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I almost bought a calendar on Prime today only to see that it "usually ships in 1-2 months(!)"

Increasingly it feels like as a Prime subscriber I pay for shipping twice: once with my prime subscription, and a second time with the shipping cost built in to the price compared to other retailers. I ended up getting an equivalent item from Target, which ended up being cheaper even without "free" shipping.

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That's super annoying. Amazon needs to be clear when an item is going to take a damn month to arrive. A giant huge warning at the top of the page telling me that I should be okay with waiting 1990's amount of time to get the package. And I should be able to filter it out of the search results, too.

I bought hangers, HANGERS, from Amazon, shipped and made by AmazonBasics, and they're "Arriving Aug 15 - Sep 21". Uhh? Well now I'm gonna have to go to the store anyway because I need hangers NOW not 5 damn years from now. Also how is it possible to have a whole MONTH for the expected delivery date?

Working at a distributor, it's actually really common for vendors to have ETAs that are months wide and pushed back multiple times.... Supply chains are hard.

I have seen the same thing, and I won't be renewing Prime when my current subscription expires. I mainly got it for the free 2-day shipping -- I very rarely use the Video or other services.

This is true even on Amazon. Very often the Prime price is exactly the same as their third-party price + shipping. This will be my last year of Prime.

I see it on Amazon, but it is interesting to look it at a macro level. If you are a third party selling on amazon without offering prime shipping, you have to cut your price to equal or lower to the amazon price or else no one would ever buy from you. So it is more that prime is forcing third party prices down to compete than Amazon double charging prime users.

> This will be my last year of Prime.

The refunded me the pro-rated balance of my subscription when I cancelled a year or two ago.

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