Amazon Prime up to $119
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Not surprising, and I'll sgladly pay the $20 increase. A huge majority of my day to day shopping, probably 80-90% besides groceries, is from Amazon. That two day is awesome, the amount of stuff I've 2-days far outweighs $120...
Also, convenience factor is through the roof.
Also, convenience factor is through the roof.
mototireguy
Moto Tire Veteran
Your gripe being...?
msethhunter
Well-known member
Your gripe being...?
I don't order shit from Amazon. But I do use them as a quadi search engine. I look to see who the seller is, and if they have their own website to order from.
Pretty much fuck Amazon.
rsrider
47% parasite 53% ahole
The increase for new members is May, and the increase for current members is June 2. So if you're current and renew in May, you'll get the year for $99. My renewal date is May27......................
arty I save $20!!!! meh......
I've read stories where they are surveying current members and it's around 45% that are going to cancel. Most being in rural areas where 2 day delivery is a pipe dream and Cletus steals packages off the porch when there's no banjo playing going on. who knows, and who cares..........The Tick is on Prime and I must watch. Spoooooooooon!!!!
arty I save $20!!!! meh......I've read stories where they are surveying current members and it's around 45% that are going to cancel. Most being in rural areas where 2 day delivery is a pipe dream and Cletus steals packages off the porch when there's no banjo playing going on. who knows, and who cares..........The Tick is on Prime and I must watch. Spoooooooooon!!!!
Kestrel
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Amen. Bezos to me is a modern day Umbrella Corp. Amazon is the kind of company that would do every/anything for cash & market domination, the outcome of the human race be damned. I do not trust them at all.
lefty
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The increase for new members is May, and the increase for current members is June 2. So if you're current and renew in May, you'll get the year for $99. My renewal date is May27......................
I've read stories where they are surveying current members and it's around 45% that are going to cancel. Most being in rural areas where 2 day delivery is a pipe dream and Cletus steals packages off the porch when there's no banjo playing going on. who knows, and who cares..........The Tick is on Prime and I must watch. Spoooooooooon!!!!
That last sentence!!!!!!!! :rofl
Reli
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Amazon is very convenient, sure, but probably harmful to the environment. All those cardboard boxes to enclose some silly little item you purchased, lol. Plus, groceries? You could have picked up tons of them in one trip, but now you force a driver to come give you 2-3 items each day, lol. First world problems 
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CoorsLight
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Amazon patrons are supporting an internet WalMart with more potential to destroy small business than perhaps any entity in history. Not to mention their abuse of the tax code and reliance on goivt assistance for their employees. This is a parasitic company.
Stop. Buying. Amazon.
Stop. Buying. Amazon.
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CoorsLight
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If you drink heavily enough, you won't need Amazon anymore.
SFSV650
The Slowest Sprotbike™
You're not wrong.
I wonder what kind of price increase it would take for Amazon to pay a living wage, and whether they'd remain competitive. Last I read they had double the head count of JC Penney with ten times the sales volume.
I think it's going to be the opposite. People will look back and wonder why companies used to cover the enormous fixed costs for maintaining their own IT resources.
Not a good point in time to be starting an IT service career
AbsolutEnduser
Throttle Pusher
Didn't AWS go down on Netflix once,,.. semi on purpose or something?
and then service to the Customer's Customers Was cut off?
It was either Netflix of some other big name.
And then suddenly , the power.
and then service to the Customer's Customers Was cut off?
It was either Netflix of some other big name.
And then suddenly , the power.
Archimedes
Fire Watcher
And the homeless problem in SF. I hear that's caused by tech companies, so Amazon must be responsible for it's relative percentage of total market cap of the tech industry. How dare they create an incredibly efficient company, employ thousands and thousands of people, and make life way easier for millions. For shame.
I loved their move this week stopping construction on their new building in Seattle and deciding to sublease all the space they recently leased in another building, all in response to Seattle wanting to add yet another tax on Amazon to pay for their problems. Don't want us here? Fine, we'll put those employees in Boston or Austin or Denver.
Blankpage
alien
Or Vancouver. They had a meeting this week just across the border to discuss expansion of operations there and something like an additional 1000 jobs.
I've been amused by that too.... perhaps someone could go to a Seattle City Council meeting and read the two parables of; " don't kill the golden goose" and "don't put all your eggs in one basket" :laughing