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Prime is adding ads to their streaming service (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think I might cancel. I'm not watching ads and I'm not going to pay the extra $3/mo to opt out. I don't know if I'd end up paying more than the subscription cost in shipping though....

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 10 months ago (37 children)

Are other online retailers so hopelessly sucky that you can't live without Amazon over in the states? It just blows my mind because Amazon honestly sucks compared to the more local stores where I'm at in the Nordics.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Most people want the question free returns, that's really the thing keeping amazon afloat compared to say eBay or aliexpress. Sure you can get the stuff directly from China in most cases, but you have to wait for a month for it to arrive and hope you don't need to return it.

As for local stores, they always cost more because of the cost of doing business, which is why Amazon is cheaper and faster to deliver.

All that said, as long as you can wait a few days, there is no need to pay for Prime, you can still get all the stuff shipped for free if you just wait until you have 45 bucks of stuff to buy.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (6 children)

You're speaking like there literally aren't any online retailers in the US, is that really accurate? And question free returns are literally the law here...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are some others, bhphoto being a good one, but many of the online retailers do not have free shipping and many also have return fees. That's where Amazon saw a way to steal customers away.