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In the spirit of public service, consider thread bumped.
I received an email notice this morning that my trial of Prime would expire in one month (3/20).
― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Tuesday, 21 February 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
I had trial a long time ago and for some reason they decided to offer the trial to me again, I guess it's because I haven't bought something from them for almost a year
― pokám0n (dyao), Tuesday, 1 June 2010 15:58 (thirteen years ago) link
i bit the bullet and signed up the other day for the trial membership. aaaaaaaand will cancel before the month is up.
will i ask myself questions and them answer them in order to tell the dull story of why i'm canceling? yes i will.
am i happy with the free 2-day shipping? oh fart yeah!
did i look up the number of amazon purchases i made over the last year, define it as X, and then divide $80 by X to see how much I'll really pay for 2-day shipping per order over the course of an average year, for example, if someone made 40 orders in a year and then sign up for an $80 amazon prime membership they're pretty paying $2 per 2-day shipping per order? Why yes i did, and i was pleased with the figure.
was i pleasantly surprised that i could extend the membership benefits for free to others in my household, specifically my beyonce?i was, i had no idea.
was i bummed today when i got home and realized that the 2-day shipping is UPS, and UPS leaves the package at the door and requires a signature at the time of delivery, and they pretty much only deliver when i'm not home (before 5pm, M-F only), and to take this a bit further i'm not sure how in the world anyone could ever accept the package unless they didn't have a job, and now i have to drive 30 minutes away and then stand in the worst-fucking-line-in-the-tri-county area notorious UPS line for another 30 minutes to get my package, and this will happen everytime i order from amazon now, pretty much? YES, pretty bummed about it
is the run-on answer your own question format acceptable to others?no, probably not, sorry
― 23 24 (Z S), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:33 (thirteen years ago) link
lol.
considering I made 129 orders last year, and that I'd guess at least 70 of them I used Prime for,.....I probably paid for my Prime at least ten or more times over
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
also re: UPS I'm having that problem now too, cuz in our area they've stopped 'leaving' packages due to recent thefts, I have to have them all sent to work. you can also sign the little slip on the door, and when they try to deliver the next day they'll leave it.
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
btw regging multiple email accounts for Prime works if you have more than one credit card. I did it.
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
can't have them sent to work, unfortunately.
and the little slip on the door has option B checked ("The sender required a signature at the time of delivery"), as opposed to option A ("Your written authorization is required to leave packages"), which means I can't just sign it and get it the next day.
:-/
― 23 24 (Z S), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
really? that's bizarre, Amazon doesn't generally send signature guaranteed. did you buy a lazer beam or something
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
question: is there any way to contact amazon and/or UPS and let them know that it's cool to just leave it at the door in the future (option A)?
― 23 24 (Z S), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
do they sell anything else? xpost
― 23 24 (Z S), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
FedEx once refused to leave "Wire Season 3" at my door because they marked "dangerous materials" on teh slip
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:39 (thirteen years ago) link
it's worth emailing them to check...dunno that anything will come of it, but they could at least explain why that particular item was sent that way.
up until a week ago, all of my shit was left for me, which is good cuz I work M-F. now that they're pulling the 'have to be home' shit I have to use work which sucks cuz they misplace stuff sometimes
― i love tampon spaceship (San Te), Friday, 21 January 2011 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
there is now a streamin gvidoe app for Wii! Goodbye netflix!
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Monday, 11 February 2013 14:29 (eleven years ago) link
This is the best!
― polyphonic, Sunday, 28 July 2013 06:35 (ten years ago) link
Noticed a bunch of good older movies got added to Amazon Prime recently, including North by Northwest & Days of Heaven.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 28 July 2013 07:23 (ten years ago) link
Dark City, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Hud
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 28 July 2013 07:25 (ten years ago) link
Dark City with Charlton Heston?
― Orpheus in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 28 July 2013 13:51 (ten years ago) link
the only reason I kept Netflix after Prime added videos is that they don't seem to have EVERYTHING I want, so I feel like I need both :/.
still, tho, Prime is great cuz I order like 300+ things a year, so the savings are immense. except now they're using 'cheap' tactics like using shitty local couriers to deliver shit. who often fuck things up.
