Why I cancelled my Amazon Prime account

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That's a lot of words to say nothing, really. Amazon Prime is so insignificant in cost that it makes no sense not to have it. And the author already admitted to sharing logins, which is no doubt a violation of their use policy and a morally vague thing to do, at best.

If it's one household, sharing prime is an option, sharing account is mostly accountability for what happens if it is compromised. And obviously against tos, EULA and it's probably one of the fully legal clauses.

Whether it's insignificant in cost depends on how you look at it.

Amazon prime costs $119 a year, which is about equal to the interest from $5200 in a money market account. So it's not that $10/month seems like that much to me, but when I think about giving Amazon over $5K as a lump sum, it seems outrageous, like a sleazy trick, or a too-clever arbitrage.

And, you know, whether any amount paid is insignificant depends also on whether it gets you anything.

After I cancelled Prime, I noticed that Amazon was still shipping things just as quickly for free, even though they try to create uncertainty to get you to sign back up.

I've never used any other benefit of Prime.

I cancelled because they shoehorned so many things in and raised the price steeply. I don't even have a device that is capable of playing prime video, so why would I pay for it?

How is this article on the front page of HN? It adds no value nor shares any real information, other than a click bait type title to get you to read it.

I used prime to watch Seinfeld. Then, in the middle of a season, I had to pay for an episode. So I cancelled it.

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