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Famously cash-strapped company, Amazon, now tell me that if I want to avoid adverts (which is largely why I have a subscription in the first place), I now have to stump up an additional charge.
Reckon I'll just cancel - not because of the cost; just don't want to reward that level of greed and cynicism.
Just like everything else you just need to weigh up the costs and benefits. I'll likely carry on with Prime just for the free/fast delivery.
Just like everything else you just need to weigh up the costs and benefits.
Exactly that. If they'd have said "We're putting our charges up by £2.99 to continue to get the benefits of Prime including advert free streaming." would you have taken it?
The reverse perspective is that they've given you a choice to avoid a cost uplift by accepting adverts.
They've been slowly making the service worse for a while. I was a customer of LoveFilm when Amazon bought the company so I've given them a fair chance. 🤨
To be honest I've been thinking of shit-canning my Prime membership for a while anyway as the free delivery seems to enable my bad habit of purchasing unneeded shite.
I'll cancel once this season of Reacher has finished!
I'll carry on and see how intrusive the ads are then decide if I want to opt out.
Most of the prime gui seems to be trying to point me to pay for stuff anyway rather than the free content. Which is why I rarely use it, it is the worst of the bunch as a streaming service. Although I have prime for the delivery so prime video is just a barely used bonus.
I cancelled mine a while ago.
You can still get free delivery if you chose Amazon locker near you instead of you home address.
Works for me anyway.
I very very rarely watch PRime... as above, Reacher is one, Good Omens was another but as the boy is getting older that's now moved on. So i don't know what Mrs Weeksy will do, but i expect she'll can it. Netflix tops Prime for me... i'd much rather have Netflix. (and Disocvery+ of course for racing.)
crazy-legs
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I’ll cancel once this season of Reacher has finished!
But there's going to be season 3!
We got it for the benefits other than video, and tbh I can live with some ads anyway, just like I live with ads for 'linear TV' that I pay a licence for.
£95 now for free quick shipping and hit and miss selection on Prime video. Without ads it was just about worth it. With ads, no, and not worth paying extra.
So I may just dump Prime entirely and pay up for quick shipping of I need it.
Depends where the ads are. They claim unobtrusive. If just at start and end of a show, I can cope. Hate it in the middle and worse if it's like YouTube and every minute.
Hate ads in films and Prime is mainly good/okay for films.
Missus loves Prime just for the free delivery, I like a chunk of the streaming content so will stick with it and pay towards ad free if it bugs me too much.
I don’t like the updated prime video iOS app that mixes up the free to view vs paid video as I’ve never paid for a video on prime, and no adverts is why I like streaming services so I’ll probably pay the extra, not happy bout it though.
The worst bit is when you get Prime in order to watch something only to discover it is only available through Prime Prime. Whereby you have to pay for a second subscription to another streaming service just to watch one series. **** you Bezos and your penis rocket.
I'd be less ornery if they'd switched people over at the end of their subs, instead this is "Hey you know that service you've already bought? You have to pay us again to keep getting it". Like, I just bought some shoes from Amazon, I'll be a little miffed if in 4 months they demand £3 off me or they'll start leaking.
On the other hand I just got an ac.uk address so rather than cancelling I'm going to be abusing that and switching over to Amazon Student, so the difference is I won't feel at all bad about it, turnabout's fair play.
No more Amazon Prime day deliveries here. Just one extra delivery a year would probably cost them more than the £2.99 they want.
Poor Jeff will be on the streets by summer.
I cancelled, but then had them re-enroll me via the Swedish site when I bought something. A friend had the same thing happen when he bought something from the US site. Sneaky bastards. He got his money back, but oddly they say they will only give him Amazon vouchers. He's annoyed.
I set my account to use a payment option that does not involve a card, they are currently getting very confused about why they cannot take a payment...
It'll be the same as the freevee service they've been running for a year. In a 45 minute programme there is usually about 20-30s advert at the start and one or occasionally two 60-90s adverts in the middle.
Not the end of the earth really given the content they make.
As part of tightening the purse strings we were going to cancel prime anyway. So prime and Amazon music now cancelled.
Prime was always about the delivery aspect for me - the TV has always been shite compared to Netflix.
Anything else is a bonus - I use the photo storage alongside iCloud as backup to my backup.
Just remembered my business account gets (now free) prime because I linked it with my personal account. I'd lose that cancelling, and it's sometimes useful for a next or same day delivery. But then again just pay for that delivery (vat free on business expense after all).
I’d imaging there’s also going to some of the platforms tying deals together.
There are too many now - diluting the content for all of them.
