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Prime video is free with your Prime subscription. You are going to go back to slow, paid delivery on Amazon?

You just have to spend $35 at a time to get free delivery. Not having Prime anymore means I have lot fewer $5 bits of Chinese junk lying around my house.

Prime shipping isn’t faster. And you get free shipping if you batch your orders. Which you should do anyway to cut down on packaging.

I had a free shipping Walmart order delivered in two days. So that’s an option too. When companies offer worse products for the same price the market will respond by making the competition more attractive.

It wouldn't work for me. There are many occasions I make use of the free shipping, like replacement 3d printer nozzles, or cleaning brushes, or car parts, list goes on. Batching would be very inconvenient for these things. And having moved to a big house in the suburbs I'm too far from stores where one could buy this stuff (and half of the items are not even available in brick-and-mortars). Bottom line, it's a valuable enough service even without any TV.

I cancelled my prime subscription a few months ago (UK), and like others have commented it's really not a huge loss and it actually pushes me to think more about whether I want to buy something rather than just adding it to cart because it's cheap and free shipping.

(Obviously my cancellation wasn't in response to this news, and I hardly ever watched prime video anyway - for me it was the fact that for years Amazon has been getting less and less reliable, more filled with junk and counterfeits, and especially that they've never done anything about the commingling problem that leads to knock off items being kept in the same buckets as official items, such that if you buy for example an iphone charger that is "sold by Apple directly, shipped by Amazon" you might get one genuinely provided by Apple or you might get a dodgy one that pretends to be sold by Apple.)

I actually did, and now feel liberated. It stops a lot of impulse buying.

In Europe (at least where I am) the time difference is negligible, and if you buy 39,90 or so you get free shipping.

Below that you can also get free shipping by selecting a drop-off location, e. g. an Amazon locker.

I canceled my Prime membership years ago. They rarely met their shipping speed promises, and after getting counterfeit, or obviously used/broken/returned items I just decided it's not worth it.

I haven't bought anything on Amazon in years. There are better sites and sellers for anything you need.

Walmart.com is good, but avoid any 3rd party sellers -- only buy from Walmart itself. They do not do a good job keeping fraudsters off of their platform.

We did this recently due to some changes in our situation for about the last 10 months, after about 3-4 years of prime. Bought a lot less stuff in general I think, and they still had free shipping options when we did. Just had to plan ahead and adjust our mindset, saved 80$ (CAD).

You don't actually need to order anything from Amazon. I don't know how much of a QoL increase it is to have that luxury for anyone except maybe impulse project-hobbyists. Even so, project planning is a skill worth honing.

I doubt most will. I will, but I don't buy that much from them anyway.

Prime shipping is almost worthless these days. The good stuff you actually want to buy isn’t on Prime. You know what’s on Prime? Knockoffs from QZEEVLO and YAAOUIE brands.

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