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I thought I cancelled 2 months ago and I was billed this week. I went through the same steps and when I got to a page that said something like “confirm cancel” I hit it again.
The top of the page said “you have 364 days left to enjoy prime benefits”
This time I scrolled down and there was another box to click. A second confirmation. Such bs
I cancelled two years ago and they renewed it somehow.
Then this year I let it use a cancelled card as the default and my one working card was on a list of 20 or so cards. It kept warning me that my card would not renew my prime subscription. Nah, they just ran an if statement over my cards to renew it.
I didn’t really fight it because my family uses my prime video which has ads but I’m prepping them that it’s not gonna be there next year.
Reach out to their customer support and get a refund.
This is an example of dark patterns. It can also include multiple steps to ‘confirm’ a decision, where the confirm button is beneath the decline button, only for the final step to have the button locations (or colours, shapes, etc) reversed. It’s done on purpose to confuse people into giving up. Unfortunately, even if it works one time, it’s justifiable for the company to continue the practice.
If you haven’t used any of the benefits since its renewal, you can call to get a full refund. It did the same to me, and I was able to get the newest renewal fee back.
the third party delivery companies using Amazon painted trucks is a new form of racketeering for organized crime.
Is no one else using Prime for unlimited, uncompressed photo storage? I feel like it’s a big thing and I’m not even a photographer. It’s basically the same as Google had before they have decided to get rid of that feature on the free 15GB accounts.
I don’t want Amazon or Google using ai to harvest my family’s photo data and likeness so it’s not worth it. You pay and still are the product
And as soon as they’re done they’ll pull the rug out from under you just like Google did.
That’s basically the only reason I have it. I almost never use Amazon for ordering something
I only really use it for the prime gaming free games :').
How does that work? Do they require another launcher or other kind of drm?
You need their launcher to install them, but I believe there is no “DRM” as such.
Once you claim the game, it’s yours to keep even if you unsubscribe from Prime.
Sometimes the games are given via their DRM storefront, many of them are codes to Steam, Epic, and Humble
I’ve never had one, other than their free trials. Only then it was to make use of the next day delivery.
Amazon prime forcing ads was my final straw.
Before that, two day shipping became six day shipping became two month shipping became fuck you it’s lost forever shipping while the US patent office slowly burnt to the ground via the tens of thousands of gibberish brand names sellers were using to pedal their counterfeit child slave labor fell off a truck shitty fall apart in one day products.
Lack of Amazon has done wonders for preventing me from impulse purchases as well. Win/win.
Crazy. I was out of town last week, annoyed I couldn’t order stuff as I discovered I needed it, because it would have been delivered before I got home. I did finally order last night, but had to specifically avoid the overnight delivery in favor of fewer trips/boxes. …… if Amazon is giving you these ridiculous lead times, maybe you want to take a box,over look at who you’re ordering from
Yep, canceled back then too, for the very reasons.
I have my amazon account since 2005 and i’ve been fine without prime ever since.
Guess I just never really bought something thats so critical to have asap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
They keep giving me a month of free prime, which I use and cancel before the first charge.
Amazon seems confident they’ll convert me eventually.Or that you’ll forget to cancel!
You can cancel 30 seconds after using it and keep your 30 day trial. Most services work this way. Take the trial, immediately cancel, and move on.
After canceling Prime, I’ve been able to reevaluate the necessity of that ultra-fast, always-free shipping and have found it mostly unneeded. Amazon still ships free when your cart is above $35, albeit a few days slower. After leaving Prime, I’ve been happy to wait. The products still arrive relatively fast, and the selection is still excellent. I’m also less inclined to make impulse purchases. If the tech giants can have their years of cost-efficiency, I guess I can too.
I’ve been doing it since December
Did you ditch Amazon entirely or just wait until you spend over $35 for free shipping?
I haven’t bought anything from Amazon. Bet eventually I will but I’m just buying stuff from stores locally atm
The last straw for me was that Amazon drivers always seem to have some kind of problem finding my apartment. So even though instructions say “leave at my door,” it always ends up in Parcel Pending on the other side of my complex.
