> I decided it wasn't worth the cost for me so I went inside my settings to cancel. Their stipulations for cancelling the membership was "Come back two days before the account is set to auto-renew and cancel then."

I'm not defending Amazon's sneaky tactics to trick people into signing up for prime. They got me too.

But I didn't have any trouble cancelling it right away, and I went through it only a few months ago. Not saying you're wrong, though - they probably changed things since you had your experience.