It baffles me how many people buy from Amazon here in Germany. It's just bad: high prices, horrible search, mediocre shipping times, retarded logistics and that's before you get into ethics arguments.
I only buy from them when it looks like they're losing money
Last time I bought from them they had a promo that at best (for them) meant they broke even. However since they also ship every other item separately they certainly lost money due to multiple shipping fees on an order with free shipping.
Prime is a fucking scam, they run you through several obfuscatory pages to try and prevent you from cancelling it, or trick you into thinking you cancelled it when you didn't.
Worse, even if you did cancel it, they will soon offer you a free month of Prime the next time you buy something, just to hook you back on the subscription in hopes that you'll forget to cancel it again.
It embarasses me to say it, but they've pretty much stolen $100 from me over the years by doing this shit.
It took me a while to notice that most of their inventory is shitty Chinese knockoffs. They let these IP-violators step all over small American inventors and undercut them out of business.
I haven't bought anything from Amazon since the beginning of the pandemic, and then it was just hair clippers and a new mouse.
It baffles me how many people buy from Amazon here in Germany. It's just bad: high prices, horrible search, mediocre shipping times, retarded logistics and that's before you get into ethics arguments.
Last time I bought from them they had a promo that at best (for them) meant they broke even. However since they also ship every other item separately they certainly lost money due to multiple shipping fees on an order with free shipping.
I only buy from them as a last resort.
Prime is a fucking scam, they run you through several obfuscatory pages to try and prevent you from cancelling it, or trick you into thinking you cancelled it when you didn't.
Worse, even if you did cancel it, they will soon offer you a free month of Prime the next time you buy something, just to hook you back on the subscription in hopes that you'll forget to cancel it again.
It embarasses me to say it, but they've pretty much stolen $100 from me over the years by doing this shit.
You can actually cancel before your trial ends and not lose any of your free time.
I didn't have a problem at all cancelling- saved some money and watched all of Tick & High Castle season 1.
It took me a while to notice that most of their inventory is shitty Chinese knockoffs. They let these IP-violators step all over small American inventors and undercut them out of business.
Already did a couple of month ago.