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On the BBC it says that Amazon Prime will start showing adverts - for a charge, on top of the £95 Prime, you can choose a no advert selection. Profits must be slipping.
Prime are also charging for next day delivery on items under £20 or something soon too.
I'm pleased as the more unappealing they make prime, the less people will have it and it introduces a nice barrier when people look to buy from them. That's my hope/logic at least.
I used to be on hotukdeals alot, but it's basically hotamazondeals
Enshitification in action. It's how all these things eventually die.
https://pluralistic.net/tag/enshittification/
Prime are also charging for next day delivery on items under £20 or something soon too.
I think that's only for same day or next day before 12. next day remains free
Free content on Amazon Prime is already a bit shit, most people only have it for the free delivery anyway.
Yeh we got it for the free delivery when we lived in shetland and we're very limited with access to things physically. We're not so remote now, but it's still very handy.
There can be some good stuff to watch on it but I'd not pay extra for it or to watch without ads. I do rent films through it from to time.
Free content on Amazon Prime is already a bit shit, most people only have it for the free delivery anyway.
Exactly this...from time to.time I'll see what's on Prime and it's mostly shit.
I tried to re-watch Parks and Rec the other day and noticed that it already has adverts throughout, so this has started with some content.
Currently watching Good Omens and The Expanse.
With practices like this I can see a lot of people putting their old hats back on.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_4&pp=ygUNY29yeSBkb2N0b3Jvdw%3D%3D
I must be a cheapskate because whenever I search for something on Prime, most of the items are obviously repackaged aliexpress stuff at higher prices
Now does a similar thing where they are adverts if going for basic option or can pay extra to have no adverts
The final reason why not to renew for me personally. Hardly ever watch it or order from them nowadays unless it's for work then I have a separate business account.
I got pissed off with spending ages for something to watch and more often than not when I did find something it was rent or buy now.
Cancelled last month, realised only use for shopping twice and prime video is really rubbish.
Tbh if they start charging for delivery it would hopefully be the prod my mum needs to stop ordering shit from them. I occasionally do but only as a very last resort.
And to think, for only £60 a year you can have Netflix with no ads a similar quality of content and free delivery on millions of items from the Netflix webshop.
Oh, that's £130.
£60 has ads and Netflix don't deliver that birthday present I forgot until 9pm last night either do they?
The only thing I remember about adverts on telly is I drank more tea and ate more biscuits, I'm not sure I'm likely to hold it against amazon if I revert to a dangerous fox's Crunch cream habit.
I watch Prime quite a lot, some good series on there and loads of films. The added bonus of next day delivery too, just don’t order stuff you don’t need. It’s a small increase, so if the adverts are too intrusive then I’ll probably pay.
Stopped watching Prime TV regularly a while ago as it's mostly crap or has a rental fee. Just checked and all I've watched in the last year is Clarkson's Farm and Picard. If it has adverts then I will watch even less but then it's never been an actual benefit for me, apart from a few YouTube channels I hardly watch anything!
I must be a cheapskate because whenever I search for something on Prime, most of the items are obviously repackaged aliexpress stuff at higher prices.
There is an awful lot of that, plus the same resellers will be on Ebay cheaper too. Absolutely rife within the RC world to the point where the large shops like ModelSport are now selling the AliExpress stuff themselves now! Where Prime wins for me (and it's the only Win) is that you know the package will be in the hallway of my flat block when I get home whereas anything from another seller is purely at the mercy of the courier who will either leave it with a random neighbour and not tell anyone or not deliver it as they couldn't take their picture of my door open. This then opens up the Pandora's Box of having to organise a redelivery or getting it to a drop-off point that always seems to be at somewhere that's a pain to get to. It's incredibly rare I have to get something immediately so if I have to wait a day or two then I'll cope, if I order two items a month then that easily saves me the postage cost and my fuel to go fetch it from a drop-off point. Thankfully I don't fall into ordering crap all the time like some of my neighbours, one has multiple boxes most days!
