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Originally Posted by kpxgq
Free 2 day shipping is nice, but the prime eligible video offering looks worse then Netflix's online streaming.
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Originally Posted by kpxgq
Free 2 day shipping is nice, but the prime eligible video offering looks worse then Netflix's online streaming.
I consider the prime videos to be a free perk. I'll easily save $80 in shipping in a single month.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Me too. You also get free select kindle books that you can download through the kindle app on iOS.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImaNihilist
I just use free shipping...so I already get the savings I guess.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImaNihilist
I use the next day option quite frequently. I used same-day pretty often when I lived in NYC.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
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
This is why I use Prime as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by kpxgq
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. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ImaNihilist
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by kpxgq
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Sstudent prime used to be free for a year. Its spoiled me so much I think I might pay for it this year.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
The video quality is also not as good. Not as much HD stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timman_24
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by ImaNihilist