thought I’d sign up for free 30 days, to see what all the fuss is about. not all that really, is it.
Amazon video is pretty shit. way, way inferior to the superb Netflix. everything about is is amateurish and poor and the selection of stuff to watch is frankly pathetic. I’m also finding it hard to just dip back into a particular episode or whatever. just chucks me anywhere it fancies.
prime delivery ain’t much better. ordered something yesterday…and only just got my delivery slot. 10.08-11.08AM. basically, an hour or so’s notice. not cool. I had stuff to do between 10.08-11.08AM
100% will not be carrying on after the 30. fuck that
My membership is just coming up for renewal next month.
There’s quite a lot of decent stuff on the streaming service (been working through The Americans) but the UI is awful and unintuitive.
Definitely end up buying much more than I need. Prime Now has been really useful in the past when I’ve needed things desperately - had an iron delivered at 7am etc.
I use it for the delivery mainly. In fact have a five item delivery coming through today (payday).
What I hate are non-Prime items. Fuck you guys!
Also good to get a few Prime exclusives. I managed to get a Le Creuset casserole dish for £75 the other day!
Did watch Preacher on it though (which was great) and had no issues whatsoever. Was on a rewatch of Freaks and Geeks a while back and they pulled it mid watch, couldn’t be fucked to find a DVD player in the loft so just torrented it, isn’t it?
I have the student version on account of having an .ac.uk email address for work. Makes it half price but I think I get all the benefits. Me and my housemates usually buy a lot through Amazon so if they want something I’ll make the order and they’ll give me the money + a pint once in a while.
I think it’s really great but I don’t think I’d bother with it if I had to pay the full price/lived on my tod.
I needed my niece’s birthday present delivered quickly last week. Amazon offered me a free trial of prime, so I did that and then they delivered the present for free and then I cancelled the prime subscription and that’s my story.
Would use a free trial of prime to get something delivered quickly for free again!
We use it, fairly handy for deliveries, there are at least as many films on it that I want to watch as Netflix (about three a piece). Doesn’t work well with Chromecasting though, presumably because they want to nudge you to use their own version.
You can share some of your Prime privileges with people in your household. My wife uses mine on her account (fucking freeloader). Maybe you can’t do it on the student one.
The next day delivery is the only good thing about it. Had it for a year but it wasn’t really worth it. I work in the centre of town so if I need something that urgently, I can nip out at lunch and grab it.
