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At least we can switch every month with relative ease, unlike when you had to deal with real cable packages.
by cinntaile 4y ago
At least we can switch every month with relative ease, unlike when you had to deal with real cable packages.
- teddyh 4y agoI’d bet that it was easy to switch cable packages when those were a new concept.
- cinntaile 4y agoI doubt that, monthly subscriptions would have been a major hassle back in the day. Requiring a lot of administration.
- FPGAhacker 4y agoDefinitely not. Switching required a specialist to come out and change hardware.
- nicce 4y agoHave you tried to unsubscribe Amazon Prime?
- KingOfCoders 4y agoI unsubscribed with relative ease. The difficulty is finding the one - ever chanhing - link during checkout that doesn't resubscribe you. Resubscribe links are plastered all over the place, some of them deceptive.
- hn_throwaway_99 4y ago1. Google "Amazon Prime Unsubscribe". 2. First result opens the Amazon App on my phone with a big button that says "End Membership". Why do you think this is hard?
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoBecause if you tried doing it, you'd discover it makes you go through four confirmation screens, and on each one the correct button is in a different spot and a different color, and if you screw up on any one of them you remain subscribed.
- thayne 4y agoStill a whole lot easier than ending your comcast subscription, where you have to talk to someone on the phone, who will spend a consuderable amount of effort trying to get you to upgrade instead of cancel.
- smegsicle 4y agoyour workflow for finding links in amazon's user settings is to use google?
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoYes, my workflow to find settings in tons of apps is to use Google. I could hunt for the right checkbox, or just as easily ask the question and get a directed answer immediately. I don't see anything wrong with this either. I mean, tons of times when I need to do something specific in my car, for example, I just google it and get a detailed YouTube video explaining it. Better than hunting in a manual.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoThey asked me two or three times to confirm, but it wasn't difficult.
- cinntaile 4y agoI have had Amazons video streaming service and unsubscribing was no problem, this is not their Prime service though. I don't think I had to jump through any hoops either because that would have left a negative impression on me and then I would never use it again, now I will just resubscribe when I find something I want to watch.
- tenebrisalietum 4y agoWhat cable does is force you to buy basic cable, plus a bunch of regulatory recovery and other fees, to get cable's real equivalent to streaming services which were the pay movie channels. I'd rather pay $80/mo. for Internet, then jump in an out of STARZ and other services for $10/mo. instead of paying $80/mo. for Internet, $100/mo. for TV+basic cable (which I don't watch and TV is free OTA), and then the movie channels on top of it. Plus the streaming services work on my phone which is pretty neat when I'm stuck somewhere.
- derefr 4y ago> Plus the streaming services work on my phone which is pretty neat when I'm stuck somewhere. FYI, that’s true of most cable networks now as well. They’ve all developed apps that are hybrids of (legitimized) IPTV streaming of their live broadcast of the channels available in your package, plus VOD catalogues of seemingly-random seasons of shows (i.e. the ones they happen to currently have licensed for syndication at any given time.)