I do rent films through it from to time.
Which always makes me wonder what I'm actually paying for. I already pay, and then they want me to pay again.
It somehow seems to know that you're going to search for something then to make it extra. Even pretty old films. 😐
I must be a cheapskate because whenever I search for something on Prime, most of the items are obviously repackaged aliexpress stuff at higher prices
This bugs me too - I don't use Amazon but mrsDoris is a fan, and every time she searches for stuff it just looks like AliExpress. Thousands of identical widgets from brands called things like PENGDA and KINCMAX and JJUUSOU, with product descriptions that don't make sense and sometimes even the exact same product photos.
The other month she bought a plug adapter for holiday which a) didn't work and b) fell apart when she tried to unplug it, leaving a bare metal pin sticking out of the socket. It can't possibly have passed any UK or EU safety standards. I wouldn't trust Amazon for anything these days.
Which always makes me wonder what I’m actually paying for
The delivery obviously.
I assume no one is paying for prime video and getting the delivery as an added benefit?
This bugs me too – I don’t use Amazon but mrsDoris is a fan, and every time she searches for stuff it just looks like AliExpress
A lot it is, but that said a lot of *everything* is. The only difference between buying it from amazon or ebay or AliExpress is the shipping usually, sometimes it's cheaper from one than the other but that's widely inconsistent these days, Ali isn't often the significantly cheaper option for anything but tat.
Outside of those three the only real difference between a lot of (not obviously crap) the stuff bought there or on your local highstreet is the packaging.
(It's also a bit unfair as most of the stuff you mean isn't sold by amazon just on amazon, though that's splitting hairs a bit I realise.)
@squirrelking great talk. As a tech worker a few painful comments in there...
I do rent films through it from to time.
Which always makes me wonder what I’m actually paying for. I already pay, and then they want me to pay again.
It somehow seems to know that you’re going to search for something then to make it extra. Even pretty old films
But the films I will pay to rent are usually ones that you'd have to pay to rent or watch at the cinema anyway. We have paid a fairly high price to rent some recent cinema films because it's still loads cheaper and more convenient than a family trip to the cinema and we can pause it, use the loo,rewind and eat our own cheaper snacks.
But yeh something's I have wanted to watch like a series and I'm thinking why should I pay extra to watch this. As you say some really quite old films too.
My only gripe with amazon prime is...subtitles
Hardly anything has it..I would guesstimate about 40%.....compared to netflix and Disney+ which have it on 100% content
So out of the big 3 I watch prime the least...but I did watch the Continental (pre John wick )...it was most excellent...but I certainly won't be paying to watch adverts.
Free content on Amazon Prime is already a bit shit, most people only have it for the free delivery anyway.
By contrast, I can find sod all on Netflix these days compared to Prime - which has had some top-notch series and generally better films. Netflix seems to be mainly 6 part docos that could have made a really good 2-parter.
If you buy from AliExpress it's RM that delivers. I'm happy with that.
Some stuff is worth getting, RC parts for one.
Prime Video is pretty rubbish but then so are all the other streaming services, none are worth the monthly subscription cost for the content and yet all are seemingly losing money. There's needs to be a major consolidation now all the media companies realise it's not a sustainable cash-cow to dump your back catalogue in the cloud and expect people to keep paying once they've watched all they want of it and then drip feed two or good series and films a year. That said I currently pay for Sky Q, Apple TV, Prime, Netflix & Disney+ so I'm part of the problem :p
I think I'll try Prime with Ads for a bit to see how annoying it is for the very little content I watch, if it's too annoying though I'll be cancelling rather than upgrading. As others had said Prime shopping just isn't what it used to be, most stuff is available for similar or cheaper (inc. added delivery) elsewhere so it's only really the hassle factor of creating a new account on a different web-site (assuming you can't checkout anonymously) and/or waiting a bit longer (in most cases) for delivery. I don't on-line shop enough these days for that to be much of a problem though.