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We also just canceled our decade+ prime membership. It used to feel like a great deal, not anymore. $150 a year is just too much for what they offer when we d

We also just canceled our decade+ prime membership. It used to feel like a great deal, not anymore. $150 a year is just too much for what they offer when we didn't use the music or photos or very limited kindle offerings.

jart 3y ago
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- Brian_K_White 3y ago
  What are you doing here Elon?
- lostmsu 3y ago
  Maybe it has to do with despise for subscriptions for all the little things which add cognitive load, especially in the presence of bundling. It just evokes a natural "fuck you" reaction.
- hypothesis 3y ago
  Surely Jeff Bezos is filthy rich because he was giving away $3/month to anyone who asked, is that the logic here?
- Prickle 3y ago
  I am already paying them. If they decide to add advertisements after the fact, I am allowed to stop paying. After all, they are degrading the service.
- deleted 3y ago
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- data-ottawa 3y ago
  Is it any surprise that people are unhappy that a service they pay for is degraded so the provider can make more money, or they can pay more money for what they were already getting? If your salary were reduced unilaterally, would you accept that because you make enough? Obviously an anti-consumer move is going to upset consumers, even on a venture capital forum.
  - jart 3y ago
    It's a price increase, probably due to inflation, which Amazon is benevolently not imposing upon consumers, who like ads, or don't care about ads. I'll tell you what I am upset about though. Where's my one click buy button? That's an example of a degradation you couldn't pay your way out of. Amazon used to let me buy things with one click. Now it's three clicks. If I could pay to get that experience back, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But that's not even a choice I'm granted. The whole point of money is to give us choices. No point in raging against the system working as intended. If you truly cared, you'd be rallying support to bring one click back.
- seattle_spring 3y ago
  "Having enough money" and "thinking something is worth what it costs" are absolutely not the same thing. I'm sure many here could easily pay thousands for Amazon Prime; sure as shit doesn't make them "hobos" for not doing it though.
- dang 3y ago
  "Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN is a large international community with people from many walks of life, and the vast majority have no connection to venture capital or anything like it.

jart 3y ago

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Brian_K_White 3y ago
What are you doing here Elon?
lostmsu 3y ago
Maybe it has to do with despise for subscriptions for all the little things which add cognitive load, especially in the presence of bundling. It just evokes a natural "fuck you" reaction.
hypothesis 3y ago
Surely Jeff Bezos is filthy rich because he was giving away $3/month to anyone who asked, is that the logic here?
Prickle 3y ago
I am already paying them. If they decide to add advertisements after the fact, I am allowed to stop paying. After all, they are degrading the service.
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data-ottawa 3y ago
Is it any surprise that people are unhappy that a service they pay for is degraded so the provider can make more money, or they can pay more money for what they were already getting? If your salary were reduced unilaterally, would you accept that because you make enough? Obviously an anti-consumer move is going to upset consumers, even on a venture capital forum.
- jart 3y ago
  It's a price increase, probably due to inflation, which Amazon is benevolently not imposing upon consumers, who like ads, or don't care about ads. I'll tell you what I am upset about though. Where's my one click buy button? That's an example of a degradation you couldn't pay your way out of. Amazon used to let me buy things with one click. Now it's three clicks. If I could pay to get that experience back, I'd do it in a heartbeat. But that's not even a choice I'm granted. The whole point of money is to give us choices. No point in raging against the system working as intended. If you truly cared, you'd be rallying support to bring one click back.
seattle_spring 3y ago
"Having enough money" and "thinking something is worth what it costs" are absolutely not the same thing. I'm sure many here could easily pay thousands for Amazon Prime; sure as shit doesn't make them "hobos" for not doing it though.
dang 3y ago
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html HN is a large international community with people from many walks of life, and the vast majority have no connection to venture capital or anything like it.