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New service launched by Amazon called "Amazon Prime". http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/subs/primeclub/signup/main.html Basically you pay £49 for a year's next day delivery on all "eligible" items (whatever that means) irrespective of value. As someone who usually goes for the free supersaver delivery, I probably wouldn't bother, but apparently this has been popular in the States. Not sure if they guarantee release-day delivery for pre-orders though. What do you reckon? Is £49 good value for money for non-tardy delivery? |
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Killerbee 5,249 posts
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infoxicated 1,509 posts
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Registered 19 years agoI think it depends on the volume of your ordering.
I did check it out when I got their mail this morning, but paying £49 in advance for stuff I *might* want delivered seemed a bit steep. -
Fat-Boy 4,300 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI'll definitely be having some of this come pay day, but only because I'm such an impatient fucker. Did you see they're doing same day delivery in London and Birmingham, if you order before 11? How fucking cool is that! -
Killerbee 5,249 posts
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Registered 20 years agoFat Boy wrote:
I'll definitely be having some of this come pay day, but only because I'm such an impatient fucker. Did you see they're doing same day delivery in London and Birmingham, if you order before 11? How fucking cool is that!
Very cool. But it's still extra on top of your £49, which makes it slightly less awesome imo.
I suppose if I ordered a lot off Amazon and could rely on them being the cheapest, I'd probably go for it, but in practice, I do tend to shop around more and I can usually put up with the wait if it means saving a few quid.
Otherwise I might as well go out to the shops. -
dr_swin 4,929 posts
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Registered 16 years agoi use shopto for my online games shopping these days. they tend to post out well in advance of the release dates to ensure you get your product on release. quite often it arrives the day before leaving you feeling very smug. prices good too. -
FYI, Amazon are running a free monthly trial of this at the moment, so as long as you remember to cancel before the end of the month (although you can set it not to auto-renew anyway), you'll have a month of free next-day deliveries. -
dnbuk 5,011 posts
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Registered 16 years ago6 year bump! Prime now includes video streaming (Movies & TV shows) It seems to work great so far and there's a decent selection of stuff. I think they're still doing the one month free trial for Prime as well. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoIt's basically Lovefilm with the name crossed out and Amazon written over the top in crayon, it's fine though as I've used it to stream a fair amount in the past. Much better since it started doing HD stuff.
Got an email that my two disc sub to LF was dropping in price to 6 quid (I'm already a Prime customer) but I may just knock that on the head. Prime is, of course, going up in price to £79. -
Kostabi 5,926 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI've used Prime for years so this is a nice little bonus until the price hike.
The price difference still works out to half of what I'd pay Netflix for the year and not a massive difference in catalogue. Makes it hard to quibble with the pricing really.
Edited by Kostabi at 20:22:19 26-02-2014 -
Gambit1977 10,398 posts
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Registered 14 years agoYou've been able to log in to lovefilm with your prime account for a while now. Always felt like a great bonus, the price hike may not make it feel so bonus like anymore. Game streaming and we're talking! -
ILoveThrashMetal 1,066 posts
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Registered 10 years agoThe retro kids bit is taking me back, he-man, Bertha, trap door, parsley the lion, thundercats, inspector gadget, moshchops, Charlie chalk, morph. All worth the £50 alone! -
billythekid 12,595 posts
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Registered 16 years agob0rk wrote:
Yeah but you get Amazon instant video now, want it or not.
79 quid auto renewal my fucking arse!
Bit of a piss take move but I'll keep with it due to the amount I order from them. -
DaM 17,729 posts
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Registered 20 years agoBastards. I'm just going to buy more from them now, to cost them more money, that'll show them.
Or watch some of the shitty films they have. -
billythekid 12,595 posts
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Registered 16 years agob0rk wrote:
Used to be Lovefilm.
Oh ya? What's this instant video thingy? -
billythekid 12,595 posts
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Registered 16 years agoYeah, the content is pretty good actually. Although I still use Netflix more. -
CHPxtreme 413 posts
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Registered 7 years agoWarning! In my opinion, Amazon now appear to be doing "stealth" signups to this service.
I used to be an Amazon Prime member, but cancelled due to their guaranteed deliveries not actually delivering as guaranteed. All well and good - the service didn't live up to the promise so I cancelled.
Lately, they have been a bit sneaky when encouraging me to sign up for prime. It started with a simple "click here to try Prime for a month" button which was away from the "go to checkout" button. The buttons gradually got closer together (I buy a fair bit from Amazon). Then they changed it to a big orange button which included the prime membership option, and a grey button just below which offered the option to continue without Prime membership. This is annoying since I always need to make sure I'm not clicking on their latest method of fooling me into signing up. They finally got me last week when I continued to payment as usual by clicking on the grey button (which was slightly reworded, and was catching my eye, but too late) and next thing I have a new menu across the top which was the Prime membership menu.
When I went to the section to manage my Prime membership, there was a notification that on 7th May I will be charged £79 for another year of membership.
Obviously, they got an email and I've now cancelled the membership that I never wanted to sign up for.
Anyway, for anyone using Amazon, it might be worth checking that you have not been charged without your knowledge. I mentioned this to a friend of mine who said he isn't an Amazon Prime member, and in fact, implied that there's no way he'd be fooled like I claimed to be.
I felt somewhat vindicated when my friend called me in high dudgeon over Amazon's underhand tactics when he found out that he was paying £79 a year without knowing about it. -
faux-C 11,204 posts
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Registered 17 years agoWeird first post. -
CHPxtreme 413 posts
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/gets a blog -
Dougs 100,414 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHelpful 1st post though. Re-reg? -
Not-a-reviewer 7,686 posts
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Registered 7 years agoBit of a long post for a reg.
Anyway, it's not that stealth as they email to tell you you've signed up for it and then again when it's renewing and on your order page there's no delivery charge and it says being delivered by prime. -
uiruki 5,975 posts
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Registered 18 years agoA mate got caught out by the auto renew around Christmas but a quick online chat with the support people got him a cancellation and refund. It's about as non-shitty as this kind of automatically renewing trial can get. -
MrDigital 1,885 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI used Amazon Prime to buy a new phone which is arriving today. Annoyingly, with the carrier "Amazon Logistics", there is no delivery window estimate, and I can't track the progress of the delivery guy, which I can do with other couriers -_-
Anyway, I can see the progress slider moving. I wonder if it is actually telling me real progress (albeit somewhat cryptically), or if it's just arbitrarily sliding along. Has anyone experienced this?
Also, from being "Out to delivery" what's other people's experiences in terms of how long it actually takes?
All a bit annoying, paying for a premium service, and while the next day delivery is good, the lack of extra information is something severely lacking and has been made available to us from other couriers for years... -
MrSensible 26,517 posts
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Registered 16 years ago"Out for delivery" can mean anything to be honest. Sometimes it doesn't get with me for six hours after that. -
I have had deliveries just before 9pm, which is their cutoff. So don't make any plans.
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