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Meh. Taking opportunity costs into account, a SINGLE visit to a local retail store that I can bill to a client instead more than covers the yearly expense. Add

Meh. Taking opportunity costs into account, a SINGLE visit to a local retail store that I can bill to a client instead more than covers the yearly expense. Add to that my experience with their customer service and returns (simply stellar[1]) and I would have gladly paid $149/yr which was hinted at previously. I've saved myself countless hours and shipping charges as a long-time prime member. Watched a whole season of The Americans and five streaming movies for free last week. I'd say I get more than my money's worth... [1] one more reason to avoid other online retailers or brick and mortars PS I never buy anything from third party sellers where Amazon doesn't handle the fulfillment. Too many scammers. Yes, I'm looking at you AntOnline on Amazon. Crooks.

hga 13y ago
"I never buy anything from third party sellers where Amazon doesn't handle the fulfillment." I've found that Amazon's fulfillment of Marketplace books is seriously subpar, they don't pack them like they pack their own books. By and large I now avoid this one use of Amazon fulfillment---although I made these observations before getting a Prime subscription. On the other hand, I've found that a 96% or higher satisfaction rating is very strongly correlated with successful third party experience, assuming of course it's based on enough time and transactions (modulo some merchants don't put any padding in their book envelopes and sometimes they get a little damaged). Anything below that is a real gamble. After some effort, finally trying a packaged version of Windows---a class of things I'd never get except straight from Amazon.com---your hated AntOnline has only a 92% rate.