Comment by bbarnett

Comment by bbarnett 3 days ago

With Amazon as an example for CxOs of the world, sadly, this likely won't happen.

Look at Prime. So much crap involved, and quite literally all I use it for is lower cost shipping. It's almost on the edge of not worth it for me. But I bet from Amazon's perspective, they make more with the higher price, even if they lose the bottom 10% not willing to spend.

Huh.

Just made me realise, a startup that subscribes to Prime as a virtual being, and then splits off each sub-thing for full use by separate individuals would be incredibly profitable.

If any form of AI is eventually granted legal personhood, Prime's model will collapse.

add-sub-mul-div 3 days ago

I've never had Prime and I get free shipping 100% of the time.

You're not paying for lower cost shipping, you're paying to turn regular purchases you could wait a few extra days for into impulse buys.

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bombcar 3 days ago

Exactly this, and since Covid the 2-day has been about as fast as the “free with $35” option, and waiting encourages thrift anyway.
I only reactivate it when they give me a week free or for $1 and the additional cash back is worth it.

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spaceguillotine 3 days ago

i cancelled prime over a year ago and i still get packages in the same time frame, i think once they nixed a lot of next day deliveries that it didnt matter anymore.
The downside is quality of products still keeps going downhill and not even mcmaster had the parts i needed.

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makeitdouble 3 days ago

I was on Prime for years until it lapsed because of a card change, and I realized most of my shipping would still be free:

- my orders are usually above the generic free shipping threshold

- most smaller item purchases can be grouped within two or three days to get above the threshold

- if it's an emergency shipping price won't matter. But I'll also freely choose what service and what retailer to get it from, if a shop is fasteror more reliable than Amazon for instance.

- Prime day sales aren't great

Might not apply for your case, but for me getting off of Prime had virtually no impact for the shop part (I was using Prime Video, and Music with Alexa, but I also got rid of both for different reasons)

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rr808 3 days ago

Also every few months I get offered Prime trial free month. Wife too so family wise we get a few months free every year which is more than enough.

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jcrawfordor 2 days ago

I'm sure this depends on where you live, but my Amazon shipments are late such a large portion of the time that they end up refunding most of the shipping costs I pay. It's like free prime for the patient!

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navane 3 days ago

Loosing the people that actually care about the price/reward is a bonus for them, now they have an audience that buys superfluous stuff.

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