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eh, Amazon Prime actually made me vow to never use Amazon again.
I had a free trial of the Prime. It was great. Wonderful. But, it's a marketing tool: they're trying to get us to spend more on books. And I and several of my friends who had trials at the same time did that ... so I cancelled it at the end of the year, as did several of my friends. My trial expired about a year ago. Since the expiry, either Amazon super saver shipping has become a lot, lot worse than I remember, or they're not shipping stuff well.
My last order took several weeks to arrive, not the 508 business days. Amazon's response when I asked where my stuff was (it took ages after it said "delivered" for it to actually be delivered) -- "You should have paid more for shipping." Sorry, but if you say 5-8 days, I assume it will be here in a couple weeks, max. Not in 5 weeks.
This last go-round, which resulted in them issuing a credit, and involved my credit card company getting involved, saw that one package was marked 'delivered' over a week before I received it.
Minimum time post-Prime to get a package was 3.5 weeks. And no, I don't live in the back of nowhere.
Meanwhile, my neighbor who never had a Prime membership trial isn't noticing anything being slower ... her packages come in about a week.
We've started tracking how much time it takes folks without Prime to get their packages around my department ... and we're noticing those of us who gave up Prime it's taking unconscionably long periods of time. Just a warning to people who might try it and then let it drop.
So yeah, now I'll spend the extra couple bob to have packages arrive in a timely fashion and source them from other places. I just can't trust Amazon any more. Which is sad, since they used to be so good.
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