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How many of you are Amazon Prime members?
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Yeah I’ve just started saving everything I plan to buy in ‘save for later’ so I just can just move to cart and check out.
We've been Prime members since the late 1990s. We use it a lot, in a lot of different ways. Amazon is a great place to track down obscure things, and the pricing is often attractive even on things that aren't obscure. Having delivery dates that are mostly date-certain is a big plus in a lot of ways. We use Amazon Video a great deal, alongside Netflix and iTunes (there's a lot of non-overlap among the three). Kindle and Audible aren't necessarily Prime-related, but we use those a lot also. I'm sure there are things I'm forgetting, but I'm sure that even after the last price increase we don't have any question about the value of Prime membership.
I love it, have had it for several years and make purchases from it frequently. If you made twelve purchases per year that cost you $10 a pop you'd have paid for your Prime membership. I'm suggesting $10 on average. Not to mention the convenience of having items shipped to me without having to drive around to find or purchase them. It's a major convenience factor for me.
It's originated from one account, like right now if I go to Your Account >> Your Prime Membership, site shows my name, and Primary Member as my wife.
Look around in your account settings, under Manage Prime, specifically something under your Prime Membership, called Share your Benefits, and there's a button Manage Household where you can invite people into your Prime account.
Been a member since about 2005. Ordered an office chair a couple of weeks ago on a Saturday and was delivered next day. Got a £12 refund for posting a revue from the seller albeit being a positive one, Where else on line would that happen.
I am an Amazon addict. I am on average 1-2 orders per day. Originally got Prime in the UK so we could watch the Outlander series. Seems a little silly to have to buy that to get access to a show filmed in scotland, about scotland, from scotland. Lol... Originally it was great because if you opted for no rush delivery, you got a £1 credit on your kindle account so it paid for itself easily as we read a lot of books. They dont do that anymore so it is mainly the shipping benefits for us now.
Since getting it, I have become really lazy and pretty much anything that is not food, I select from Amazon first in bulk. I tend not to order from pantry as the pay for a box thing is annoying.
On your orders page it tells you how many you have placed. My "in the past 6 months" count at time of writing is 192 - I am not proud of this. I joke above but this, I believe is going to be the next screen time problem in youngsters. It is just too easy to get your "ooh! new shiny thing!" fix when your credit card is ready to be bled dry in 3-5 clicks.
Since getting it, I have become really lazy and pretty much anything that is not food, I select from Amazon first in bulk. I tend not to order from pantry as the pay for a box thing is annoying.
On your orders page it tells you how many you have placed. My "in the past 6 months" count at time of writing is 192 - I am not proud of this. I joke above but this, I believe is going to be the next screen time problem in youngsters. It is just too easy to get your "ooh! new shiny thing!" fix when your credit card is ready to be bled dry in 3-5 clicks.
Wow, hahaha, that is a bunch
2018 we had 118
2019 we're at 73, but still a couple of months left, including December, i.e., Christmas
Last 6 months, a feeble 36
Wow, hahaha, that is a bunch
2018 we had 118
2019 we're at 73, but still a couple of months left, including December, i.e., Christmas
Last 6 months, a feeble 36
You should see my AliExpress account!
Oh. Well, as noted above, I get free shipping too. (not next day, of course) I rarely have an order of over $40.What I was saying was I'm able to move items out of my cart, without having to worry about the total cart value in the context of shipping. $500? Free, $10? Free.
My wife has an AliExpress account and holy smokes! I am amazed every time one of the small packages makes it over seas an in to our mailbox. Over course this happens almost daily!!!
My wife has an AliExpress account and holy smokes! I am amazed every time one of the small packages makes it over seas an in to our mailbox. Over course this happens almost daily!!!
She sounds like me. I went to a conference for a week over the summer. Every day my husband would send me photos of my chair slowly being engulfed by a mound of packages, with pleas to stop ordering, ?
HAHAHAHA... then you see the bill and I am like... hey that was only a quarter to ship and two bucks to buy. Ok... Then I see how many and I am like holy smokes!!!!
This is sort of v2.0 of that in the US. Fifteen years ago (give or take) the "big box" stores appeared and put many smaller local businesses out of business. Think Home Depot or Lowes vs. Main Street Hardware.
The odd thing, to me at least, is that now I tend to think of Home Depot (for example) as the local store. They're 10 minutes away - they employ a lot of local people - the staff can be quite helpful when questions arise - they pay local property taxes - etc. Amazon, for all its huge advantages, does none of these.
I'm sure we'll keep our Prime membership (we joined in 1997) and use it a lot, but I do pause now and think: can I get this at Home Depot for about the same price? Should I help make sure that my local Home Depot stays in business? It's a little surreal but I have started asking that question.
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I've found that some things that are hard to find locally can be gotten from Amazon Fresh. I've been extremely pleased with their service, which delivers in a two-hour window that I choose.
Screenshot dude ... talk is cheap, SHIFT+ALT+CMD+4 is the word of god ...
I’ve got a monkey on my back. ?
