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They're also pretty bad at rolling out their services to countries outside of the US. In Canada we've been told that we're getting Amazon's MP3 music store for
by tjl 10y ago
They're also pretty bad at rolling out their services to countries outside of the US. In Canada we've been told that we're getting Amazon's MP3 music store for years, but it still hasn't come, let alone any Amazon video. I'm actually somewhat surprised that we got Kindle books, although that was years after the US. You can forget things like the Echo at all.
Amazon Prime is just shipping in Canada. Where I live, I'd get shipments about a day sooner than free shipping so it's not worth it for me.
- frik 10y agoAmazon is also pretty bad with services in Europe. Amazon Germany is used to try out new services and was also the test region for Prime years before Amazon US got it. The Prime advertisement and nag screens are so annoying on Amazon Germany, so many now many use Amazon UK and US which have a far better user experience and things are cheaper as well. The packages come from the same warehouses anyway. And Amazon Germany's warehouse label now all packages with a Prime package. And the package come on the next day. (Due to introducing Prime as testing object in Germany many years ago, the delivered slowed down from 2-3 days to 4-6 days for any non-Prime member) Maybe it's the fault of their chaos. No wonder the Amazon Germany webshop is running on an years old software version, with good but long gone features like sorting items by lower prize or popularity, but otherwise rotten experience. It used to run on the 1999-ish version until 2006 or so, basically unchanged. The US version got several new relaunches back then. If an Amazon exec reads this, please do your A/B tests and product testing somewhere else and scrap the old forked codebase of Amazon Germany.