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 28 July 2013 14:21 (ten years ago) link
One thing that's nice about the streaming selection is that the films are in their correct letterbox in many (all?) cases, unlike Netflix. and they have a lot of the stuff that Netflix has. And the quality of the stream was way better.
If there's a movie they don't have streaming you can use their app to stream a rental version, although you can't make the purchase in-app... only access your amazon library. But it's nice to have the option.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 28 July 2013 16:05 (ten years ago) link
i used to have this
― markers, Sunday, 28 July 2013 16:10 (ten years ago) link
it's cool & if i had more money i'd have it now
I buy so much heavy stuff from Amazon - 50 lbs of cast iron kettlebells, 8'x6' bamboo fencing, flats of canned tomatoes and tuna and coconut milk, cases of coconut water, raised bed garden kit, wheelbarrow, etc - that yearly charge for Prime is well worth it even if we didn't use the streaming.
― Jaq, Sunday, 28 July 2013 16:13 (ten years ago) link
I still love Prime, and it's still more than worth the money, but as expected, they're starting to penny pinch and use cheaper means of shipping...as a result, their 'guaranteed two day delivery' is turning into three and on rare occasions, four because of using things like FedEx Smartpost. Which ok, w/e for the most part, but the last three new releases I ordered, that were supposed to be 'guaranteed to be received on release date' according to the email, have been a day late.
Yeah, first world problems, I know, but if you're going to advertise something, probably best not to keep not delivering it. complained, hopefully I get $2 towards a future mp3 purchase.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
i watch heaps of stuff on prime, and we milk their shipping every year come Christmas time, more than pays for itself.
love it
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 23:06 (ten years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/b?ref_=tsm_1_tw_s_amzn_mx3eqp&node=8037720011
What the fuck
― 乒乓, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:44 (ten years ago) link
Amazon Drone
:D
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 December 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98BIu9dpwHU
― 乒乓, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/FT03DGb.jpg
― 乒乓, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:46 (ten years ago) link
I'm shorting Amazon right now. Somebody give me their Amazon shares. I'll have them back to you by Tuesday
― 乒乓, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
will i be able to recoup my investment in a gun
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:47 (ten years ago) link
and can u buy guns on amazon
i want to order an rc helicopter just bcz it would make me lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 2 December 2013 01:49 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/VAzdZBT.png
― 乒乓, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:50 (ten years ago) link
Think the thread title will need to be changed soon
srsly think how amazing it would be to shoot one of these suckers out if the sky and take its bounty
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:52 (ten years ago) link
Amazon Prime (applying to be the leader of the Autobots)
― zanarkand bozo (abanana), Monday, 2 December 2013 01:53 (ten years ago) link
Best part is when you emerge from the field victoriously clutching your Amazon Prime Air package and you open it and it's just a wine bottle opener
― 乒乓, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
my favorite corkscrew
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 December 2013 01:58 (ten years ago) link
no corkscrew is sweeter than the one you killed yourself
http://kdvr.com/2013/09/03/drone-hunting-certificates-already-being-sold-in-deer-trail-angering-residents/
― lollercoaster of rove (s.clover), Monday, 2 December 2013 01:59 (ten years ago) link
lol bezos talking drones and doing custom development for the cia in the same segment http://gigaom.com/2013/12/01/amazon-drones-were-not-the-biggest-surprise-from-jeff-bezos-on-60-minutes
― lag∞n, Monday, 2 December 2013 02:02 (ten years ago) link
You give me some of your tech I'll give you some of mine
― 乒乓, Monday, 2 December 2013 02:04 (ten years ago) link
Bezos is a clown from the future laughing at us all
― I can't keep up, I can't keep up, I can't keep up (calstars), Monday, 2 December 2013 02:53 (ten years ago) link
I think all that stuff is great, Jeff, but like you said, it requires third party investment (sort of the way using Amazon Music the way I'd want would require an annual fee). The hands-free function is great, better than I expected, but to do anything beyond smart clock-radio stuff requires lots of outside help, whether IFTTT or some specific lightbulbs or whatever. I love Apple but have resisted its vertical integration mode for similar reasonsl, because it's so controlled it prevents me (or slows me) from doing what I want to do with ease. Speaking of IFTTT, if Echo doing what I want it do to means that I need to invest in several outside or supplementary products or services, then ... it's not doing what I want it to do. It's doing what Amazon wants it/me to do.
