[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.