• @JCreazy@midwest.social
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    297 months ago

    When this announcement was made, I canceled prime. I don’t even use Prime video. It’s the principle.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      157 months ago

      I did use it, and the music service. They destroyed both in less than a year, so I cancelled it the same day they announced ads in video. They already had an ad tier, called FreeVee and it was insufferable.

      As a bonus, I now don’t buy anything off Amazon, since I no longer get the delivery benefits. Fuck that company.

      • @chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        77 months ago

        At least 20% of my orders end up being fucked up anyway. It’s either counterfeit products an entirely wrong product with the UPC of what I ordered taped onto the box.

        I ordered a Spyder Color calibrator last year (about 200 bucks), and got an iPhone 4 screen protector with the barcide of a Spyder printed on the box.

        I ordered a laptop and it arrived gutted.

        Amazon died for me when they changed from a retailer to a drop-shipper.

        • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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          27 months ago

          Similar experiences. I dropped Amazon at renewal in January after the ad announcement. The items I ordered went from two days to four days to several weeks to never existing and the products were more and more “fell off a truck” crappy knockoffs - the same reason I stopped using eBay in the 2000s.

          Bonus, like you, I find myself making next to no impulse purchases anymore since I can’t just fire up Amazon on a whim.

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      17 months ago

      This original announcement was the final straw to push me back into piracy and I couldn’t be happier a few months later.