Why is Amazon Prime's pricing model so broken?

[Narj]

Hope this doesn't qualify as competitor speak as this is about the streaming service.

I have Prime mostly for deliveries but got a Fire Stick and thought I'd check out some stuff last night. Having a browse through the stuff that isn't included as part of the subscription, I'm astonished at how broken some of their pricing is.

Example: Game of Thrones Season 1

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Season-Epi...3447613&sr=8-1&keywords=game+of+thrones+prime

Buy season one HD for £99.99!

or for £13.49 on Blu-Ray:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Thron...7760&sr=8-2&keywords=game+of+thrones+season+1

What's going on? Surely they can't have many takers for that? No wonder Kodi with particular plugins is so popular these days!

 

[Narj]

Mis-price - it should be £99.99 for all 6 seasons.

Well it says ~£100 in the GUI on the FireStick. This isn't the only series that's priced this way.

Unless my FireStick is going nuts, go check out the pricing within the Prime Video GUI... Maybe someone somewhere has messed something up!

 

[Narj]

Fair enough, it seems someone definitely needs to look at their mispricing though as I found several broken ones last night where "buy series x" was a silly amount of cash.

Prime seems to be a way to lull you into paying for content because the selection of free streaming is pretty dire. Methinks I'll watch all the GT episodes on there and cancel tbh.

 

[Narj]

It's HBO content and nothing to do with your Prime membership. It would cost exactly the same if you weren't a Prime member.

It's a bit like blaming Sky because you have to pay separately for BT Sport.

Fair enough - I suppose it's easy to feel a bit narked at having all that stuff seemingly "available" when you search for it and then discovering you have to pay for it despite a subscription. I'm probably too used to US Netflix.

 

[Narj]

on the website at least you can just chose see only free for prime.

Seems you have to look in "Your Video" to have the same effective filter. Last night was a matter of *click* "oh..." *click* "oh..where is the free stuff?" until I discovered that. :S

Quite impressed with the firestick though. Pretty snappy for such a little thing.

 

[Narj]

Before you do cancel it, watch Start up and Bosch, both great Amazon Prime series.

Cheers, I'll check those out!

Not entirely true, you wouldn't be able to watch it on phone, tablet or possibly laptop either as you'd need a drive and the physical media.

*cough* rip or actually, some titles (UV?) let you download a copy to your devices anyway?