I was confused to which games where even on Prime...so I just watched all of the games free on the NFL app and the Yahoo Sports app.
Besides, how else is 'Daddy' gonna pay for his space trips?
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Amazon Set to Increase Prime Membership Fee By 17% for US Customers
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Besides, how else is 'Daddy' gonna pay for his space trips?
“Forced to pay”?? Lmao nobody is forcing you to pay anything at all. If you do not like it, you can simply give another company your business. What Amazon offers is not anything unique, there’s tons of alternative options.
But I understand, some people just have to play victim and complain about everything. Can’t please everyone
Putting this into perspective, Amazon grabbed $46B in profit per their report yesterday. Shave 1% off that 46B and put it directly into their driver's pockets -- their drivers are now making 17% more wages. Or they could put some of that back in the customer's pockets. There are indeed different levels of profiteering and Bezos is the worst. Fact.
ok... and after that jump in inflation in 2021 they still only increased it the same $20 they did the prior times. So once again still no reason to expect an increase before 2026.
Well since prime delivery has turned from one day to 3 days it’s a cheek to call it Prime and raise the price.
Worth it for WOT the tv show alone!
(Also it’s prime. 3 days for most items is totally worth it to me).
(Also it’s prime. 3 days for most items is totally worth it to me).
I did not know about that NFL contract & it is ridiculous that everyone pays when it definitely should be an addon like HBO or any of the others.
I would pay extra to ensure no sports related content of any kind ever showed up in my Prime video feed.
Amazon did not have $46 billion in profits. Net income was $33.364 billion for the year and $14.323 billion for the quarter. And as I mentioned earlier, most of that is coming from AWS, not retail operations.
If you look at their retail segment, their profit was signifcantly less... $6.347 billion for 2021 and a loss of $1.833 billion for the 4th quarter.
The worst? ? Apple's 2021 profit grew 64.92% to $94.680 billion compared to Amazon's 56.4% increase to $33.364 billion. Apple's profit and operating margins much much higher than Amazon's single digit margins.
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Nor does dismantling the bridge to get it out to sea:
A Historic Bridge Must Be Dismantled To Get Jeff Bezos' $540 Million Yacht Out Of Dock - Jalopnik
A Dutch company is currently building a 417-foot mega yacht for Amazon founder Jeff Bezos that, once complete, will be the largest sailing vessel in the world. The only problem? Its three masts are too tall to leave the shipyard without dismantling a huge piece of Dutch history and...jalopnik.com
Yes let's tax the rich to pay for more useless bureaucrat salaries and military spending. How about having them give a certain percentage straight to charities or solving the homelessness issue that has become absolutely insane in major cities like LA and SF?
Prime stopped making sense in the US a long time ago when retailers started offering free shipping. Heck, Walmart will often deliver my stuff the same day for free AND they’re cheaper for a lot of things. If you’re hooked on a ton of prime videos, that’s one thing, but I rarely watch TV shows and I don’t know too many people who would pay for prime over netflix.
If they did, the price would drop by about $10 (max) - lol
The money is basically all for the shipping
Yeah that's a good point that Apple operates on higher margins. Can't fully correlate margin with corporate greed...although that would be interesting data to see
I see Apple as the one tech giant who still "relatively" cares about customer privacy and isn't haphazardly stepping into/stepping on other industries. If Amazon has the resources for all that nonsense, they can unpad some of that margin.. just sayin. Then again, apple could too!
I have three or four alternate email addresses I use depending on how likely I figure the spam might be, and really ony monitor the one I use with the vendors I do want to hear from.
I also never give my primary email to anyone but friends/family. Been doing that for many years.
How so? Around here I can drop off the return at the nearby UPS store or the Amazon stand within Kohls department store. Show them the return QR code on my phone and get a drop-off receipt.
Still pretty good where I am. I think it’s been over a year since I had a delayed package form Amazon. I regularly get same days deliveries too.
Bezos still needs to buy more toys and penis rockets, so... probably next year.
Not sure about anyone else but I haven't had a package delivered in much less than a week since I don't even remember when. A robot vacuum to replace our dead Roomba got lost Wednesday and Amazon offered to replace with a new delivery date of 18Feb. No thanks: just refund my purchase. By 18Feb I'll be walking on a carpet of cat hair.
Got the same deal from Walmart.com (without having to 'clip a coupon') and the new one arrived about an hour ago (18 hours from order to door).
I think I might feel differently if I lived in some far corner of the US but we are in Manhattan. I get faster deliveries to our place in Puerto Rico!
I'll save my $140 this year and let Amazon keep delivering 36 pounds of cat litter and 15 pounds of cat food every 2 months for free...
Got the same deal from Walmart.com (without having to 'clip a coupon') and the new one arrived about an hour ago (18 hours from order to door).
I think I might feel differently if I lived in some far corner of the US but we are in Manhattan. I get faster deliveries to our place in Puerto Rico!
I'll save my $140 this year and let Amazon keep delivering 36 pounds of cat litter and 15 pounds of cat food every 2 months for free...
The rich giving to charities isn't going to pay for the Fern Hollow Bridge that just collapsed. But taxing them will.
I do agree with where you're aiming, though.
Orders over $25 in the US ship free anyway. So, if I pool a few items together it doesn't take much to hit the magical $25 mark. And now that delivery times are 5+ days on every single order (since the middle of the pandemic) I'm not saving any time with the lie that is "2 day shipping".
…is really just them laundering their reputations or piddling away on little pet issues of theirs.
It will never even come close to what is needed to get out of them..
Taxing it out of them is the only way