Amazon Prime sucks massive donkey balls

hamesy said:
We tried to watch a film on Saturday night on Prime Video. 30 minutes in and we had 3 sets of adverts. We ended up switching it off and watching something else.
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Adverts literally ruin films, and ruin them completely. There is just no point in sitting down to watch a film if there's going to be 5 mins of adverts every 10 mins..

Even more so because many places cut scenes from the film to fit more damned adverts in...

Maybe I'm old and fussy but I just won't watch anything with ad breaks any more. Drives me crazy.

To pay a sub and still have ads is absolutely taking the pee to the greatest extent humanly possible.
 
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I just use pick up locations which make any order free delivery regardless of cost. Usually comes next day or the day after.

Using streaming services is a odd one you have to sign up to so many to get access and lots of stuff isn't even available anymore.
 
I rarely use the Prime video streaming service, used to use it a little years ago but rarely nowadays. I did notice the odd time I've browsed recently that a lot of the content is paid for (on top of a Prime sub) nowadays etc
 
I cancelled Prime 6 months ago and have not missed it. My new years resolution is not use Amazon for anything. I'm doing fine so far, I don't buy a lot anyway but when I do need something I can generally get it on eBay with free delivery for a very similar price. The only thing I might struggle with is Kindle books.
 
FoxEye said:
Adverts literally ruin films, and ruin them completely. There is just no point in sitting down to watch a film if there's going to be 5 mins of adverts every 10 mins..

Even more so because many places cut scenes from the film to fit more damned adverts in...

Maybe I'm old and fussy but I just won't watch anything with ad breaks any more. Drives me crazy.

To pay a sub and still have ads is absolutely taking the pee to the greatest extent humanly possible.
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Head over to the youtube premium thread and people will be telling you that it's your moral imperative to watch all the adverts every 10 seconds to support the creators lol.
 
neilw said:
I cancelled Prime 6 months ago and have not missed it. My new years resolution is not use Amazon for anything. I'm doing fine so far, I don't buy a lot anyway but when I do need something I can generally get it on eBay with free delivery for a very similar price. The only thing I might struggle with is Kindle books.
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I bought a number of blu-ray sets from eBay before xmas from good sellers and they were much cheaper than amazon
 
I still have my Prime Subscription for now, but I've actively been shopping elsewhere online.

For the cheap stuff and things eBay is the same as Amazon just takes a day or two longer to arrive, for the more specialist things I've been looking at smaller shops and businesses instead of defaulting to Amazon.

Feels good, annoyed I didn't make this switch away sooner.
 
Thinking of limiting my purchases now, more often than not any time I return something (either not as described or inadequate performance etc) it’s taking weeks or longer to refund which is frustrating.

I buy far too much and return so little so can’t imagine it’s a quantity thing, seems on Reddit it’s happening a lot to others.
 
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Kol said:
Thinking of limiting my purchases now, more often than not any time I return something (either not as described or inadequate performance etc) it’s taking weeks or longer to refund which is frustrating.

I buy far too much and return so little so can’t imagine it’s a quantity thing, seems on Reddit it’s happening a lot to others.
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Are you just buying cheap tat?

In fairness, because you must return so much stuff, they are probably checking all your returns.

Whenever I have returned anything, I got a refund as soon as the item was put in the mail.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Are you just buying cheap tat?

In fairness, because you must return so much stuff, they are probably checking all your returns.

Whenever I have returned anything, I got a refund as soon as the item was put in the mail.
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sometimes depending on value, they will wait for it to be returned, it just depends in some instances.
 
b0rn2sk8 said:
Are you just buying cheap tat?

In fairness, because you must return so much stuff, they are probably checking all your returns.

Whenever I have returned anything, I got a refund as soon as the item was put in the mail.
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I’ve returned three things in four months. I wouldn’t say cheap tat and also not a lot in volume. One was a Zyxel 5g router, one a bottle rain-x (at Christmas) arrived smashed to pieces but there was no option to replace, only refund but I had to send it back and the other was an iPhone case in October, I ordered for the 15 pro and got a 15.

Before then, I haven’t returned anything since June and even then it wasn’t simply because I didn’t want it.

Previously they’ve always been instant, but one thing I’ve noticed is with these items are sold by someone else but fulfilled by Amazon. Other items I’ve returned were often sold by Amazon and fulfilled by Amazon. Possibly that.
 
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Kol said:
Previously they’ve always been instant, but one thing I’ve noticed is with these items are sold by someone else but fulfilled by Amazon. Other items I’ve returned were often sold by Amazon and fulfilled by Amazon. Possibly that.
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It's that.

I only asked the question because Amazon is just loaded to the gills with utter trash these days. Finding what you want if you don't know exactly what you want is a nightmare these days.

To be honest, I tend to avoid anything not sold by Amazon on Amazon because it tends to be available for less elsewhere. Amazon's sellers fees are higher than ebay so if you want some cheep Chinese tat, its always a good 5-10% cheaper on the bay with free shipping.
 
Oh I agree @b0rn2sk8 - I was looking for a right angle usb adaptor earlier. Tonnes of cheap unknown brands, all £6 when the identical item is on AliExpress for less than a quid. Sure, it might go missing in the post but willing to take the risk.

Likewise, I wanted to hardwire my dashcam, same item half price new on eBay and got it the next day, free shipping. I think, like you say, best to be selective of who is actually selling the item from now on.
 
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