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As a Amazon.com customer since the late nineties I don't get the "Prime" subscription model. I have a e-ink Kindle, I buy MP3s, electronics, many books there on
by frik 11y ago
As a Amazon.com customer since the late nineties I don't get the "Prime" subscription model. I have a e-ink Kindle, I buy MP3s, electronics, many books there on their Market Place and I use AWS.
But why should I care about "Prime"? Either Amazon cares about long term customers or not, but don't try to force me to Prime by showing full screen "Prime" advertisement (with a little "no thanks" link) at every purchase. I don't need same-day delivery, but I don't want worse delivery times than before Prime has been introduced (which happened).
- freehunter 11y agoI wonder what the cause of your slower shipping was. Another poster said he doesn't have Prime but his shipping speed is still Prime fast. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9619203 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9619203
- TillE 11y agoIt's all anecdotal, but before Prime was introduced in Germany, Amazon always shipped very quickly after placing an order. Total time until delivery was reliably 2-3 days. After, it was taking them days to process an order, so that time went up to about a week. I eventually gave in and signed up. Prime shipping isn't actually faster here, it's just what the old normal free shipping used to be.
- frik 11y agoI suspect it was the introduction of Prime as all my shipments take at least a day longer than before. (in western Europe) It took 1-2 days, now it takes usually 2-7 days. I also found no correlation to the reoccurring strike problems at Amazon warehouses in Germany.
- lsaferite 11y agoI would guess the slower shipping is a side-effect of shipping costs reduction at Amazon. I've seen them shift to using hybrid delivery services from FedEx+USPS in the US in many cases. I would assume the slower shipping and the introduction of Prime, while maybe marginally related, are mostly coincidental.