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Amazon Prime Video: Ads for TV & Movies to start early 2024; Ad-free service an extra $2.99 US/month
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Just like with Uber and Airbnb. Trick the world by undercutting the competition then slowly become worse.
10% discount on one shop a month but capped to an upper limit, 2Xloyalty points, occasional free samples; shit like that. They cost about $10/month. I've never used one, just thinking about it makes me tired. (I thought they included a delivery service but nope, haha. That one costs $20/month but only for orders over $50).
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Is there a SmartTube equivalent for Prime Video?
All the ads on YouTube are brutal, but loading SmartTube onto my Chromecast saved the day.
All the ads on YouTube are brutal, but loading SmartTube onto my Chromecast saved the day.
Walmart Canada charges $9/month or $89/year for next-day delivery at your chosen time slot for grocery orders over $35. The regular delivery fee is $8 per order for non-subscribers.
Yeah, this is incredibly annoying. I've actually watched quite a bit of content on Prime over the years, especially a few years ago when they signed a deal with HBO for a lot of their classic shows. But Mrs. Maisel, Bosch, The Boys, Jack Reacher, Vox Machina and others, I felt it was a decent addition to Prime (which I mainly had for the shipping). And I actually think their TNF broadcast is extremely well done, it's probably my favorite way to watch NFL right now.
But now it regularly takes 4 or 5 days to get items, sometimes an entire week. And that's after they've continually raised the price. I just don't know if it's worth it anymore.
But now it regularly takes 4 or 5 days to get items, sometimes an entire week. And that's after they've continually raised the price. I just don't know if it's worth it anymore.
I'll keep my prime sub for the orders but I'm not paying extra for no ads. I don't watch football. Maybe it's worth it for football fans? I hear they spent billions on that?
I almost never watch prime except for The Boys, Wheel of Time and invincible anyways. Their LOTR show was more bust than hit, and it was absolutely a bust if they paid 500 million for one season or whatever crazy amount I saw bandied about here. What a fucking waste of cash, Damn!
Wheel of time is a "pretty good" at best. It could've been better. Much better. Just facts. As it is, it's B- at best.
Either I will put up with the ads, or I won't watch amazon prime shows.
Another option is to pay them 3 bucks once a year to binge watch 3 or 4 shows and that's that. I'm not giving amazon an extra $36/year.
I almost never watch prime except for The Boys, Wheel of Time and invincible anyways. Their LOTR show was more bust than hit, and it was absolutely a bust if they paid 500 million for one season or whatever crazy amount I saw bandied about here. What a fucking waste of cash, Damn!
Wheel of time is a "pretty good" at best. It could've been better. Much better. Just facts. As it is, it's B- at best.
Either I will put up with the ads, or I won't watch amazon prime shows.
Another option is to pay them 3 bucks once a year to binge watch 3 or 4 shows and that's that. I'm not giving amazon an extra $36/year.
We dropped Prime over five years ago and 100% haven't missed it. Feels better shopping at smaller vendors when possible, too. This is another reason to say no to Prime.
what does shipping cost regularly, without prime? i read that all customers get free shipping for 4-5 day delivery? is that true? the only benefit of prime is 2 day instead of 4?
The last time I had a Prime account was about a decade ago. If I still had one, this would be enough to get me to drop the service. Fuck this ad extortion shit.
I buy things online pretty exclusively at Amazon and same or next day shipping can be important in some cases. So the prime cost is sunk into shipping for me. Still, for those that pay yearly mostly for the video, this seems like a slap in the face. Especially when they raised the cost from like $80 to $140 a year just recently. Paying $176/year just to not be forced to view ads is bullshit. Streaming subs were paid to get shows and films ad-free, and now it's all coming back around to ads now that everyone has been woo'ed away from cable, because of greed.
The simple truth is that they'll keep increasing prices as long as people keep paying. Up to ya'll to make a change 🤷♀️
Non-stop ad bombardment is such a plague of our times. It just encroaches more and more into everything & anything.
