Ha, I just cancelled my prime. Nailed it.
What a bunch of cunts. FFS, it is never enough. Their return policy sucks now, too. It used to be that if Amazon fucked up your order, they’d refund you and you could keep the product. It made ordering online a relatively risk-free proposition. Now, they won’t refund you until you ship it back, even if it is their fuck up, which really kills the convenience factor. Plus, you get to over-pay for most things. What’s not to love?
What you describe at the end is how it became a monopoly.
The beginning is how a monopoly acts.
You expect a company to let you keep stuff that they send you wrongly? Let me know which company still has this policy. I need to trick them into sending me some very expensive graphic cards wrongfully
I didn’t say that they should, I said that they did. And they did it to overcome people’s hesitation to buy online. You take a risk ordering online because you don’t physically pick the item you want.
Your comment is relevant nonetheless since I suspect they stopped their original return policy because of scams.
It’s their responsibility to get product they sent wrongly back.
Yes, within reason. I’m actually not sure where that line is drawn though. Like whether sending a pre-paid shipping label and asking you to drop it off at a nearby UPS store is enough or if they actually have to have someone pick it up from your home or wherever it was shipped to.
You might already know this, but be mindful that if a company sent you the wrong thing and it wasn’t a gift or solicitation, (i.e. an error - even if it was a preventable error) you do legally have to give it back if asked. Which is fair IMO. If I’m sending something expensive and fat finger the address, I’d want it back too.
On the last return I did, I wasn’t reimbursed until it was received at their depot. Which was only an extra day.
Depends where you live but unsolicited goods acts will often let you keep stuff in this way.
The point is that Amazon would help you out when your stuff was broken, missing, or mistaken. They won’t lift a finger to fix their own errors now.
That’s not my experience. I recently got in touch with them about some Jabra earbuds that were just over two years old and had developed a fault. I was prepared to quote the UK consumer rights act to them, but it wasn’t necessary. They refunded them immediately and said I didn’t need to bother returning them.
People surely abused things and rather than take a measured approach, they brought out Thor’s hammer like a bunch of chuds.
Start? In the UK here and it has always had ads. Even on paid
Only for itself. Then they added Freevee stuff which had a load of obnoxious ads in. Now they’re adding that to everything, unless you pay extra.
Cancel. Amazon are a cancer.
No it doesn’t, it runs a trailer for something else before but I’ve never had ads mid program
Yeah we get that in the great white north. A immediately Skippable ad for a different show on prime. That is fine by me, however ads like on so many other services will mean I cancel and Maybe setup a plex.
Yeah, streaming services are losing the plot. I’m good lol.
Give it time and we’ll all be back on Netflix with all the catalogs available there.
Pirate services are cheaper and have better apps
Pirate “services”?
Servarr Suite. Netflix interface, piracy backend. Operates over Usenet. Can handle movies, tv, music and ebooks. I’ve been told there are viable workarounds for televised sports, specifically F1.
Nice to know I can finally cancel Prime though. The entire value proposition has now gone. Free shipping is hugely conditional (and prices are artificially jacked to cover it in the first place), and now they want to put the worst thing on the internet (ads) into the only component of Prime I still sorta kinda use sometimes. I’d rather keep the $140 a year or whatever.
Personally, idgaf what they do with Prime Video. After about a decade of having Prime, the only thing that has ever caught my attention was Rings of Power and that shat the bed so I’m good there.
I order enough off Amazon that faster delivery is a major draw for me. Ordering from other merchants is a drag because Amazon set the standard forever ago. But is it worth $140/year? Idk, I’ll have to do the value calculation on that one. But it’s getting closer to not being worth it. Especially if they continue to bundle the cost of video that I don’t use onto my shipping subscription.
I canceled my Prime account this past summer when I was informed they were going to increase my yearly fee. I’ve been a Prime member since 2003. It used to be FREE strict 2 day shipping on everything amazon sold. I think it was $85 a year then. 100% worth the fee. The shipping got worse and worse until the peak shit when they sold the contract for shipping to USPS from UPS for the majority of packages. Used to be if something wasn’t there by the guaranteed delivery date, you could call and complain and you’d get a month of prime added to your account. Then it got so frequent they started changing that to a $5 credit if you complained. Now they just change the “guaranteed” date if it’s going to be late, and no one gives a fuck if it still doesn’t get there. All this time the fee has ballooned to over $140. Now you’re telling me they’re going to start adding commercials to their streaming? It’s total horse shit from one of the largest companies in the world. They shit the bed with the gawd awful Rings of Power and are passing that cost on to us. Fuck Amazon, Hulu, Disney, Netflix. They are all garbage companies. Fcuking pirate everything you can.
If there are commercials, why should someone need an Amazon Prime membership at all? It becomes just like broadcast TV then, and they should just allow anyone to watch to maximize revenue. They have all this AWS infrastructure to deliver video, why not maximize the use of it?
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But wouldn’t they make more money by not requiring a subscription and having many more viewers? They will get paid for showing ads, not collecting Prime subscriptions.
If you don’t have prime you might not buy things from Amazon which would probably be a net loss compared to the potential ad revenue increase.
I’ve already canceled my Amazon prime subscription. I’m just waiting for it to expire in March
Are there any videos/guides to set up a Usenet for dummies? Asking for a friend of mine.
Look up “trash guides” for the *arr programs. I use Sabnzbd, Prowlarr, Sonarr, Radarr, Recyclarr, Jellyseerr, and Jellyfin. All in docker containers on their own vlan. Lemme know if you need any help.
Thanks for the software tips! I think this plus what I’ve read is a great start!
I forgot to add, when I transitioned into usenet, the most confusing part was that you need to find 2 separate services. From what I understand 1st is access to a usenet to connect to, and 2nd is a service that knows how to crawl and search the 1st to find what you’re looking for.
I could be wrong about that, but that’s how understand it, and have yet to have issues with my setup.
Aye matey! In fact, they’re are entire communities right here in the Lemmyverse all about sailing the digital seas!
Kind of interesting what can be done without the oversight of corporate overlords and monied interests.
So if I understand this right, I can use something like nzbget as the downloader and eweka to download from/as the indexer. Correct?
Is there anything else I would need to get/set up?
In a word: yarrrrr
Cancelled! Bye!
Me too! I’d been meaning to, but finally did it yesterday right after they sent the email letting me know hahaha
We have prime because we order enough through Amazon that the ‘free’ shipping we pay for is still a good deal. If I don’t watch any Amazon video anymore, that’s fine. And I don’t plan to if there are commercials.
Yeah, my monthly coffee subscription saves me enough to pay for prime in four months. I don’t really use the video service enough to care.
Thanks for reminding me to cancel my prime.
You’re welcome.
eh, I don’t really care. It’s a gimme with prime. TBH I rarely watch anything on it. The only thing I’m watching right now is the current season of Reacher.
We rarely watch anything on Prime except for a few original shows like Upload and Reacher. Prime Video is usually an afterthought.
I have Amazon Prime which includes Prime Video and I just watched the first four episodes of Reacher 2 on Stremio with Torrentio. Before this, I binged all of Better Call Saul also on the latter, before cancelling Netflix. I also cancelled Disney+ after they announced the second price hike in less than a year, ended up watching Loki 2 also on Stremio. Fuck this greedy assholes.