NOBODY ELSE has an issue finding my apartment: UPS, USPS, Uber Eats, even fucking Door Dash! But I might as well be living in the Bermuda Triangle to Amazon, so WTF was I paying for Prime for?
And honestly, like so many others, I’ve found it not even the least bit tempting to go back. Ebay has been a reliable alternative.
Maybe they’re using different map providers by default? Check Open street map, Apple, Google and Bing and see if some will route to the wrong side of the building, for example.
If you’re that curious, of course. I’m not telling you what to do :-)
It probably takes too long to go to each apartment, especially ones on the opposite end, and they probably are incentivized/punished more on time than accuracy.
Canned mine the day they announced ads in Prime Video.
They’d already ruined the music service earlier in the year.
The idea that people think it would be difficult to live without an Amazon Prime subscription absolutely blows my mind. Are y’all really that hooked on buying stupid shit and getting it as fast as possible?
I think it’s also different internationally? For eg. in India, I already use credit cards, but there’s a lifetime free credit card for Amazon that allows you to earn up to 5%. But without Prime, I earn only 3%. Ofc, this is only worthwhile because I already shop from Amazon without Prime and without the credit card, admittedly, but in my scenario it’s far more worthwhile to have Prime than to not, because it pays for itself within a month or two even without me consuming a single piece of media from Amazon (whether it’s Prime Video or Prime Music or Audible, etc).
Idk if this exists in every country where Prime exists, but I assume they’re just trying to gain more market share in India so it’s an option here. 🤷🏾♂️ But it certainly makes it worthwhile for me in my specific case.
I don’t understand some people who swear by it. If there’s really something I need by the next day, I probably need it the same day and will just get it myself at a store.
Where I live, getting anything at a store besides basic food isn’t a thing. You can’t find ANYTHING at Walmart. Hardware stores are the last semblance of being able to find stuff in a store in person like the olden days. If it wasn’t for the fact contractors buy entire houses worth of shit for “pro delivery” , even those would stop existing.
It saves you money because shipping is free.
That theory works if you’re only buying things you need. I know people that buy stuff they don’t really need and/or never use because it was cheap on Amazon.
yea, they obviously make a profit on it because it results in people buying more stuff. but in my situation it saves me money I’m pretty sure. just recently I bought some breadboards and tweezers for electronics projects and some rubber feet thingys for my keyboard. I would’ve bought them elsewhere if amazon didn’t exist so I saved on shipping this way. and unlike what others here have said, things always arrive on time or earlier. maybe that’s just a Germany thing tho
I bought a lot on Amazon, never paid shipping. I can just wait a week for it to show up. Only suckers pay for Prime.
If it’s something you need right now, go to a store and buy it.
idk about where you are but where I’m from the long shipping isn’t free either without prime.
Usually have to order above a certain threshold of price to get free shipping.
Only if you make over 3 purchases per month. That’s what it came out for me when I checked if I should get Prime. That’s when you get the cheaper option by paying for the whole year. I might only have 3 purchases a month once or twice a year, so definitely not worth it for me.
I dropped it months ago. Only had it for 2 shows and you can get free shipping if you look elsewhere. Plus got tired of being ripped off with fake clothes and junk. The time for Amazon has passed.
I stopped Amazon Prime because it when from being “your package will be at your house in two days” to “your package might leave our facility in two days and arrive to you some indeterminate time later.”
I also feel like anytime I get on Amazon now, I might as well be on Alibaba, but it’s 10x the price. It’s hard to find good things because there are so many cheap factory direct products with smashed-my-face-against-the-keyboard brand names. There’s a Jansport backpack for sale, but you have to sort through all the bags from JDOEBG, AHIXBX, and PRJAGG first.
This is so annoying cuz it happens to me as well, yea its 2 day shipping… . After it spends 4 or 5 days in processing
Amazon: the dropshipping website white people named.
Shipping is the other way around for me. It’s still two day shipping but doesn’t ship for 2-3 days. So they’re technically true to their prime benefit.
This is the reason I hemmed over my subscription for a few years, and after they announced they were adding ads to Prime Video, that was the final straw. I’ve ordered maybe 1 or 2 things without a subscription since, but I’m really happy with how much I’m able to get much faster and better elsewhere.
Duh?
