[version_five]

Amazon is king of dark patterns so there may be some more aggressive trick they've used to get you to technically "agree" to the renewal? It seems an obvious endgame for prime that they'd make it impossible to cancel. It's lost all its value, so the only way for whoever's in charge to keep their numbers up is to use progressively more trickery. It's funny because 6 or 7 years ago I voluntarily paid for it and considered it a great value.

[PaulHoule]

I subscribed to Prime as soon as it came out and enjoyed it for a long time but I let my subscription lapse for two major reasons: (i) bogus product listings, and (ii) Prime deliveries going from 2 days to 5 at my location.

In the last few years every other retailer has sped up, somehow I get free shipping for Ebay items from Japan faster than AMZN chooses to send me things from a warehouse about four hours away. Personally it is a violation of my self-respect to be paying for a ‘premium’ service that is worse than what I get from every other retailer without a paid subscription.

Maybe I will be an early adopter for quitting prime. I am definitely thinking of switching my Pillpack and also my AWS to Azure.

[marymkearney]

Yup me too. Just cancelled it (and it took). Back in 2005 Prime was a great deal at $79. It was like Aladdin's magic lamp. Formulate a desire, click a button, poof! The thing appeared the next day.

Started buying on Amazon in 1996-ish, back when they didn't require email verification, with the email [e-mail]. (Which I didn't own.) So my "account history" with a verified email only goes back to 1999 or so.

Now? What a pile of crap, literally, and it takes 5 days? No thanks.

Whatever metric they're optimizing for in 2023, it ain't the customers.