I’ve been a Prime member from the very beginning, but I’m seriously reevaluating whether I should drop it. The value proposition is decreasing for me. At $99 I thought it was pretty good considering the perks like video and music. But then they crippled Prime Music a few months back so it’s a shadow of what it once was (pushing you to subscribe to Unlimited). Now Prime Video is getting ads. Those “extras” are becoming less compelling. So I’m paying $140 annually for just free shipping? Hmmm, these numbers don’t add up anymore.
I’ve been a Prime member from the very beginning, but I’m seriously reevaluating whether I should drop it. The value proposition is decreasing for me. At $99 I thought it was pretty good considering the perks like video and music. But then they crippled Prime Music a few months back so it’s a shadow of what it once was (pushing you to subscribe to Unlimited). Now Prime Video is getting ads. Those “extras” are becoming less compelling. So I’m paying $140 annually for just free shipping? Hmmm, these numbers don’t add up anymore.
Great news is that Amazon has also added delivery fee for same day and overnight deliveries for Prime members. At least in UK
So basically it’s too much payment for not much of benefits
Additionally, ordering from other sites was a gamble a few years ago. Now its a well mapped path and its pretty painless.
You still get free shipping as a non member if you buy like $25 worth of shit. And you might get it in 3 days instead of 1 (the horror)
But yeah, that’s about all you’re getting and no it’s not worth it.
They just recently upped free shipping to $35 in stuff
I figured it might have changed considering the last time I ordered something from there was about 6 months ago
If they are gonna run ads, I may drop it and just stick with their ad streaming service freevee if they gonna do that.
You’re getting it for 140? I think I pay 180. Seeing the service continually get worse and worse has me close to canceling too.
Their change to Music already made me go and get Spotify instead.
Shoving ads in Video as well makes that shit an easy cancel.