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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
My opinion, for what it's worth . . . .
I signed up for Prime for the first time a few months ago. I wasn't sure that I would use it enough or save enough money with it to make it worth my while. I put pencil to paper (actually fingers to calculator buttons), however, and saw that the cost per month was only $8.25 (the downside--I had to pay for a year, in advance). The free 2-day (business day) shipping was the thing that sealed the deal.
Personally, I have liked and much used the 2-day free shipping. The $35 minimum for free shipping was not cost-effective, and was a hassle and aggravation, for me. I was buying stuff that I really didn't need in order to get the free shipping. It was aggravating to have to plan so far ahead to order certain items (mainly disposables/consumables)--Amazon's free shipping could be really slow (one reason was that sometimes they had the order for several days before shipping--they don't dare do that when they have to deliver in 2 days!). Because of the free shipping, though, I am buying much more from Amazon than I did before, but that's okay because they are things that I would have bought somewhere anyway and Amazon's prices are usually competitive.
To me, the other benefits are almost useless. The only two that I feel are even worth mentioning are Prime music and Prime video, and neither one of them have a lot of the more recent and/or popular music/movies. I do like documentaries and, having looked over what they've got, I see some possibilities there, though.
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We got Prime for the movies.
We noticed it was cheaper than the premium movie channels.