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I actually cancelled prime because Amazon products these days suck, it’s become literally flea market shit I probably would use Amazon cell phone service, but

I actually cancelled prime because Amazon products these days suck, it’s become literally flea market shit I probably would use Amazon cell phone service, but would be good if I could just buy that, not all of prime

vlovich123 3y ago
If they can take over my monthly phone bill that’s a huge gap. Prime is what $150? What almost 10x cheaper than my phone bill. Of course, the odds that it will offer an equivalent feature set is probably minimal so there will be a switching cost.
- Arubis 3y ago
  Your phone bill is approaching $1500 annually? What are your parameters? Unless that’s unlimited data lines for a family with lots of added devices, that’s a ton of money.
  - SkyPuncher 3y ago
    $1.5k is pretty much the going rate for two phones with unlimited and non-terrible tethering.
  - IggleSniggle 3y ago
    It’s really not that huge a jump. For a single phone line with tethering, ATT will run you $1200 annually. My budget provider with deprioritized service but on a similar plan is $540. A Prime membership covers a household, but anyway you measure it, $150 is close enough to “one order of magnitude less” to be useful as an approximation.
    - dhdhhdd 3y ago
      $240 Annum for 15GB mint mobile.
      - jdeibele 3y ago
        Plus another $24 or so in fees. I seem to remember there not being any fees the first time I signed up, which was over two years ago but they were there 18 months ago. I’m assuming they didn’t charge them at the start to make the price more attractive.
  - smaccona 3y ago
    AT&T 4 lines (2 adults 2 kids) x $40 each + taxes = ~$200 per month, $2400 per year. This is unlimited data, text, minutes - we used to have a data cap, but the worry about the kids exceeding it when out and about was not worth the savings. We could probably ditch the unlimited minutes for at least the kids lines. We also sometimes have an upgraded phone on the bill at 0% interest over 24 months - there is generally a pretty significant discount compared to the device vendor, with the downside that AT&T does lock the device to its network for those 24 months (unless you pay off the discount you got).
- dharmab 3y ago
  How is your phone bill $125 - month? I have usage based billing and it's between $25 and $80 depending on my usage.
  - welshwelsh 3y ago
    Prime is $150/yr
  - jmharvey 3y ago
    $100+ monthly phone bills often include the cost of the device, not just the service.
    - ericmay 3y ago
      Yea but in this case it's not a good comparison since Prime Mobile is presumably not including a phone too. But maybe it will.
  - ghaff 3y ago
    My AT&T bill is over $100/month. My dad's on the plan too but it's a good $100/month just for the service in any case.
    - lotsofpulp 3y ago
      I buy the most expensive retail ATT plan and it is $50 per line and it goes lower per line as you add lines. See “unlimited premium”: https://www.att.com/plans/wireless/ https://www.att.com/plans/wireless/ With signature program and multi line discount, I pay $40 per line excluding all taxes, and $45 per line including taxes for 4 lines. When I had 5 lines, it was $5 cheaper.
      - IggleSniggle 3y ago
        My experience with AT&T is that even though the cost may be listed as $45 per line for multi-line (and notably $75 for Signature single line), that after taxes and fees it comes out to $90 for a single line on signature. Came out to an additional $15 per line back when I was paying for multi line, too. These days I go with post-tax/fee calculated provider costs (in my case, Visible (Verizon) at $45 for deprioritized service). So I guess some qualifying customers like yourself can manage that… Maybe price discrimination, but only applies after fees?
qgin 3y ago
What good quality products aren’t you able to get on Amazon anymore that you used to?
- anon223345 3y ago
  The best example is my iPhone charging cords. It was $5, and didn’t work. It was so cheap that rather than the dog and pony show of doin g a return, I ordered another one from another vendor that also didn’t work I then ordered official apple one that worked And the HDMI splitter I bought sings to me And the baby toys, it’s almost comically bad grammar on the box, and the kids songs are Chinese accents My $100 battery charger, takes half a day to charge
yumraj 3y ago
> it’s become literally flea market shit the funny thing is that one of the reasons I keep my prime is because it's a flea market where I can find stuff that I have an extremely hard time finding locally or need to pay exorbitant shipping, for 5-7 days delivery, from others.
_yb2s 3y ago
What do you mean by "literally flea market shit"? The last 3 items I ordered were obviously dirty used items missing parts, thrown loose in boxes without the factory packaging, and no padding. Like you said, it seems they are selling things that were found in the garbage, or at thrift stores/garage sales as new items. At this point I am willing to pay 2x for an item I can trust from anyone but Amazon.
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vlovich123 3y ago

If they can take over my monthly phone bill that’s a huge gap. Prime is what $150? What almost 10x cheaper than my phone bill. Of course, the odds that it will offer an equivalent feature set is probably minimal so there will be a switching cost.

