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I have been buying from Amazon for 20 years and have not once used 1-Click.

I've used it a few times but only because I know amazon's costs and shipping policies are consistent, and they give you enough information up front on the item page to make a fully informed purchase decision.

Other ecommerce sites frequently have so many additional/hidden charges that I would never want to click "buy" right from the item page. I abandon so many carts when I get to the checkout page because there's $20 in shipping charges on a $8 item, or they've tacked on a $5 handling fee, or they wait until the very end of the process to tell you that the item will ship in 8 weeks.

Maybe it is different in the US, but in the UK the charges being inconsistent is the reason I do not use One Click. (Amazon UK not being as good seems to be a theme in these comments.)

I don't think that's the case for Amazon Prime (UK customer)

In my experience the price shown and delivery time estimate is always accurate, and as a Prime customer the delivery fee is included in your subscription

I'm in virtually the same boat as you. I've been a prime customer for over a decade even and have easily spent over $500k with them (lots of business purchases) throughout the years, yet I've used 1-click purchase a single digit number of times.

I'm using it because I know I have time to cancel it if it's a mistake, and worst case scenario it's very easy to send them back stuff. Just print the return slip.

I used it once. About an hour later after nearly having a heart attack when I saw the email that I had purchased a $5,000 generator. I quickly canceled it, but it would have been such a pain to try to ship that back or even take delivery of it. I disabled it and still do.

Just because it is easy to return things doesn't make me feel good about doing it - it is such a waste. Maybe I should look at it as creating jobs.

I only use it for Kindle books.

I've never used it for other things though, even as a Prime customer.

My main issue with it is I use different delivery addresses, sometimes to work, sometimes to an Amazon Locker, rarely to home as I'm never in.

I use it all the time and it's terrific. Stupid patent, but useful feature.

I use the one-click patent everytime I buy music from the iTunes Music Store.

it very rarely works... you click it and then it asks to update your credit card details (even though I've been buying using that card for years)

hmm works for me all the time... but i'm curious i wonder are you running a standard browser, locally without proxy, from within the US? Not that i'm advocating you must, but curious if you hit on any of these?

chrome, no proxy, UK amazon from the UK

it's probably because I don't use 1-click that often, because it is rarely 1-click, which leads to me not using it very often

(I use normal buying constantly though)

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