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Canadians will soon see commercials on Amazon Prime Video (globalnews.ca)
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[–] foo@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

In the Prime app, you can see how much you've saved with Prime over the last year... Looks like it will be cheaper for me to just cancel outright.

[–] foo@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago

Oh.

I misinterpreted this, thinking it was showing me savings on shipping and such.

Instead, I think it's referring specifically to savings on purchases that were Prime Exclusive Deals or maybe Prime Early Access.

Apologies for the wild goose chase.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Adam Conover did a great video about "Free shipping" is a scam and actually ends up costing you more overall. Ultimately the companies are using the same logistics companies you could with no special discounts, and in order to make a profit pocket the excess. Which isn't as bad as the alternative what is happened with insurance where the cost of everything ballooned to obscene extents even if you had a plan, then once they were too big to fail insurance companies just stopped paying out leaving you in a smoldering crater of the full hyperinflated price.

[–] Patches@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

But just because you can see a "price" for shipping. That doesn't mean that's what it actually costs the company.

It is literally my job to write the code that queries the carrier (UPS/FedRx/Speedy/Etc) and generates a label and receipt. 99% of our clients fudge the "cost" that the end customer can see. The end customer thinks it cost $20 to ship their package but the API returned $6 from UPS.

We also offer rating so that their website can "calculate" a rate of $20 externally and $6 behind the scenes.

I mean ultimately someone is paying the shipping but I don't see how it's bad, or good.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where do you find this in the app? I found a tally for what prime services I’d used, but no savings total yet….

[–] foo@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

In the app open your profile (1) and then your account (2):

Then scroll down to Account Settings to (3) Manage Prime Membership:

And scroll down to (4) Your Prime deals and discount savings:

This is what it looks like for me:

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Interesting; I don’t have that last bit; just a list of how many of each service I’ve used, which you don’t seem to have.

[–] foo@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I see those too if I scroll down further. I'm using this version on Pixel 5 with Android 14.

Amazon App Version 26.23.4.100 Build 18.0.336079.0

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I’m using the iOS version. Shouldn’t be a difference as it’s only a webpage, so it’s likely an account difference of some sort.

[–] bravemonkey@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe they only show the ‘savings’ when there’s data to show. I don’t see that either. Time for me to cancel too

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Interesting! I can't find that on the mobile site, maybe I'll find it in the desktop version....