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I'd rather have them be forced to let me cancel Prime Video and discount my Prime membership by $8.99/month. If they are going to make Prime Video unusable to m

I'd rather have them be forced to let me cancel Prime Video and discount my Prime membership by $8.99/month. If they are going to make Prime Video unusable to me by injecting ads, then I don't want to pay for it at all, but I do still want the other Prime benefits.

maxwell 3y ago
Seems like whole premise of Prime, and most Apple products for that matter, is to capitalize on the failure to enforce product tying that's illegal under both Sherman and Clayton.
- blagie 3y ago
  ... I thought the original premise of Prime was to take goods and services which, under basic economic theory, are more efficient centrally-funded by taxes, and provide those via a private entity. Especially things with zero marginal cost, like movies, music, and TV, should not be sold per-unit, but should be available to everyone and funded by taxes. Prime looked like a private equivalent to that. If we all pay $3.5B per month (350M people times $10/month), that's enough to give us all the college textbooks, movies, software, and music we might want to use, as well as paying for a lot of transportation infrastructure for rapid shipping. It seemed like a good model while Amazon was doing that. Now it looks more like what you said. Prime looks a lot more antitrusty in the model it's evolving to. I cancelled Prime about six months back, and Amazon is just obnoxious. There are ads on content I paid for. I can't check out without five annoying alerts. All those Prime deals look a lot less like deals and more like ways to bump up pricing for people who don't opt in. All in all, once I cancelled Amazon, it basically imploded on me, and now I only use it if there are seriously no other options. That also pushes me away from any vendors who standardized on Amazon for logistics. All of a sudden, I realized non-Prime members just won't buy from you if you use Amazon for logistics. It didn't used to be like that. Pre-Prime Amazon worked fine.
chung8123 3y ago
Prime never had video to begin with so I doubt they would discount it for you.

maxwell 3y ago

Seems like whole premise of Prime, and most Apple products for that matter, is to capitalize on the failure to enforce product tying that's illegal under both Sherman and Clayton.

blagie 3y ago
... I thought the original premise of Prime was to take goods and services which, under basic economic theory, are more efficient centrally-funded by taxes, and provide those via a private entity. Especially things with zero marginal cost, like movies, music, and TV, should not be sold per-unit, but should be available to everyone and funded by taxes. Prime looked like a private equivalent to that. If we all pay $3.5B per month (350M people times $10/month), that's enough to give us all the college textbooks, movies, software, and music we might want to use, as well as paying for a lot of transportation infrastructure for rapid shipping. It seemed like a good model while Amazon was doing that. Now it looks more like what you said. Prime looks a lot more antitrusty in the model it's evolving to. I cancelled Prime about six months back, and Amazon is just obnoxious. There are ads on content I paid for. I can't check out without five annoying alerts. All those Prime deals look a lot less like deals and more like ways to bump up pricing for people who don't opt in. All in all, once I cancelled Amazon, it basically imploded on me, and now I only use it if there are seriously no other options. That also pushes me away from any vendors who standardized on Amazon for logistics. All of a sudden, I realized non-Prime members just won't buy from you if you use Amazon for logistics. It didn't used to be like that. Pre-Prime Amazon worked fine.

chung8123 3y ago

Prime never had video to begin with so I doubt they would discount it for you.