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Originally Posted by GeoffR
Amazon want me to join Prime for the same price as US customers, but they won't include free shipping to my address.
That just doesn't make sense to me. They should either reduce the membership cost to compensate for the features that are not available in my area, or charge me extra and include those features.
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Amazon doesn't need the money from Prime to make money if all it did include was shipping. The free shipping they could theoretically offer anybody, but they want the loyality. Okay, Amazon doesn't make as much money when a Prime member buys something, but a little less is still much better than a lost sale to somebody else.
Otherwise it doesn't make sense that a single big ticket item already pays for a whole year of Prime.