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I've been considering canceling since most things I order come with "free shipping for orders over $25." This makes canceling a no-brainer, unless I'm missing something. Even if my price is grandfathered (not sure if it is, after renewal time) it's still $79 more than free.

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Pretty sure it's free after $35. Also, I'm paying the 79 now and was told it goes up at renewal time.

Super Saver Shipping has been $25 in the US for as long as I can remember.

If you're Canadian, you may simply be remembering incorrectly as Amazon.ca used to be $39, but also changed to $25 a few year ago.

It got changed to $35.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=5...

Odd. I could have sworn I checked before I commented. Maybe I was the one mistakenly on Amazon.ca.

I apologize for the error.

Isn't it the difference between 2-day shipping (and sometimes faster) vs. slow shipping (typically 3-5 days for me)?

And $3.99/item 1-day shipping, which I find comes in handy quite often.

I just tried to get something delivered 1-day yesterday and it was $7.99. Bulky item, though, maybe it's higher for that.

The "free shipping if $total > $35" tended to be fast enough for me, and often things arrived sooner than I would have expected given what I take to be Amazon's scheme of "add to the truck if and when there's free space". That is, closer to 3 rather than 5 days.

But since getting Prime I've had things show up the next day. It's sort of freaky. I trialed Prime for the VOD aspect and I bought some product or another, forgetting about the delivery thing. And BAM it was at my house. I got that "I could get used to this" feeling.

In most cases I appreciate having whatever it was I ordered ready for use sooner, but I'd have to give some thought to whether it really makes all that much difference to me, especially since I'm not using the VOD thing as I expected.

You also get other perks such as their instant video catalog and access to their kindle lending library (although if you don't take enough advantage of them, it isn't worth the cost.)

Neither of which are available on Android - very frustrating.

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