Stuff like this is why I've cut amazon out of my life entirely. No more new devices, no more new purchases, cancelled prime, all of it gone.
1. Visit the manufacturer's social media account, if they are promoting an influencer, then visit the influencer's social media account.
2. That influencer usually has a discount code as part of a profit sharing deal with the brand. For many it's right in their bio.
3. Also searching youtube/instagram for "reviews" often finds advertorial style content that includes a discount code
This works particularly well if you're buying things like health supplements, but I've seen it for everything from tech to holidays.
If you bought something under the pretense that you could disable cloud stuff and then it silently starts uploading to the cloud, that's a violation of your agreement.
If they start dropping all requests until you assent to their shrinkwrap agreement, that still feels like a violation of the promises they made when you bought it, but unfortunately has precedent. See also: all the video games that no longer work because the publishers stopped supporting the servers they relied on.
They should be forced to offer a refund.
I reduced Amazon by 90% when I realized how much money I was wasting over 70-120 packages a year.
But "waiting a week or two" seems directly at odds with delivered in less than 2 days. End users don't really care about shipping speed per service (unless it's a perishable or temperature-sensitive item). They care about how long it will take to arrive from the time the order is placed.
There are options that offer fast shipping at slightly reduced prices, and options that offer slow shipping at significantly reduced prices.
Walmart.com, eBay, temu, and aliexpress are the most common sources I use, but I also do a lot of business with smaller retailers and brand websites.