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Time to ditch Amazon Prime?
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According to the comments, I might be the only person on earth that subscribed to Prime exclusively for their shipping.
PS: 🏴☠️
I am with you. Their streaming service was always subpar to competitors. In fact, I watched only one series there -the expanse, and that’s it.
God forgive me, I'm going defend Prime. I always thought that because Prime was also required for faster shipping, they were willing to explore artistic shows that something like Netflix wouldn't touch these days. People likely aren't subscribing or cancelling because of the video offer, so they have more freedom to greenlight interesting concepts.
Prime shows like Solos and Tales from the Loop probably aren't great for getting new subscribers, but they're absolutely wonderful, especially compared to season 47 of [generic low-budget comedy baking reality show]. Shows like The Expanse, Mr Robot, Homecoming are all solid and Prime seems far less likely to cancel shows before they end properly.
I'm going to add onto that The Boys and Invincible. Ya I agree that it's probably one of the better ones.
I loved what the grand tour was able to accomplish on prime that they simply couldn't on BBC with top gear. The early seasons are wonky with weird formatting, but when they started focusing more on specials in the later seasons (seamen, eurocrash, the Mongolian special, a massive hunt) have been some of the best top gear content since like top gear season 7
I'm almost impressed by how bad their UI is. It's like they didn't even try to create something useful, but simply shoehorned it into the regular Amazon codebase.
The only service with worse UI is Sky, and if Sky is your benchmark, than you're done.
I so much agree. I would never go to Amazon service to buy new movies (for streaming). It is not easy to see what is in your library and sort/search it.
I pay $0 for my streaming service, and it has everything i want on it. Yaaaaarrrrrr
Paper Girls is pretty good too.
I think we had Prime before streaming even started, so that was like a bonus.
But lately we hardly use it. The site is so janky and bloated with trash, I’d rather pay shipping and buy directly from a brand website or a normal retailer. Most have free shipping nowadays anyway.
I just bought an Apple USB wall adapter from Amazon because Best Buy was out of them. I spent like 20 minutes inspecting it and the package and watching videos about how to make sure it isn’t counterfeit. Buying a $20 thing shouldn’t be a stressful ordeal.
Naw, I was too. Haven't been for a year or two, but I've only ever subscribed to them for the shipping. Barely used their streaming when I did cause, also, yarr 🏴☠️
Imagine for a second you were a paid member of a gym, but decided to do most of your exercise outside the gym you just paid for.
That's most streaming platforms for a large amount of people. They're so inconvenient that people will pay for them, and still not use the service they paid for.
A damning indictment of modern day streaming platforms tbh.
the music is a more significant boost to the shipping than the video.
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We just write down things we need to get from Amazon, then wait until they give us another free trial month of Prime and do it all at once lol.