Sky did the same thing, and some of the streaming services deal with it terribly - you can’t fast forward through adds, if you want to fast forward you can’t go past an add break without watching it* and some program force you to rewatch from the beginning. <br /><br />
Sky F1 qualifying / long programs is a real pain because you need to fast forward through about 2 hrs of talking therefore watch many repetitive add breaks until the qualy actually starts. <br /><br /><br />
Prime was always about the delivery aspect for me
It was/is for me too, but they've started to dialute that side of it as well. No more free same day deliveries as of end of last year. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the end of it either, a charge for next day delivery for example might be next.
Feels like they're slowly chipping away at the overall package.
Free same day was never an option in our back-water!
I was just thinking that I might cancel anyway, just to try a bit of "nudge psychology" to not waste so much money shopping on amazon, most of the stuff I buy on there are want items rather than needed, and it has become a bit addictive.
You can still get free delivery if you chose Amazon locker near you instead of you home address.
Didn't know this, cheers. Never watch prime so will look at this and cancel
I wonder what's worth more to them - does a months worth of plonking me in front of Ads make them or less than £2.99. I'm imagining a lot less. Hose that watch the most telly will be most disadvantaged by the ads and are most likely to pay...therefor missing the most ads. Lite users like myself will probably only miss (I hope) 15 or 20 ad breaks a month.
Prime is our only paid for telly service now that GCN+ has gone as we got rid of Now and Netflix a while back. I guess I pay for BBC/CH4 too through the licence fee.
Prime was always about the delivery aspect for me
+1
Very rarely find anything on Prime Video that interests us, or if we do, you have to pay extra to see it.
We already occasionally see a couple of short ads at the start of a film?
Have they started early?
At least they're skipable.
You won't have the ability to skip once this is in place. It's also not clear whether there will be ads during the program/film.
You can still get free delivery if you chose Amazon locker near you instead of you home address.
Didn’t know this, cheers. Never watch prime so will look at this and cancel
Thanks for this, got an Amazon locker 2 minutes walk away so will definitely cancel Prime and switch to this method.
You won’t have the ability to skip once this is in place. It’s also not clear whether there will be ads during the program/film.
It’ll probably be like Discovery+ - the ads on there can be 90secs or 30secs and not too intrusive.
If they were skipable no one would pay the extra.
the TV has always been shite compared to Netflix.
I think Netflix is now by far the worst of the bunch. Endless ten episode documentaries that should have been three episodes. Really crap series continually renewed and half decent ones cancelled with no notice. Prime and Disney between them have a much wider selection of films and series.
At least I know with Netflix that it’s all included in the price. Biggest bug-bear with Prime is finding something then seeing it’s only available to rent/buy.
I also think they are still decent value for money - far better value than going to your corner shop in the 80s and renting a VHS and having to have it back then next morning - rewound too - or you’d be fined!! The film you really wanted was always out as well, so you’d put your name down and with luck you’d get it in two weeks time! 🤣🤣
I won’t tolerate anything that funds Amazon.
As a few have mentioned, only paid for prime for the delivery aspect. But wanting to spraff less cash on needless crap to clutter the house combined with;
You can still get free delivery if you chose Amazon locker near you instead of you home address.
works nicely for me. An extra £8.99 a month in my pocket rather than Jeff’s can only be a good thing.
They’ve been slowly making the service worse for a while. I was a customer of LoveFilm when Amazon bought the company so I’ve given them a fair chance. 🤨
Same here, an ex-LoveFilm customer. Don't watch much on Prime Video and if I do it's usually a movie that I have to pay for so the whole Ads thing won't really affect me, won't stop it annoying me if I do watch something though (which reminds me, still got a season of Picard to watch).
What has peeved me off though is the way they're running the delivery side down to make it gradually worse after making it the sole reason for the subscription. 18 months ago they made my area (central Cardiff) one where you could order by midday on a lot of items and get them delivered that evening, really handy for avoiding nipping into the supermarket on the way home for something but leaving with something plus sweets, a drink etc. It recently changed to only for orders over £20, then it was pushing Prime Delivery Day 'to save on packaging' only it wouldn't and just meant that your delivery arrived on a Friday rather than next day but still in loads of individual boxes. The local lockers are also useless as they're either got no slots available or what I've ordered can't be delivered to them for some random reason (usually they're the wrong size).
Once my current few orders have arrived I'm going to cancel it, when I got a great service out of it I could ignore Bezos' cockrocket etc but now I can get stuff elsewhere for a similar price and delivered almost as quickly but without a subscription.