It is totally worth it for me. I save a ton on shipping and now with prime almost everything I get is either free same day delivery or next day delivery.
I'd also have to reconsider. I don't use their music streaming or audio book services and their TV streaming just sucks, content-wise. Netflix and Xfinity On Demand are far better.
I do order a lot of stuff from Amazon but I'd have to do the math to see if I'd even use $119 in shipping costs to justify it.
I don’t like Amazons politics but I am addicted to it’s service. I have three or four deliveries each week so it is worth it to me!!!
Called Amazon to cancel my Prime Membership yesterday as a result of the $20 increase. They did refund the unused portion of my membership. Our purchases on Amazon have significantly slowed and we are not at all impressed with Prime movie selection. eBay shipping is almost as good as Amazon where I live and many of the items delivered from Amazon have been damaged requiring return.
I made over 250 purchases from Amazon last year. So, for me, it’s a good deal, even at $120 per year. I even buy cat food from Amazon, because I can get it for 20-25% less than the brick and mortar pet stores.
We split our account with our children who live in different states. The only problem is that you cannot stream to different locations at the same time.
Not going to renew.
I used to buy something from Amazon a couple of times a month. Now I find better deals elsewhere.
Specialty sites have better information and options.
The fake product reviews are a joke now and their search is so polluted with sponsored results that it it is also useless.
I have prime video but never watch it preferring Netflix and Hulu.
I will never save $120.00 in shipping over the course of a year.
Gotta say, I’ve ‘saved’ well over $700 in shipping costs, this year, alone.
Is there anything I bought via Amazon Prime that I could not have purchased elsewhere? Other than Kindle books, nope. But, living 25 miles from even small town shopping, it’s very easy to find things via Amazon that I may not find more locally.
I’ve used the video resource a few times; watched some movies that I would maybe not have easily found at other outlets. But none were gotta-see movies.
I did get a good price deal on many things, from dietary supplements to bare tools for the shop, from books to toys for the grandkids.
That free shipping makes it even more enticing, of course.
I think, though, that $119 is getting too steep. I’m good at $99. I’ll have to think this one over a bit.
I definitely get my money’s worth, but I’ll be looking at Wal-Mart’s jet.com and doing a comparison over the next year. 10 bucks a month isn’t bad. I hate shopping, and the ability to go online, order, get it in two days is something I’ll pay for.
“...whose perks range from free two-day shipping...”
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Deceptive language.
1. The two-day shipping isn’t “free.” You’re paying $119 a year for it.
2. The use of the phrase “two day shipping” implies you’re going to get it in two days. Not true. “Two day shipping,” to Amazon, means two days AFTER they bother to ship your item to you. THAT may take a week or more.
I don’t care if Amazon paid me to become a member. Jeff Bezos is the enemy and I for one, will not make deals with the devil.
I just gave it up before they announced their price increase.
Seems like they usually price their best prime deal at just a hair better than what a more direct/third source offers. And I don’t buy so much that those hairs better add up sufficiently.
Prime is still a good deal. Being able to use the Rewards Visa card to get 5 percent back on Whole Foods purchases alone is going to cover the extra free within a few months.
These days I use Amazon mostly as a way to research products by reading descriptions and reviews. Then I go to Ebay or somewhere else and buy the stuff. Walmart is actually pretty good for pricing and free and fast shipping.
I recently bought a Roku. There are many channels that offer free movies and TV shows. Amazon's selections are quite limited.
Amazon's music service (1,000,000 songs} sucks in comparison to GooglePlay (30,000,000 songs), which I already subscribe to.
Bezos is evil incarnate.
I order stuff enough to cover the shipping.
I DO use the unlimited kindle to read trashy apocalypse series. They are fun.
Everyone has to do their own math. They will keep raising their prices until they switch to a monthly subscription service. Then they can inch up every year.
I enjoyed watching the Bosch series and the first season of Goliath.
I don’t like shopping so I use Amazon a lot, the wife likes to shop so she shops. My concern is Amazon benefits from people knowing more or less what they are getting because they’ve seen it in shops. So what happens when you can no longer see it because Amazon has broke all the retailers?
I know that’s a ways off, but for some products it may be closer than we’d like. I don’t know exactly where it’s headed but I think there’s cause for concern, and perhaps a little pause here and there.
I dunno, that’s $.32 a day every day of the year... Can I afford it? (Sheesh!)
Several years ago I purchased a holster via Amazon.
The other day I received a question via Amazon, from someone wanting information on the holster.
When I tried to answer the question, I received a message, "This question has been removed."