Amazon Prime sucks massive donkey balls

Being a prime sub gives you better customer services etc. other than that it doesn’t really offer much.

The free next day delivery is nice but free delivery is available on orders over £20 and free premium delivery is available on order over £40/50 I think.

Amazon video and music are pretty useless these days. Music app specifically is crap. We bought a couple of albums (educational stuff) to play offline in the car, and after 2yrs some of the tracks in the albums are unplayable. When asked about it, they just said technical fault and refunded the purchase then took the albums off our account without asking. I said better customer services - if you don’t have prime, I guess you get nothing back.

Video content - barely anything watchable. The shows I love - The Boys, Invincible etc, they take forever to bring out new episodes and season.

Probably not really worth the £80/yr anymore.
 
CrispyOtter said:
With the extra £2.99 a month does that not put it on par with Netflix standard membership? So next Amazon will charge £5 more for UHD content too :p
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If Netflix start delivering my shopping, backing up my photos then yes it will be on par. Plus like you mention UHD and HDR are extra on Netflix.
 
What a shame about the ads. I'll probably keep it. We buy so much off there I want the fast delivery honestly. I'll just live with the ads as we don't use prime a lot for video stuff. Depends how bad they get. If I get into a series and the ads are in the middle of TV episodes or a film then I won't be able to stand that. They already have been showing ads before a show/film starts anyway for ages, but I guess they have been skippable.
 
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darkgen said:
Eh. I think I get cheated out of UHD content anyways. Whenever I try to play a film with the UHD logo, it plays 1080p. Prime TV shows play in UHD though.
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Are you watching on a PC? Pretty sure they don't support UHD on browsers, but they do play in UHD directly on the app on my TV (not that there's much UHD content anyway!)

@pc-guy - £95/yr now anyway, since Sept 2022
 
TrojanWhore said:
Are you watching on a PC? Pretty sure they don't support UHD on browsers, but they do play in UHD directly on the app on my TV (not that there's much UHD content anyway!)

@pc-guy - £95/yr now anyway, since Sept 2022
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All on OLED TV. UHD tagged films use to play just fine but over the last year I now rarely see see the "Dolby" or "HDR" logo flash when launching. Works fine on the Prime TV shows.
 
darkgen said:
All on OLED TV. UHD tagged films use to play just fine but over the last year I now rarely see see the "Dolby" or "HDR" logo flash when launching. Works fine on the Prime TV shows.
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Ah fair enough, probably over a year since I watched something via my TV anyway as I find the UI too clunky, but it worked when I first tried it. Can barely see the difference (non-HDR) anyway from sofa distance so the trade off isn't worth it to me and I just use my PC for everything
 
jaybee said:
What a shame about the ads. I'll probably keep it. We buy so much off there I want the fast delivery honestly. I'll just live with the ads as we don't use prime a lot for video stuff. Depends how bad they get. If I get into a series and the ads are in the middle of TV episodes or a film then I won't be able to stand that. They already have been showing ads before a show/film starts anyway for ages, but I guess they have been skippable.
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If you buy a lot prime isn’t necessary. Lots of stuff means you get free delivery anyway. Bigger order you will get free next day delivery as well. Prime is really for people order small things here and there and need it next day.
 
pc-guy said:
If you buy a lot prime isn’t necessary. Lots of stuff means you get free delivery anyway. Bigger order you will get free next day delivery as well. Prime is really for people order small things here and there and need it next day.
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There are loads of times where it's the cheapest place I can get something and it will come next day regardless of cost though. Like even if it's something that's £5, I can get it next day. That's the convenience of it. I don't have to bundle my order to over £20 or whatever. It's saved me so many times where I've needed something quick. I just add it to basket and pay...next day boom. Think of something an hour later... no problem. Buy it and it's delivered tomorrow.
 
I always saw the prime video as a nice little bonus rather than a primary reason to sign up for Amazon Prime. The delivery benefits and various sales and discounts you get are far more valuable to me and more than make up for the subscription price, But I definitely won't be paying an extra fee just to watch Amazon Prime videos without ads..
 
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Just had the same email, use prime delivery a fair bit and I dont think we have watched hardly anything on prime video.

Just auto renewed too so may aswell suck it up for another year.
 
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