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When it came to shopping I used to blindly trust Amazon. Wouldn’t even check prices anywhere else. Now, it’s always the choice of last resort. I really don’t l

• avitous 4y ago
  I used to trust them a whole lot more, too. But of late it seems Amazon is leaning toward a cesspool of price gouging, and I've noticed a lot more of the presented results are "Sponsored". Along with that, I stream movies on my TV, running clients, usually Netflix or Prime Video, on my xbox. Increasingly the Amazon prime video client wants to present me with options to "Rent or Buy" instead of free offerings (I am a Prime subscriber after all, and seek to take advantage of the free streaming offerings), sometimes a page of results will contain nothing but pay-to-play offers.
  • fmajid 4y ago
    The iPad or browser version offer a "free to me" option. Unfortunately they also count their ad-infested service as "free to me". In my experience Amazon has the best streaming service now. There's nothing on Netflix I want to see and I'd have cancelled the service a long time ago if it were not for my wife and 10 year old daughter.
• silisili 4y ago
  Came to say this. Some locations must still have it good, but where I live in the US, delivery dates are 7 to 8 days. Almost every retailer is way faster than Amazon.