• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I canceled my Prime membership earlier this year because of that decline in quality. I wish everyone could, but thanks to the loss of retail throughout the country many can’t afford not to have it.

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      1 hour ago

      I have a feeling the big impact is going to be in other services, namely AWS. Makes me wonder if some new global outages are coming, which are always fun to deal with.

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        46 minutes ago

        Yeah, there’s going to be hilariously bad outages at AWS within like a year.

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          40 minutes ago

          Yeah… I didn’t choose it, but some of the services from my employer run there. May be a good time to make some moves, we’ll see.

          Not really going to be an issue I can fix obviously, but I’ll be making even more backups than normal…

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      16 minutes ago

      Prime is not a money saver. It’s a money waster that tricks you into buying more stuff just because “the shipping is free” but you can often get free shipping without Prime or Amazon. Just wait until you need enough stuff to meet the store’s free shipping threshold to make an order.

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      60 minutes ago

      My relatively poor experience with Prime I attribute to deliberate bad choices rather than lack of workers. It probably doesn’t help to be sure, but even with the most awesome staff, I think Prime was going to suck no matter what. The whole economy is particularly “screw the customers over, get us money now, no need to attract or retain customers now”