Amazon Prime sucks massive donkey balls

Up for renewal at the end of the month and am considering cancelling, as we are getting ****** with seeing things we had started to watch and left for a while, now having added payment to view, or having to sign up to another streamer.
 
Amazon checkout trickery/traps to try and get you to accidentally sign up for prime, and avoid the free postage>£25, is a game.

I'd love to know if at the final buy button press it will give you a summary that shows you what you have done.
 
jpaul said:
Amazon checkout trickery/traps to try and get you to accidentally sign up for prime, and avoid the free postage>£25, is a game.

I'd love to know if at the final buy button press it will give you a summary that shows you what you have done.
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You have to click through many screens to sign up, it's not like you can do it by accident unless you are paying 0 attention.

Free delivery is easily gotten around by using pick up locations/locker. No minimum spend.
 
jpaul said:
you then have to drive/travel to a location/locker ? or, it is just a ruse and you get it delivered to you free no minimum spend ?
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I have a locker in my works car park so not exactly a trouble lol
Also have one next to a b&m I pass on the way for a food shop/to work. No effort at all.

If you have to go out your way to a pick up location/locker fair enough but where I live there's so many
 
Diddums said:
Getting fed up with Prime. They used to be awesome, same day delivery on many products and guaranteed next day for 99% of their stock. My Astro A50s died so I want to order new ones. £250 on Amazon which is the going rate, great thinks I, I'll order it on Prime Now and have it in a couple of hours. Price? £350. £100 more for same day delivery. Fair enough, I can use an alternative for the night and get them delivered tomorrow. Can I? No. Wednesday soonest. It's not like I live in the sticks either.

Prime cancelled. Not worth paying extra for delivery which can be had free elsewhere.


/Rant
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"A couple of hours" - for where I am in the south west, that delivery time frame is crazy talk. :cry:
 
eldergeek said:
"A couple of hours" - for where I am in the south west, that delivery time frame is crazy talk. :cry:
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100%. What is even odder is that the model is garbage enough to break and he wants more of the same?

Stu999 said:
Had an Amazon parcel delivered by DPD. Thought it was strange as the item value was £11.75.
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Depending on product you can get a bit of anything. I've had Royal Mail, Amazon, DPD, Evri etc......
 
Firestar_3x said:
My Prime was set to renew for the year on the 17th, had it for over a decade and just cancelled, have 0 intention to pay for a service and still watch adverts.
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Even though I dont buy from Amazon as much as I used to, I kept Prime just to have the freedom to watch their movies and TV shows whenever I wanted.

These ads just cross a line though. Unfortunately my renewal is not until September, but I've just selected to get a reminder 3 days before, and I will be cancelling it as well. Massive step back by Amazon
 
Johno please? said:
Anyone got a ring camera? See its going up in price again to £50 a year now, hilarious.

Id rather not have the recorded footage tbh.
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A2Z said:
Even though I dont buy from Amazon as much as I used to, I kept Prime just to have the freedom to watch their movies and TV shows whenever I wanted.

These ads just cross a line though. Unfortunately my renewal is not until September, but I've just selected to get a reminder 3 days before, and I will be cancelling it as well. Massive step back by Amazon
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I think if you cancel early you get a pro-rata refund.
 
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Firestar_3x said:
I think if you cancel early you get a pro-rata refund.
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I cancelled my Amazon video channels after the ads started and they said pro-rata refund but just refunded the full amount :s didn't really care either way for the sake of a few quid, if it wasn't for cancelling on the basis of ads I'd just stopped the subscription instead of going for a refund as well :s
 
Johno please? said:
Anyone got a ring camera? See its going up in price again to £50 a year now, hilarious.

Id rather not have the recorded footage tbh.
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Cancelled next renewal as soon as I received the email, but my subscription renewed for a year last December so 10 months before it ends. This money-grabbing attempt is going to cost them through loss of not only currrent subscribers but also potential new sales. Plenty of subscription-free alternatives out there now.
 
ChrisLX200 said:
Cancelled next renewal as soon as I received the email, but my subscription renewed for a year last December so 10 months before it ends. This money-grabbing attempt is going to cost them through loss of not only currrent subscribers but also potential new sales. Plenty of subscription-free alternatives out there now.
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Is there? Got a link to a few of the free ones.

Reports that you also loose Dolby Atmos and Dolby Vision unless you pay the extra as well.
 
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I cancelled. It actually fits into a new mindset I've been trying to adopt anyway; I now buy more physical media, have disposed of anything like sky etc. and just opted to slow it down a little. I suppose I should thank amazon really.
 
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