Again, this will all work itself out soon enough, I hope, but for now it is a truly maddening epidemic to see solutions on the horizon through a reinforced window that keeps you trapped inside.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
like refugees trapped in greece
― blazed carrot (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:44 (seven years ago) link
Exactly like that.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 15:49 (seven years ago) link
then my kids can just walk in and say "Alexa, play shitty music"
now what kind of language is this to be using
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Finally giving this a go, as there was a good deal in the Prime Day event that I wanted to get. Not sure whether I'll keep it beyond the one month trial, though it is tempting given my ordering history of the last few years.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
what did you get
i considered getting a dustbuster but did not
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 12 July 2016 18:22 (seven years ago) link
It was a photography purchase... a fast 128GB Lexar SD Card for just £26. One can never have enough memory cards when it comes to shooting weddings!
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
I just bought a VTIN Royaler bluetooth speaker, need a new one after my JBL Flip broke. $45, normally $65-70. Not bad. Most of the things I've seen that I would be remotely interested in were at around 20% discount -- not bad, but also not the level of discount that would make me jump to buy something I don't immediately need.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link
I swear it's like I don't know how to use the internet anymore. I go to Amazon, go to the Prime Day splash page, see a bunch of crap I couldn't care less about, see no way to filter sale products into categories that might interest me, so I quit.
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:33 (seven years ago) link
you can filter by category, although you still wind up having to wade through like 50 pages of stuff per category or more with no "view all." however there does seem to be a semi-functional prime-day-only search function.
Generally I find Amazon to be completely shit in terms of navigability and I hate shopping on it unless I know exactly what item/brand/model I want.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:48 (seven years ago) link
They have way too much crap for sale. Way too many products in every category, and everything is bumped by fake reviews. I prefer ordering from Costco where things are more curated, except that they sort of go to the other extreme and could use a bit more selection.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
It should be more like Black Friday sales imo, confine the sale to very popular items and make the discounts deep.
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
So many of the prime deals are items and/or brands I have never heard of. I would have no way of even evaluating whether they were good deals other than trusting Amazon that it was more expensive yesterday.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
I can see why an internet-based black Friday of that sort would be problematic though -- they probably couldn't do the volume on those items needed to satisfy people and the whole thing would be over in a server-crashing second.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
(xp) right, and I won't even waste time clicking on item where the price is expressed as a range from 19.95 - 49.95
― skateboard of education (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
i have stuff enough
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
To find out a price history of an item on Amazon I've been pointed to this website: http://camelcamelcamel.com
I've ignored signing up and just put the URL of the item in the top search bar and it seems to work well.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 12 July 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
It turns out that they actually offer same day shipping with Prime here in Glasgow. If you order before noon things arrive later that day and the range available seems quite extensive.
I haven't set it up yet, but it also seems I can share some of my Prime benefits with my girlfriend as part of a household. That's very neat too.
I can imagine I'm going to end up paying for the year in the end.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Thursday, 14 July 2016 09:04 (seven years ago) link
Did my first same-day delivery. It worked precisely as advertised and was very handy - ordered about 11:30am, arrived about 7pm. Hopefully it wasn't actually like this, but I did feel guilty imagining a delivery van driving the 50-ish miles from the warehouse to my flat that evening with my single item.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
I signed up for Prime last month after years of putting it off because I never had the spare cash to drop on the cost all in one go. But now you can pay for it monthly (and it comes with Amazon video, which I've used a bit already).
Basically, the $10.99/mo pays for itself really quickly.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 26 July 2016 14:13 (seven years ago) link
It also comes with the Amazon Music streaming service, and here's where I'd like some opinions. Is it good enough to forsake spending extra on Spotify and/or Apple Music?
