(August 15, 2016 at 12:01 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: I too found cancellation an easy process when my first subscription to Prime was up for renewal. They even offered me the choice of canceling the day I submitted the cancellation request or at the renewal date. It was all automated. No email or customer service rep required. I just clicked on my desired cancellation choice. I don't think they mess around like internet scams typically do.
I just checked. I clicked on the Prime logo, at the bottom of the page was a link to managing my Prime account, on that page was an option to 'end membership', and clicking that I was given three options: notify me 3 days before renewal, end membership, or keep membership. I can understand your fear of getting scammed, but I don't think Amazon is in the business of doing that with Prime.
Overall I love Amazon as a company... it's my first port of call for most purchases, I get all my music from there, I've got hundreds of kindle books from there, I've had a business selling on there, and I am - or was - pretty well acquainted with their web services as a programmer. So I have had a lot of dealings with them, but nonetheless I always instinctively resist when I feel that a company is trying to force something on me. It's like the whole windows 10 upgrade business, with windows trying to sneak it in as an update and also as I'm hearing now, them deliberately messing with the update process of earlier versions of windows to presumably frustrate you into upgrading.
But anyway, back to Prime, it's just about really whether it's good value for money for me, given that I don't mind slow delivery and I no longer have the bandwidth to use services like Netflix. I had access to Netflix for a few months while I was staying with my sister, who had unlimited internet and a smart TV, but now I'm back home and on a small monthly limit and no smart tv. So netflix and suchlike is unfortunately out for me. It's a shame because I really liked it... I chipped in to the subscription while I was there and I certainly got my money's worth. But by the time I was going home I felt like the content was running dry for me, having trouble finding something to watch, given that I'd given myself a rule to no longer watch series because they weren't good for me... having watched through both Breaking Bad and Dexter in just a matter of weeks, in total zombie fashion
So limited really to films unless I wanted to get into that state again (or learn some self-discipline ). But anyway, it was a major paradigm shift for me... from Sky to Netflix... and I definitely prefer the latter, both because it's on demand and because of the lack of adverts... but unfortunately I'm back stuck on the former. But regarding netflix vs amazon video, I heard pretty much what Rhythm said... that they're very similar in nature, just a different selection... so if I had the bandwidth for it, I'd definitely consider Amazon Video as a plus point in considering Prime, but if I went with it I would probably end up still getting them both.
