ive officially also cancelled my Netflix subscription thanks to amazon... they recently added PS3 support, so with an Amazon Prime account (i pay $39/yr for it) i get free 2-day shipping on everything i buy from amazon and also get unlimited streaming to my PS3 with Amazon's video app.
for the most part i have switched...
movie streaming from Netflix -> Amazon (essentially free with my prime sub)
hardware purchases from newegg -> Amazon (same price and faster shipping)
game purchases from Steam -> Amazon (cheaper for many games and unlocks on Steam)
android app purchases from Google -> Amazon (frequently rotates free apps)
im still using spotify for my music streaming since i have a free grandfathered account but i would be tempted to switch to amazon as well
Free 2 day shipping is nice, but the prime eligible video offering looks worse then Netflix's online streaming.
If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
I just use free shipping...so I already get the savings I guess.
I use the next day option quite frequently. I used same-day pretty often when I lived in NYC.
I don't know if this speaks louder to my laziness or love for Amazon, but when I get down to that last roll of toilet paper or toothpaste I don't even think about going to the store anymore. I just buy it on Amazon.
prime is awesome because there is no minimum.. before, i would have to wait until i needed $25 worth of stuff to quality for free 3 day shipping... now i just click and order a $2 bottle of toothpaste or some random 50-cent electronic part and get free 2-day shipping... thats worth $40/yr for me
prime is awesome because there is no minimum.. before, i would have to wait until i needed $25 worth of stuff to quality for free 3 day shipping... now i just click and order a $2 bottle of toothpaste or some random 50-cent electronic part and get free 2-day shipping... thats worth $40/yr for me
It's also $79 for your entire family. Not a lot of people realize that. You can link it to 5 accounts other.
Dang, I didn't realize that. I pay for prime, and my fiancee uses my account because she doesn't want to pay for shipping. I'll link her's in. Good tip man.
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prime is awesome because there is no minimum.. before, i would have to wait until i needed $25 worth of stuff to quality for free 3 day shipping... now i just click and order a $2 bottle of toothpaste or some random 50-cent electronic part and get free 2-day shipping... thats worth $40/yr for me
I get %15 off at Target for all my purchases. I do my everyday buying there. I also don;t have to wait 2 days for toilet paper. Pretty sweet deal when I have to take a dump today and don't want to wipe with a sock or left over magazines.
The 2 day free shipping is nice, but the video selection still blows. From the standpoint as a replacement to Netflix streaming, I find it sorely lacking.
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If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
I get %15 off at Target for all my purchases. I do my everyday buying there. I also don;t have to wait 2 days for toilet paper. Pretty sweet deal when I have to take a dump today and don't want to wipe with a sock or left over magazines.
The 2 day free shipping is nice, but the video selection still blows. From the standpoint as a replacement to Netflix streaming, I find it sorely lacking.
Made me choke on my coffee....Agree on the streaming selection, but use Prime myself and it pays for itself with the 2-day shipping at Christmas time for me. The rest of the year is just a nice bonus to me knowing just about anything I order will be here in 2-days.
I get %15 off at Target for all my purchases. I do my everyday buying there. I also don;t have to wait 2 days for toilet paper. Pretty sweet deal when I have to take a dump today and don't want to wipe with a sock or left over magazines.
The 2 day free shipping is nice, but the video selection still blows. From the standpoint as a replacement to Netflix streaming, I find it sorely lacking.
I agree, they are not a replacement for netflix yet. I don't have any doubt they will become the golden standard eventually though. I find the amazon service, without taking the selection into account, to be of lesser quality. I get quite a lot of buffering with amazon, but never with netflix.
I agree, they are not a replacement for netflix yet. I don't have any doubt they will become the golden standard eventually though. I find the amazon service, without taking the selection into account, to be of lesser quality. I get quite a lot of buffering with amazon, but never with netflix.
The video quality is also not as good. Not as much HD stuff.
I would never pay for the Amazon offering alone, but honestly I think that's kind of the idea and the way they are selling it into studios. They want you to have the sub-par Prime experience and then go out and buy the content.
I'm pretty heavily invested into the iOS ecosystem, so I find myself watching something on Prime then buying it on iTunes. If Amazon offered H.264 MP4s I'd buy from Amazon, but I'm not buying into any Windows Media Player BS. The iTunes DRM is also pretty easy to strip away.
The video quality is also not as good. Not as much HD stuff.
I would never pay for the Amazon offering alone, but honestly I think that's kind of the idea and the way they are selling it into studios. They want you to have the sub-par Prime experience and then go out and buy the content.
I'm pretty heavily invested into the iOS ecosystem, so I find myself watching something on Prime then buying it on iTunes. If Amazon offered H.264 MP4s I'd buy from Amazon, but I'm not buying into any Windows Media Player BS. The iTunes DRM is also pretty easy to strip away.
What do yo use to strip the iTunes DRM? I currently buy video elsewhere and then format to iTunes because I refuse to deal with their DRM crap.
If we hit that bull's eye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.
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