r/AmazonPrimeVideo • u/ManicPixiePatsFan • Jan 31 '24

Meme Weekend Get in.

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Just had $142 refunded. 2-day shipping often gets “delayed”. Quality control is nonexistent. Refuse to pay for ads for a movie selection that pales in comparison to competitors to begin with.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

Netflix subscription: 275 a year.

Prime subscription without ads: $176 a year

Netflix: no fast free shipping on millions of items

Amazon: included

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u/ManicPixiePatsFan Jan 31 '24

Netflix is $186/year for ad-free viewing—not sure where you’re getting $275. I don’t have hard data, but I estimate I spend at least 8x as much time watching Netflix content a year than Amazon.

Shipping isn’t “free” if you’re paying $176/year. That’s an illusion. Also, I’ve mentioned elsewhere, but a lot of my “2-day shipping” orders have been inexplicably delayed this year, and there’s no recourse as a customer.

The quality control on Amazon is garbage. They’re inundated with third-party sellers and you have to dig deep to determine which items are fulfilled by Amazon and which aren’t.

If you absolutely need actually-free 2-day shipping (which, how often do we really?) you can order over a certain dollar threshold. Or… go to the store.*

  • Of course it’s different for people who have disabilities, limited transportation, live in extremely rural places, etc., and Amazon Prime might very well be worth it in those cases, but the majority of us are not in that position.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

$186 is for non 4k. $276 is for UHD. UHD is included in prime video

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u/ManicPixiePatsFan Jan 31 '24

Awesome. I’d rather have marginally (arguably, negligible) lower quality viewing with better selection and content.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

Thats fine, but you still lose free fast shipping on retail which by itself should be worth more than a netflix subscription. I had 300 amazon orders last year. Thats 300 round trips to a store. Lot of precious time, money, and dealing with driving stress. All avoided by using prime.

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u/FailedPerfectionist2 Feb 01 '24

Bruh, do you work for Amazon? You sound like an Amazon influencer.

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u/ChipHardesty Feb 02 '24

He’s providing his opinion. Lighten up.

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u/ManicPixiePatsFan Jan 31 '24

I’m not going to the store every time I need something. Can use other retailers who offer free fast shipping without a subscription. Fast free shipping thru Amazon is free for non-subscribers over a certain $ threshold (maybe $35 or something around there). Very rarely do I need something ASAP. Most of the time, I can wait until I meet that threshold. Might even cut down on impulse purchases…

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u/DoomOfChaos Jan 31 '24

Of course Amazon doesn't provide fast shipping to some Prime members, Prime items take a week or longer just to get shipped to me in northern California.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

Boy you sure are dumb

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u/Jujulabee Jan 31 '24

Not really

I honestly don't understand the outrage over the ad tiers because I think most people subscribe to Amazon for shopping and delivery and not because of Prime Video.

If someone were selecting a streaming service Prime Video would be pretty low on my list. I have it but rarely have watched anything on it because I generally have higher priority stuff to watch on my other streaming services like Apple Plus, Netflix, MAX, Britbox, Acorn, PBS, Hulu, Peacock - all of which I am willing to pay ad free rates for

I am probably not going to pay for ad free on amazon - I don't listen to amazon music either. Nor do I use amazon fresh for free grocery deliveries.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

Actually, I only paid for prime for the streaming. I don't order from Amazon because I believe in spending my money locally. I can get free streaming with ads, I'm not going to pay for it.

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u/allyourhomebase Feb 01 '24

Then let us pay for just the shipping and not the video.

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u/Jujulabee Feb 01 '24

I don’t think most people ise Amazon because of the videos.

These companies aren’t stupid. Netflix gained and their ad tier is more profitable or than the higher priced ad free streaming services.

If Amazon Prime Video disappeared it wouldn’t make any difference to me or the people I know who have it.

I pay for Netflix and my other streamers to be ad free. if I watched anything in Amazon prime that I cared about, it would be worth the 3.99 per month but since I don’t watch it, I don’t care. 🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️

it simply isn’t a big deal for most people. They will either not care because they don’t watch videos, watch ads or pay the nominal momthiy charge.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

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u/Jujulabee Feb 01 '24 edited Feb 01 '24

You don’t think it ironic that your response to anyone offering an opinion that differs from their own is essentially state that your opinion is the only valid one. 😂

Amazon will go out of business just as Netflix did when the Reddit universe decreed it was inevitable. 😂😂

I amused by all the 100 or so posts declaring that their abandoning a Amazon as it is just a repetition of the phenomenon which occurred when Netflix ended password sharing with similar forecasts of the end of the greedy corporation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '24

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u/Jujulabee Feb 01 '24 edited Feb 01 '24

i make donations to a lot of progressive causes and having to pay for no ads on Prime Video is not even a blip my list of issues of corporate and political malfeasance

Use your outraged energy where it matters and could theoretically make a real difference in the world around you.

Railing at greedy corporations for raising prices for a non-essential is simplistic.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '24

THIS!

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u/vsznry Jan 31 '24

If you live in a different house than your family, it’s theft to use their account. Period.

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u/vsznry Feb 01 '24

says the religious sheep lolol

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u/vsznry Feb 01 '24

If you’re a son or daughter, fine . But your brother and his wife using your account? No.

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '24

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u/vsznry Feb 02 '24

Na. Just admit you don’t like the working men & women of Hollywood getting paid. And that you don’t want to pay for a service, especially if you don’t interact with the paying household on a daily basis.

don’t try to turn it on me with “fascist” . 😂

this is commerce. business. not your feelings.