stuff I buy through Amazon there isn't a local business alternative anyhow.
 
I've got an iPhone 14 Pro Max on order with Amazon since 6th of October and as of the 9th of November I could no longer cancel instead it says...

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DISPATCHING SOON. CANCELLATION ISN'T GUARANTEED.​

We're preparing this order for shipment. If you'd like to cancel item(s) from this order, select the Cancel Item box next to the item(s) and click on "Request cancellation". We'll do our best to cancel the item(s) selected.

I guess this means they now have stock and are preparing it for shipment, just a bit worried as it's been a couple of days and no further movement, guess I've just got to be more patient right? I'm not a Prime customer either.
 
nlel1975 said:
I've got an iPhone 14 Pro Max on order with Amazon since 6th of October and as of the 9th of November I could no longer cancel instead it says...

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DISPATCHING SOON. CANCELLATION ISN'T GUARANTEED.​

We're preparing this order for shipment. If you'd like to cancel item(s) from this order, select the Cancel Item box next to the item(s) and click on "Request cancellation". We'll do our best to cancel the item(s) selected.

I guess this means they now have stock and are preparing it for shipment, just a bit worried as it's been a couple of days and no further movement, guess I've just got to be more patient right? I'm not a Prime customer either.
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Who was the actual seller? Not Amazon?
 
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