prime scam

One thing confuses me about Amazon Prime. If we're paying out £8 per month for a better deal, next day delivery and free postage, why do all the prices for Amazon Prime seem to be the cost of postage above the price for the non Amazon Prime options?

It has certainly become so, especially on the part of those who are complaining about your posts.

do you really need to ask?

Because you are also paying for amazon music, amazon photos, amazon video and other stuff that you may not want.

They appear to have stopped the get a £1 if you don't want prime delivery ATM, last year I got £140 from that and I don't buy stuff that unless its not cheaper than elsewhere.

I don't even pay for my prime as my daughter pays it to get the music and videos and I am just a family member.

That?s bullshit, they arent. I did sign up for the free trial because that avoided the postage cost and set a reminder to cancel before the free trial expired. Worked fine.

Never installed insulation or a low energy light bulb?

More fool you.

For one.

Or bought a car to save public transport fees, or bought a house to save rent?

Or bought a new model because the old model was beyond economic repair?

Howver in the case of amazon prime, if it saved you money why on earth would they offer it to you?

I came across a hint recently that a smaller but reliable income may be better than the peaks and troughs of market forces but, on reflection, doubt that includes Amazon:-)

So the "never" bit was actually an economy with the truth then.

I am sure they are plenty of other cases where you probably do pay something to get a discount later (e.g.paying for a flat rate call package to get unmetered calls etc).

The irony is that its not even a good metaphor for prime since part of it a subscription to a streaming service anyway.

Because they prefer a system where they get a fixed amount of money per month with less likelihood that you will buy from the cheapest you can find with every purchase.

I use o2 ....3 2 1 paygo ......so they don't get a steady income stream from me that you feel you must use up every month to get good value.....

Jim has a suspicious amount of supposed trouble with EBay, driving (women drivers), various delivery companies, and now it seems Amazon. He has been flooding another group with his attention seeking whining for years. Now he is flooding this one.

The best approach is just to totally ignore him. Eventually he will crawl back under his stone.

Where I'm visiting soon the local (rural) supermarket always has

I have been signed up for free 30 day prime trial without knowingly doing it. I cancelled soon after finding out and before the first subscription payment.

I believe there may be cases where you don't get the option during the latter stages payment/delivery to opt out because the goods on offer were ONLY available (or available at that price) to prime customers but you didn't have to be an existing prime subscriber to buy them.

Don't forget that they also have the £5+ delivery button.

I note on Ebay that a lot of sellers offer weird delivery options where the free postage delivery time is shorter that the paid for delivery.

We use Tesco Club Card points to get discount on Euro Tunnel. The points convert to vouchers (in money) which are worth 3x as much if you use them on Eurotunnel. We've just saved about £200 on a crossing. In the past we've bought two Kindles, camera lenses, ..... all when Tesco used to have 'double up' offers on vouchers for goods. Now they don't do it on goods.

We also get a steady stream of vouchers from M&S (I have their credit card). Needless to say, I never pay interest!

Nectar Points off Ebay mount up and convert to cash vouchers. Ditto the odd time we shop in Sainsburys.

Waitrose card gives discount at the till.

We even have cards for various French supermarkets which we use on holiday. They all seem to work in different ways, some give discount on certain items, others give vouchers etc.

All 'money for nothing', we'd shop there away.

Brian Gaff is a nice bloke, about as far removed from Stephen Thomas Cole as it is possible to get - I'm sure BG was just making a joke here.