I've never had one nor would I even consider it.
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Ignoring the other benefits to prime outside of shipping, this is a major caveat:
"Amazon still ships free when your cart is above $35, albeit a few days slower. "
Most people are fine with slower, but if you're forced to make your order $35 to get free shipping, you're likely buying stuff you don't want/need just to get to that amount.
Just to save like $10 a month?
I don't think you save money by cancelling, unless you actually don't buy stuff from Amazon to begin with.
For me, having Prime is still worth it. Several grocery items are still cheaper from Amazon, and ordering for same/next day means I don't have to waste time/money/energy going to a store to get that same item.
But that doesn't mean I won't cancel the moment Prime stops being a good value.
We buy as little as possible from Amazon, though it sort of doesn’t matter because our choice is basically Amazon or Walmart (where we live there aren’t any other retailers).
Basically we buy as little from all of these shit companies as possible. We keep a running list of things we do need to buy from Amazon and when the tally is $35 or more, then we make the purchase. It doesn’t cost us anything extra because it’s stuff we can only get from Amazon and it’s all stuff we need.
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Yeah I cancelled my Prime that I had for about 7 years a few months ago and... Its fine. Better maybe cause I don't buy something stupid online I didn't need. I try to find stuff locally first and free shipping makes me able to just buy something if I need to but haven't found anything I NEED to buy from them.
I missed Prime Video but honestly with ads I can also just use Tubi and it's the same jank cheap movie experience without supporting Bezos.
I do think it's funny that I know some people who did the whole prime day this year and complained they bought garbage and that the prces were the same when they had to return the items and buy a new one but also the waste still hurts me
I only really use it for the prime gaming free games :').
How does that work? Do they require another launcher or other kind of drm?
They have their own launcher. Other times its gog.com, steam or epic.
I got things like both KOTOR games, deathloop, the force unleashed series and a few others.
Sometimes the games are given via their DRM storefront, many of them are codes to Steam, Epic, and Humble
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I’ve been doing it since December
Did you ditch Amazon entirely or just wait until you spend over $35 for free shipping?
I haven’t bought anything from Amazon. Bet eventually I will but I’m just buying stuff from stores locally atm
I really need to cancel my membership. Most things I really want can be bought on Ebay open-box for cheaper. Any daily essentials I just go to Sam's Club or Aldi.
the third party delivery companies using Amazon painted trucks is a new form of racketeering for organized crime.