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Prime seems to have moved from promoting the benefits to active trickery. Even prime video is useless everything is rent or pay extra on there.

I signed up for prime again last month to get faster shipping. Still took two days and more and more products on Amazon aren’t “prime” compatible and make you pay for shipping anyway so , cancelled again. See ya prime !

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What products require you to pay more for shipping?

Only things I have seen are items sold by third parties such as used books and Amazon offering to ship same day/overnight for an extra $2.99 (unless you spend over $35). I have had issues in the past though where you get "Prime Free Two-Day Shipping!" but fail to tell you it takes several days for them to actually process before shipping the item.

This is definitely a geographical issue. For about 2 years everything prime was taking a week to process for me in upstate NY. If I travelled anywhere else, the 2 day shipping was holding. Suddenly out of nowhere the shipping gets fixed in upstate NY.

I’m seriously wondering if they’re A/B testing retention of prime users when they make the service worse.

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