Even at the new price it is only about .25 more a month than Netflix. I dropped Netflix and use Amazon for streaming. I can easily get my .25 back with a few freight free shipments. I think it would be very difficult to compare selection between the two and come to any conclusions as to who is a better choice. The good thing about Netflix is I can buy it for one month and watch the new season of House of Cards and then cancel.
I agree with Nofeer. I am most likely cancelling my Prime membership over this. I do not use the Prime streaming or eBook functions, which are likely the biggest reasons for this increase. If Amazon were to break this up into a Prime shipping for $79 and Prime Streaming for $20, then I would gladly subscribe to Prime Shipping and they could keep getting my $79 a year. As it is they are likely going to lose my $79 a year, rather than get an extra $20 from me.
Just cancelled my Prime account effective the last day of my current membership. Then I sent Amazon an email telling them that I was unhappy about the increase and the bundled benefits. Said if they broke it up like I mentioned earlier I would resubscribe, but I won't pay more because of streaming and kindle borrowing that I don't use.
Hopefully a lot more people do the same and Amazon considers splitting them.
Perhaps not yet, but why do you think they are willing to go for years with virtually no profit? Because they are charitable people at heart and they have no plans of gouging their customers once they have killed all their major competitors? Surely, unlike the DoJ, you are not that naive or gullible.
Heard the monopoly nonsense in business school, only it was tagged to Walmart.Still waiting for the universal price hikes to hit.
Amazon is a monopoly of what, exactly? Jeff B. is a volume guy and likes low prices. That's just the way he rolls. $99 is still a huge bargain for online shoppers like me. There will be no price hikes because this economy is still sluggish. Everyone can compare value online.
Here in Germany the price just went up from €29 to €49 (just under $70) and although the price isn't too bad, the problem is that most of the Lovefilm offerings are in German - which I do speak, but I prefer the original version. Why watch anything made in English in the dubbed version?
The €29 just for the postage perks was great - but I honestly don't understand the business model of bundling it with a film-rental service (which it is even if only for €20 a year), especially as they offer absolutely no alternative. If they price goes up any higher, then I will probably tell them where to stick it . . .
Good suggestion. Here are some headline possibilities: Missing jet may have been downed by faulty iPhone battery. Apple's Find iPhone fails to find MH370. 20 Freescale engineers on doomed flight. (This last one was an actually story)
Very good! But I would modify your second one to:
Apple's Find iPhone fails to find MH370; screen size too small.
1) Amazon Prime for students/educators has jumped $10 from $39 to $49.
2) If you love Amazon Prime but want to pay less there is a simple solution that can reduce your price by $60 (at least in the US). Sign up for a class at your local community college. I'm not even sure you need to actually pay for an actual class, but why not better yourself anyway? Once you have that email address you can use that to verify your account to not only get a reduction in Amazon Prime pricing but the next 6 months for free, and if you already have Amazon Prime they will prorate you the difference back as cash.
HEY AMAZON BREAK IT UP
I do nt want the other services don't use them why pay for them
Amazon the new cable company
How do we contact amazon??
And if the pricing would be $99 for Prime delivery, and then $50 for the streaming videos and $30 for the Kindle book rental would you still want it broken up?
... Amazon noted that Prime subscriptions have remained unchanged "even as fuel and transportation costs have increased."
I have noted that free shipping remains unchanged "even as fuel and transportation costs have increased." Oddly enough, I just started an Amazon Prime trial membership about a week ago. I'll let it lapse after the trial period is over though. I just don't order enough stuff to make $99/year worth it. (And I'm never in that much of a hurry to get things anyway. I can wait a week for whatever Blu-Ray discs I want.)
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This is your world.
This is your world on monopoly.
Thanks, DoJ.
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I agree with Nofeer. I am most likely cancelling my Prime membership over this. I do not use the Prime streaming or eBook functions, which are likely the biggest reasons for this increase. If Amazon were to break this up into a Prime shipping for $79 and Prime Streaming for $20, then I would gladly subscribe to Prime Shipping and they could keep getting my $79 a year. As it is they are likely going to lose my $79 a year, rather than get an extra $20 from me.
Just cancelled my Prime account effective the last day of my current membership. Then I sent Amazon an email telling them that I was unhappy about the increase and the bundled benefits. Said if they broke it up like I mentioned earlier I would resubscribe, but I won't pay more because of streaming and kindle borrowing that I don't use.
Hopefully a lot more people do the same and Amazon considers splitting them.
This is your world.
This is your world on monopoly.
Thanks, DoJ.
Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on anything.
Amazon is a monopoly. They sell below cost to try to put everybody out of business except them.
Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on anything.
Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on anything.
Perhaps not yet, but why do you think they are willing to go for years with virtually no profit? Because they are charitable people at heart and they have no plans of gouging their customers once they have killed all their major competitors? Surely, unlike the DoJ, you are not that naive or gullible.
Heard the monopoly nonsense in business school, only it was tagged to Walmart.Still waiting for the universal price hikes to hit.
Amazon is a monopoly of what, exactly? Jeff B. is a volume guy and likes low prices. That's just the way he rolls. $99 is still a huge bargain for online shoppers like me. There will be no price hikes because this economy is still sluggish. Everyone can compare value online.
There will be no price hikes because this economy is still sluggish.
They, uh… just hiked the price. It literally just happened. You’re posting in a thread about it, in fact.
Here in Germany the price just went up from €29 to €49 (just under $70) and although the price isn't too bad, the problem is that most of the Lovefilm offerings are in German - which I do speak, but I prefer the original version. Why watch anything made in English in the dubbed version?
The €29 just for the postage perks was great - but I honestly don't understand the business model of bundling it with a film-rental service (which it is even if only for €20 a year), especially as they offer absolutely no alternative. If they price goes up any higher, then I will probably tell them where to stick it . . .
They, uh… just hiked the price. It literally just happened. You’re posting in a thread about it, in fact.
Well you got me there. I wasn't aware that amazon was a 1-product company.
Well you got me there. I wasn't aware that amazon was a 1-product company.
No, those goalposts stay right where they are, thanks.
Very good! But I would modify your second one to:
Apple's Find iPhone fails to find MH370; screen size too small.
This is stupid
2) If you love Amazon Prime but want to pay less there is a simple solution that can reduce your price by $60 (at least in the US). Sign up for a class at your local community college. I'm not even sure you need to actually pay for an actual class, but why not better yourself anyway? Once you have that email address you can use that to verify your account to not only get a reduction in Amazon Prime pricing but the next 6 months for free, and if you already have Amazon Prime they will prorate you the difference back as cash.
And if the pricing would be $99 for Prime delivery, and then $50 for the streaming videos and $30 for the Kindle book rental would you still want it broken up?
Ugh. Someone here just lifting any story off of The Verge's home page now?
Why not start covering all of the top news stories, anything at all... What's happening with that Malaysian plane crash? ????
You have no interest in the story so pass it up. But instead, you decided to add to your 14,000+ posts in order to complain about it.
Year....Amazon Orders
How can you check?
PS: Just yesterday, on the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, I was wondering what my first internet purchase was. I have absolutely no idea.
... Amazon noted that Prime subscriptions have remained unchanged "even as fuel and transportation costs have increased."
I have noted that free shipping remains unchanged "even as fuel and transportation costs have increased." Oddly enough, I just started an Amazon Prime trial membership about a week ago. I'll let it lapse after the trial period is over though. I just don't order enough stuff to make $99/year worth it. (And I'm never in that much of a hurry to get things anyway. I can wait a week for whatever Blu-Ray discs I want.)