Amazon Prime going up to £95 per year!

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Nosmo-King

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Just notified of this with a link to cancel it.An option I have exercised! Can’t justify such a rise - and am sure I won’t be alone.
 
I do buy plenty on Amazon & for £95 a year - "free" - postage of Amazon Prime orders alone probably covers it.. to get the TV makes it ok...

From £85 to £95 a year.. not ideal, though I don't pay for Sky, which I do think is a rip off esp having to pay them for "HD"..
 
To be fair to Amazon they have kept Prime at £79 a year since 2014 but on the other hand going from £79 to £95 is a 20% increase, more than double the rate of inflation.
 
Just read this on sky news app. I actually cancelled my prime for the 1st time in about 10 years 2 weeks ago and that was at £79.

I'm already regretting it and very close to activating it again. It's not so much the streaming side of it. It's how reliant I've become ordering on amazon. A couple of times last week I wanted something 'nextday' and it would have cost me £4.99 P&P. You also don't get the prime deals.

So I'm sure I'll be paying by the end of the week. I'm also left netfix and Disney and not missed them one bit.

I think the prime fee is more about the shopping. Although the odd prem game etc is alright.

The believe the price rise isn't until 15th September? So people can still get in on the old price for a while if coming back or renewal before then.

I've moaned about most things going up. They've gone 8 years without a rise and provide an amazing 'service' retail wise. I can't moan. Just means I will almost certainly resubscribe soon... Maybe that the clever marketing idea 😂
 
Premier League football and free delivery makes me think it's still worth it if it's your primary streaming service.

But when you have multiple subscriptions, the costs really add up.
 
If you pay monthly like I and most of us do, if you can afford it, change it today and the yearly price is £79 saving £16, the new price won't start till 7/23
 
I’ll be keeping Prime even with the price increase but I’ve binned Netflix off, their prices plans are outrageous and then with the new rules coming in about households in August I couldn’t justify it anymore.
 
TeaCider said:
Premier League football and free delivery makes me think it's still worth it if it's your primary streaming service.

But when you have multiple subscriptions, the costs really add up.
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I've gone from having them all in Disney / Prime / Spotify and Netfix to cancelling them all in the last month.

It's not even cost. I just wasn't using them. Although definitely missing the shopping side of prime and almost definitely going to resubscribe.

The best thing I've got is YouTube premium. Once you've had it you can't go back. No adverts and ability to download etc. It comes 'free' with my 2 year Vodafone contract. I think I'd pay it anyhow.
 
S7DiscoDown said:
I've gone from having them all in Disney / Prime / Spotify and Netfix to cancelling them all in the last month.

It's not even cost. I just wasn't using them. Although definitely missing the shopping side of prime and almost definitely going to resubscribe.

The best thing I've got is YouTube premium. Once you've had it you can't go back. No adverts and ability to download etc. It comes 'free' with my 2 year Vodafone contract. I think I'd pay it anyhow.
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would agree with YouTube premium I use it a lot.
 
Fat_Dragon said:
Best thing to do is just subscribe to one at a time say Netflix for a few months and binge watch everything then cancel it and watch another service for a couple of months and binge watch that.
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Yeah, I think I need to start being a bit more proactive with mine.
I'm paying for Disney+ every month when I rarely watch anything on there outside of the big weekly releases, and they're not coming around often enough to make it worth it.

I'd probably do better just waiting for all the episodes to come out and try to avoid spoilers when money is tight.
 
I'd get it if Amazon had taken a massive hit during Covid, needed to recoup money etc....but they boomed, were one of the big success stories for this period. So massively increasing profits yet upping subscriptions.......nice one Bezos you greedy c*nt.
 
Nosmo-King said:
Just notified of this with a link to cancel it.An option I have exercised! Can’t justify such a rise - and am sure I won’t be alone.
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Come on tight @rse get your hand in your pocket. You have more foreign holidays than Judith Chalmers, you must be able to afford an extra tenner !!!
 
Compare the price to Disney Plus and Netflix, it's a kick in the teeth but you get a lot more bang for your buck.
 
I get over 200 deliveries a year from amazon, the prime video is really good and as much as we all hate price increases, inflation is about 10% currently so isn't really unexpected. Given inflation, it's not really giving them extra profit, if anything may cost them subscribers but that then brings down their costs of people have to start paying postage
 
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