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Canadians will soon see commercials on Amazon Prime Video
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In the Prime app, you can see how much you've saved with Prime over the last year... Looks like it will be cheaper for me to just cancel outright.
Oh.
I misinterpreted this, thinking it was showing me savings on shipping and such.
Instead, I think it's referring specifically to savings on purchases that were Prime Exclusive Deals or maybe Prime Early Access.
Apologies for the wild goose chase.
Adam Conover did a great video about "Free shipping" is a scam and actually ends up costing you more overall. Ultimately the companies are using the same logistics companies you could with no special discounts, and in order to make a profit pocket the excess. Which isn't as bad as the alternative what is happened with insurance where the cost of everything ballooned to obscene extents even if you had a plan, then once they were too big to fail insurance companies just stopped paying out leaving you in a smoldering crater of the full hyperinflated price.
But just because you can see a "price" for shipping. That doesn't mean that's what it actually costs the company.
It is literally my job to write the code that queries the carrier (UPS/FedRx/Speedy/Etc) and generates a label and receipt. 99% of our clients fudge the "cost" that the end customer can see. The end customer thinks it cost $20 to ship their package but the API returned $6 from UPS.
We also offer rating so that their website can "calculate" a rate of $20 externally and $6 behind the scenes.
I mean ultimately someone is paying the shipping but I don't see how it's bad, or good.
Where do you find this in the app? I found a tally for what prime services I’d used, but no savings total yet….
In the app open your profile (1) and then your account (2):
Then scroll down to Account Settings to (3) Manage Prime Membership:
And scroll down to (4) Your Prime deals and discount savings:
This is what it looks like for me:
Interesting; I don’t have that last bit; just a list of how many of each service I’ve used, which you don’t seem to have.
I see those too if I scroll down further. I'm using this version on Pixel 5 with Android 14.
Amazon App Version 26.23.4.100 Build 18.0.336079.0
I’m using the iOS version. Shouldn’t be a difference as it’s only a webpage, so it’s likely an account difference of some sort.
Maybe they only show the ‘savings’ when there’s data to show. I don’t see that either. Time for me to cancel too
Interesting! I can't find that on the mobile site, maybe I'll find it in the desktop version....