― Lee626, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
nah
― mh, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 18:16 (seven years ago) link
actually it doesn't have a streaming service like spotify yet, you can just stream your own music
― mh, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 18:17 (seven years ago) link
I stand corrected, they have streaming now, but it sure hasn't done much for me
― mh, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
Selection is v poor vs Spotify - I sometimes use the playlists or radio function if I can't be bothered thinking.
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Thursday, 28 July 2016 17:49 (seven years ago) link
It's a nice extra but not worth subscribing for. I don't even know if Prime Video is 100% worth the price but it's come a long way over the past few years, possible they'll improve Music as well.
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
Prime membership is such a weird hodgepodge of stuff. It's really hard to value the shipping plus entertainment media combo.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
I like the Video offerings but I already have Netflix and order from Amazon maybe twice a year, so it's like juuuuust not quite worth it
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
Might get back on if they offer that huge discount again (and/or I get some more money coming in)
― Nhex, Thursday, 28 July 2016 18:19 (seven years ago) link
I'm on my annual free 30 days Prime trial again. God the stuff on there is pretty awful.
Have managed to finally watch Batman Dark Knight Rises thought, and Mad Max was pretty fun. Other than that? A whole lotta nothing.
― PressAnarchyToContinue (Ste), Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
That's nuts, there is so much good stuff.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Near random stuff in my watchlist:
City of GodCaptain FantasticMoonlightSalesmanPaterson20th Century WomenSweet HereafterMarried to the MobProm NightHistory of ViolenceThe HandmaidenGreen RoomThe Witch
And so on. I suppose some of these come and go from Prime, but I think most of these are current.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:24 (six years ago) link
Plus whatever original programming is there now. They seem to be ramping up further.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:28 (six years ago) link
Prime Video makes it hard to find the good stuff sometimes, even on my FireTV half the easy to find recommendations are cheap documentaries and straight to video garbage.
― El Tuomasbot (milo z), Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:44 (six years ago) link
http://instantwatcher.com/a
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Sunday, 23 July 2017 22:57 (six years ago) link
There's a fourth season of Bosch coming, but no date yet.
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 23 July 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
I got invited by Amazon to complete a survey regarding changes to the Prime set up. I guess they'll be changing the price and what's included before too long. They had me laboriously choosing which I'd go for out of various combinations of the shipping/movies/music/photo storage/e-books/deals/etc features of prime at differing price points, trying to gauge which were most important and how much I'd pay for them. I'm very happy at £79 per year, but will baulk if they raise the price or drop any features I do actually use.
From the way they set the questions up it seems like they want to raise the price quite significantly for Prime that features both video streaming and one-day/same-day delivery and have cheaper options that drop either one or both of those aspects.
― brain (krakow), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
Doesn't sound surprising; with the explosion of streaming video they presumably have to recoup more costs now.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
fuck amazon
― conrad, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
they're bad but hey we got The Handmaiden out of it
― Nhex, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 16:12 (six years ago) link
I never really wanted Amazon Video to begin with so I can sign up for the delivery only
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
do we have a thread for Amazon's horrific labor practices
http://fortune.com/2017/11/24/amazon-black-friday-2017-strike-italy-germany/
― Simon H., Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
Worst American tech company thread yeah
― .oO (silby), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:05 (six years ago) link
Also, they just opened in Australia and made the odd decision to charge higher prices than their competitors for pretty much everything
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link
pulling a real "target in canada" move there
― mh, Wednesday, 6 December 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
It's ok the "invisible hand" will self correct
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 01:13 (six years ago) link
They do that to us too but the maddening thing is never being sure if the item will ship here until you're halfway through buying it
Also no .ie site so kindle is through .com but all else through .co.uk
For a company essentially based four miles from my apartment. Dicks.
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 01:20 (six years ago) link
Sry deems if they actually sold things in Ireland they might have to pay taxes on it
― .oO (silby), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
Valid point of course
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Wednesday, 6 December 2017 01:32 (six years ago) link
Like it's not that we're not grateful for the job