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[Catsumi]

My Amazon orders are always over 35.00, therefore free shipping. No Prime membership needed

[BC Landlord]

My Amazon orders are always over 35.00, therefore free shipping. No Prime membership needed

I order some stuff for business, so same/next day delivery matters. Other than that, the membership has no value to me. As for Prime movies, many of them offered are becoming "for rent/buy", i.e. at extra charge.

[DANSPEED]

Just got an email from Amazon, saying they are introducing "limited advertisements" in their Prime videos. Unless you pay extra, of course. It makes me thinking of cancelling the subscription.

Dear Prime member,

We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting February 5, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than traditional TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here.

If amazon will remove the ads for $2.99/m and they have 302.9 million current prime video viewers worldwide, that means they could potentially generate approximately $905,671,000/m on ad-free TV! ... did I do that math right?

[BC Landlord]

Just got an email from Amazon, saying they are introducing "limited advertisements" in their Prime videos. Unless you pay extra, of course. It makes me thinking of cancelling the subscription.

If amazon will remove the ads for $2.99/m and they have 302.9 million current prime video viewers worldwide, that means they could potentially generate approximately $905,671,000/m on ad-free TV! ... did I do that math right?

That, or ads revenues.

[DANSPEED]

^^^ assuming all members got ad free. Makes me wonder how much amazon is making from the ads.

[Urban Cowboy]

I buy enough from Amazon to justify the extra price increase for no ads. I mean depending on what one buys a single purchase can justify paying for prime.

As far as same/next day shipping goes I honestly rarely ever see that. I've never gotten anything the same day, and few times the next day. I'd say my average is more like three days.

I in fact originally became a Prime member to save on shipping costs, and it wasn't until some time later that I realized I could watch stuff too, so I simply viewed it as a bonus.

[my5cents]

Just got an email from Amazon, saying they are introducing "limited advertisements" in their Prime videos. Unless you pay extra, of course. It makes me thinking of cancelling the subscription.

Dear Prime member,

We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting February 5, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements. This will allow us to continue investing in compelling content and keep increasing that investment over a long period of time. We aim to have meaningfully fewer ads than traditional TV and other streaming TV providers. No action is required from you, and there is no change to the current price of your Prime membership. We will also offer a new ad-free option for an additional $2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here.

I got the same msg, but I have in "interesting" question.

My msg stated exactly what your's said, BC. But I pay by the year, I'm paid up until Jun 30th. There was no mention that someone who has pre-paid would have until their pre-paid period is up.

I've paid for a service with no commercials up to June 30th.

Impossible to contact them, as usual. It's not legal to change the parameters of a contract half way through, without an agreement by both sides.

[Bsuds]

Impossible to contact them, as usual. It's not legal to change the parameters of a contract half way through, without an agreement by both sides.

I would bet that in the agreement it probably says prices can change at any time.

Very few people read it in total before clicking "I agree"

[DANSPEED]

Impossible to contact them, as usual. It's not legal to change the parameters of a contract half way through, without an agreement by both sides.

I would bet that in the agreement it probably says prices can change at any time.

Very few people read it in total before clicking "I agree"

Apple agreement, South Park ...

[AndanteX]

Got rid of TV provider. More entertainment on YT and the Android box anyways.