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Daily Discussion Thread: 👻 Thursday, June 20, 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 4 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Just cancelled my prime membership. In truth, I haven't been buying enough from Amazon to justify it, but it isn't something I think about all that often.

Then they emailed me last week saying "hey, we'll be introducing ads to Prime on July 1st"

Yeah, nah. I can't justify that. What surprised me though is that it was moderately easy to cancel. I thought cancelling was needlessly complicated and they just got in trouble about that.

[–] Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Cancelled mine immediately after they asked me to pay like $25 to view the movie I signed up to prime to watch

[–] melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so I buy quite a few things through prime (when I can't buy them locally - am subsidising elderly dad's retirement hobby): I have not received a price increase notification...

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

That's a good point. They didn't word it like that.

We are writing to you today about an upcoming change to your Prime Video experience. Starting July 2, Prime Video movies and TV shows will include limited advertisements.

But also:

We will also offer a new ad free option for an additional A$2.99 per month* that you can sign up for here.

I think I still would have cancelled had they said 'we are increasing the price by $3, but you can stay at the current price and get ads'. But I believe that's how Netflix would have worded it.