Comment by eganist | Hacker News Reader

Comment by eganist | Hacker News Reader

Nope.

• Prime Video is losing selection to "channels" that require extra payment on its own platform.

• Prime shipping is no longer certain to be two days.

• Those which are assured to arrive within two days don't always do so, but I never get a credit for that delay against my prime membership for a failure to meet their SLA even though I'm supposedly covered with some sort of guarantee.

• Prime shipping is no longer certain to source from Amazon warehouses.

• "Add-on items" — items that don't ship alone because they're too small/cheap.

• "Prime Pantry" — select non-perishable everyday items which inexplicably don't qualify for prime shipping even though variants of the same item may be sold under regular Prime rules.

• And worst of all: Amazon commingles Amazon-sourced with FBA merchandise. I've had numerous issues with counterfeits from "sold by Amazon" listings in the last two years because of this.

Disabled auto renewal. This broke the camel's back.

This was my experience too, I've had multiple instances of fake items or really old stock (circa 2014) showing up, and in the latter case I'd even asked beforehand to ensure I didn't end up with an older revision of the product. Ended up being a few grand worth of hardware to return, and a week and change delay to that project. Not risking buying from Amazon again!

You are forgetting one of the biggest benefits: The Amazon Prime VISA card with 5% cash back on all Amazon and Whole Foods purchases.

If you are not using this card, you are leaving money on the table. This benefit is easily worth an increase of 20 bucks a year. You will still come out ahead.

Not everyone spends >$2200 per year on Amazon purchases. I do not come anywhere near that.

The great thing about Amazon is they have tons of whales. If you buy everything through Amazon it’s easy to end up with yearly spends north of $10k

I can't quite figure out what I'm paying for anymore either. I would assume it's mostly for 2 days shipping but Amazon 2 days shipping so frequently 5 days shipping these days and it's not like any other merchants don't deliver it 3-ish days anyway.

Ditto on most of the above. I think I've watched a total of two movies on Amazon Prime Video in the last year. I use Netflix and Hulu and YouTube most of the time. Plus it's not properly released on Android on Google Play, so I don't use it on my phone or tablet at all. I only use Prime for shipping and it's just not worth it anymore.

> • "Add-on items" — items that don't ship alone because they're too small/cheap.

This is the only thing Amazon has done annoying enough to get me to buy elsewhere (other than, occasionally, price comparisons).

Particularly when they started reclassifying formerly-purchasable items, that I had in my order history, as Add-Ons.

I would have grudgingly accepted that if they'd just said "sorry, they're too expensive to ahip individually" but their PR kept spinning a tale about hugely expanded range.

Instead I started buying small items on eBay, paying the small amount of postage required, which led to buying bigger things and eventually barely looking at Amazon any more.

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