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This is the main reason I cancelled Prime. They started advertising "More than just free shipping", and I realized that I only used it for free shipping, and as Prime got more and more expensive I wasn't getting any value from it.
Now I just put stuff in my cart until I have $35 worth of stuff, and get free shipping anyway. It's not that much slower. An extra day or two usually, and it doesn't bother me one bit. I can wait a little while for my $10 guitar strap and it's not the end of the world.
I just stopped shopping at amazon altogether. My online shopping experience has improved a lot since then.
This is the correct answer. There's so much counterfeit garbage on Amazon you're better off going straight to the company that made whatever you're trying to buy or wherever else they say their product is sold
Even then sometimes manufacturers will still use Amazon for fulfillment and shipping. I agree though, the shopping experience is pretty awful and I try to avoid it
Where do you shop online?
Luis Rossman said he started buying from Ali Express because they actually sell branded supplies and do QA on their stuff (it was a reaction to Amazon selling fake products that endanger ppl)
If you're willing to wait for a month, that might work.
Anywhere and everywhere that isn't a scam site. Etsy, ebay, local and small business websites directly, b&h, sweetwater, newegg.
Newegg has gone down the toilet since being bought out (story of everything). If you have a Microcenter near you I'd recommend that.
offline or directly from sellers' webStores
I cancelled Prime and discovered that... everything shows up in 2 days anyway.
I guess being near a warehouse means you get super-fast shipping even if you don't pay for it?
And like, not just a one-time fluke: of the last ~15 or so orders, all but one showed up within 2 days, and maybe 1/3rd of them were next day. Same shipping time but no free money for Bezos? Okay, sure, I'll take it.
It used to be $25. Now it's $35, waiting for them to raise the threshold further.
I also cancelled prime. It rapidly became clear that they were, and are, deliberately delaying my shipments by like 5 days or more. They don’t even ship my orders until at least 3 days after I place them.
I notice the same thing. I think it's because they are busy moving it from a distant warehouse to one closer to you, because you can't possibly keep all of the same crap in all of the warehouses. So it's being transported, but not "shipped", allowing them to take longer.
I feel like they should pay me for watching The Rings of Power. But I’ll always be grateful to them for picking up The Expanse and finishing the show.
I loved rings of power. It’s so good! Was it not entertaining for you?
I found it boring and overwrought on its own merits. And of course it butchers the Tolkein source material. The way they bend over backwards to get the characters to repeat lines from the Peter Jackson trilogy is embarrassing, and their lame attempts at origin stories like “how Gandalf got his staff” are also embarrassing (and that one was a literal shaggydog story to boot). I liked the actor they got for Tom Bombadil but again, making him into a spirit guide for Gandalf was a cliche and butchers the source material.
Not OP, but to me the first season kind of hurt to watch. Super poor pacing, bad acting, lack of connection to the characters. The second season picked up a bit and was at least somewhat entertaining because Sauron put on a great performance and carried every scene he was in, but thats just my two cents.
I started the same thing earlier this year when my subscription to Prime was expiring. So far it really hasn’t been a big problem and has the nice perk that it encourages me to shop less at Amazon.
I mostly had it for streaming video but cancelled once they started offering a sub + ads tier for their videos, I don't want to support companies that do that greasy shit like cable TV did.