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…

  • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
    0·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      I hate Amazon but there are several reasons I use them. Wide selection, free shipping, easy returns, and typically low prices. Every time I have tried avoiding Amazon for everything, I’ve run into annoying issues before long.

      Also, sadly there are a lot of less common products that aren’t super available elsewhere. And even when they are, I feel like it’s a risk buying from some random website I’ve not dealt with before.

      I wish others could/would compete with these advantages but most don’t. And no I don’t buy everything from Amazon but it is a safe fallback for the items I can’t get at better retailers.

      • Night Monkey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        I’ve found Walmart+ and Sam’s+ to be better for my needs lately. I only have prime when I can get it for free for a month. I only care about free shipping. I can give a crap about anything else that comes with prime

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    9 months ago

    This is such a weird way of announcing/implementing a $3/month increase for Prime video by Amazon, and a lot more destructive PR-wise too.

  • doublejay1999@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    9 months ago

    Bait and switch.

    I’m ditching it. The convenience has gone and content has gone. I built a wish list which is now mostly unavailable.

    I need to up my game in terms of automating my torrenting and making it family - accessible.

    • 7u5k3n@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      Man I just moved to the arr’s I’m a Usenet guy… but torrents are the same deal… I added overseerr on top of that and all I do now is “request” it on overseerr and blamonit appears on my Plex server.

      For example if you wanted to download all of the seasons of say… SpongeBob. With overseerr it’s literally 1. search for the show 2. click request and wait.

      Super easy, barely an inconvenience Check out trash guides and overseerr.dev

      I run all of mine in docker with docker compose.

      Also I gave my mil and fil link to overseerr which Plex authenticates… They can request what ever and it appears.