Arubis 3y ago
Your phone bill is approaching $1500 annually? What are your parameters? Unless that’s unlimited data lines for a family with lots of added devices, that’s a ton of money.
- SkyPuncher 3y ago
  $1.5k is pretty much the going rate for two phones with unlimited and non-terrible tethering.
- IggleSniggle 3y ago
  It’s really not that huge a jump. For a single phone line with tethering, ATT will run you $1200 annually. My budget provider with deprioritized service but on a similar plan is $540. A Prime membership covers a household, but anyway you measure it, $150 is close enough to “one order of magnitude less” to be useful as an approximation.
  - dhdhhdd 3y ago
    $240 Annum for 15GB mint mobile.
    - jdeibele 3y ago
      Plus another $24 or so in fees. I seem to remember there not being any fees the first time I signed up, which was over two years ago but they were there 18 months ago. I’m assuming they didn’t charge them at the start to make the price more attractive.
- smaccona 3y ago
  AT&T 4 lines (2 adults 2 kids) x $40 each + taxes = ~$200 per month, $2400 per year. This is unlimited data, text, minutes - we used to have a data cap, but the worry about the kids exceeding it when out and about was not worth the savings. We could probably ditch the unlimited minutes for at least the kids lines. We also sometimes have an upgraded phone on the bill at 0% interest over 24 months - there is generally a pretty significant discount compared to the device vendor, with the downside that AT&T does lock the device to its network for those 24 months (unless you pay off the discount you got).
dharmab 3y ago
How is your phone bill $125 - month? I have usage based billing and it's between $25 and $80 depending on my usage.
- welshwelsh 3y ago
  Prime is $150/yr
- jmharvey 3y ago
  $100+ monthly phone bills often include the cost of the device, not just the service.
  - ericmay 3y ago
    Yea but in this case it's not a good comparison since Prime Mobile is presumably not including a phone too. But maybe it will.
- ghaff 3y ago
  My AT&T bill is over $100/month. My dad's on the plan too but it's a good $100/month just for the service in any case.
  - lotsofpulp 3y ago
    I buy the most expensive retail ATT plan and it is $50 per line and it goes lower per line as you add lines. See “unlimited premium”: https://www.att.com/plans/wireless/ https://www.att.com/plans/wireless/ With signature program and multi line discount, I pay $40 per line excluding all taxes, and $45 per line including taxes for 4 lines. When I had 5 lines, it was $5 cheaper.
    - IggleSniggle 3y ago
      My experience with AT&T is that even though the cost may be listed as $45 per line for multi-line (and notably $75 for Signature single line), that after taxes and fees it comes out to $90 for a single line on signature. Came out to an additional $15 per line back when I was paying for multi line, too. These days I go with post-tax/fee calculated provider costs (in my case, Visible (Verizon) at $45 for deprioritized service). So I guess some qualifying customers like yourself can manage that… Maybe price discrimination, but only applies after fees?

qgin 3y ago

What good quality products aren’t you able to get on Amazon anymore that you used to?

anon223345 3y ago
The best example is my iPhone charging cords. It was $5, and didn’t work. It was so cheap that rather than the dog and pony show of doin g a return, I ordered another one from another vendor that also didn’t work I then ordered official apple one that worked And the HDMI splitter I bought sings to me And the baby toys, it’s almost comically bad grammar on the box, and the kids songs are Chinese accents My $100 battery charger, takes half a day to charge

yumraj 3y ago

> it’s become literally flea market shit the funny thing is that one of the reasons I keep my prime is because it's a flea market where I can find stuff that I have an extremely hard time finding locally or need to pay exorbitant shipping, for 5-7 days delivery, from others.

_yb2s 3y ago

What do you mean by "literally flea market shit"? The last 3 items I ordered were obviously dirty used items missing parts, thrown loose in boxes without the factory packaging, and no padding. Like you said, it seems they are selling things that were found in the garbage, or at thrift stores/garage sales as new items. At this point I am willing to pay 2x for an item I can trust from anyone but Amazon.

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