Ontario is currently packed with sports gambling ads everywhere you look, it's so disgusting.
Ontario is currently packed with sports gambling ads everywhere you look, it's so disgusting.
Haha, and give people what they want at a fair and reasonable price?! Good Resetera poster, it appears that you are not polishing the shoes of corporations enough! You should have a word with the Resetera Streaming Service Price/Policy Defense Brigade.
They still going to show ads anyway when you're trying to watch a movie and they decide to jam in a trailer for some unrelated crap?
Guess I'll watch the last season of Mrs. Maisel and then drop this shit. We've been trying to not buy anything on Amazon anyway.
Yeah, it was renewed back in February then the renewal was reversed in August "because of the strikes". They did the same to A League of Their Own.
Just another reason not to renew, then.
Truth be told outside of the 1-3 shows we actually watch on Prime (and once we finish off Maisel that'll be one less) the best thing about Prime was the selection of B-Movies. However Tubi has taken that title. Yeah Tubi has ads but I can watch for free so I can live with that.
Don't buy much off Amazon, and pretty much never buy anything that actually needs rush delivery, and was already planning to let sub end, so just another motivator here.
After that probably just add Prime into the "Take the cheap subscription deal once a year and burn through all the shows I'm interested in" rotation, at least until some bean counter gets the great idea to limit how many episodes you can watch in a timeframe, or put season finales behind additional walls, or whatever else.
The way things are only Netflix and Max provide enough to justify continuous subs.
Truth be told outside of the 1-3 shows we actually watch on Prime (and once we finish off Maisel that'll be one less) the best thing about Prime was the selection of B-Movies. However Tubi has taken that title. Yeah Tubi has ads but I can watch for free so I can live with that.
Don't buy much off Amazon, and pretty much never buy anything that actually needs rush delivery, and was already planning to let sub end, so just another motivator here.
After that probably just add Prime into the "Take the cheap subscription deal once a year and burn through all the shows I'm interested in" rotation, at least until some bean counter gets the great idea to limit how many episodes you can watch in a timeframe, or put season finales behind additional walls, or whatever else.
The way things are only Netflix and Max provide enough to justify continuous subs.
All the streaming services have increased prices. It's just Amazon's turn for ERA to whine about.
Netflix is next. Just about time for their annual price increase.
Same.
With shopping on prime very few things outside of major/popular items are two-day. Specialty items can take longer.
I used to take the digital credits for lumping deliveries but screw that now. I've been slowly getting more products directly from vendors or other sites I'm so sick of prime.
Video used to be passable but the latest update isn't just horrible from a UI perspective (shifting content boxes on click) it also pushes paid extra channels and buy and rent heavily.
The overall prime experience keeps getting worse. I purposedly avoid sponsored ads but it can be half a page depending on the product. Flat out greed
The benefit of Prime shipping is no order minimum. You can buy a two dollar pen and get it shipped for free.
The promise of Prime used to be free two-day shipping, but shipping times with Prime have crept up and up. It's still generally a little faster than "Super Saver" shipping, but not by much — maybe you get it in four days instead of five.
well then, I guess i will just have ads for Wheel of Time, the Boys and whatever else I watch on Prime.
I do wonder if this will bleed into the Amazon kids stuff, my kids use their tablets with Amazon kids to watch tons of stuff (like super wings, Classic Thomas and Friends)
I do wonder if this will bleed into the Amazon kids stuff, my kids use their tablets with Amazon kids to watch tons of stuff (like super wings, Classic Thomas and Friends)
Nope, this is the new cable bundling. If you want stuff delivered you must now pay for music, sport, photos, shitty movies from 1974 and new TV series no-one asked for.
See the way Netflix won't give you video in a resolution from this century without buying 15 simultaneous screens you can only use in one room or whatever their current wheeze is.
And yet he's still verified...
He didn't pay, Musk just got embarrassed and "gave" it to them for free to make it look that way.