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Also in Australia, agreed about Amazon being a deeply scammy-feeling website. The only reason I'm subscribed is because I love Wheel of Time that much and I'll
by lucubratory 3y ago
Also in Australia, agreed about Amazon being a deeply scammy-feeling website. The only reason I'm subscribed is because I love Wheel of Time that much and I'll be damned if I'm going to wait a minute to watch it when it premieres (very convenient time for me in Australia, 10am). Then I figured well, if I've got a Prime account, I might as well check and make sure something I'm going to buy isn't on Amazon with free shipping for a lower price, and it turns out that happens very regularly. I see the value now, although it's probably not worth what I pay for it as the savings are small. But it's well worth it for me because of Amazon Prime Video, particularly Wheel of Time.
It's actually funny, ever since Wheel of Time released and we got Prime to watch it, it's not just that we started buying from Amazon instead of individual stores, but we've actually bought a bunch more stuff over the internet than we would have before anyway. Stuff like air blowers for cleaning out electronics, verifiably safe toys for the cats, spring-loaded arms to hold phones up, a Kindle to read ebooks. The Kindle is the other thing I'll give credit to Amazon for being just very good and very good value like their streaming service, the Kindle is a very good device. Annoying DRM on my books, sure, but I've got them backed up for when it gets cracked.