It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription

The idea that people think it would be difficult to live without an Amazon Prime subscription absolutely blows my mind. Are y'all really that hooked on buying stupid shit and getting it as fast as possible?

It is surprisingly easy to not order things off of Amazon, too.

I stopped Amazon Prime because it when from being "your package will be at your house in two days" to "your package might leave our facility in two days and arrive to you some indeterminate time later."

I also feel like anytime I get on Amazon now, I might as well be on Alibaba, but it's 10x the price. It's hard to find good things because there are so many cheap factory direct products with smashed-my-face-against-the-keyboard brand names. There's a Jansport backpack for sale, but you have to sort through all the bags from JDOEBG, AHIXBX, and PRJAGG first.

Since they added commercials to prime video we have been considering dropping prime. Video was really the only thing keeping us lately.

OMG YES. I canceled my subscription 2-3 years ago and I've never once thought about resubscribing!!! Highly recommend. 99% of the time I still get free shipping because I exceed the $30 threshold. If I don't, then I'll just add an item to the cart and wait until I need something else. If it's something urgent, then I do pay for the shipping, but it's still way cheaper than $139 per year. Bro, it's fine.

I don't care about Prime Video or Music, so for me it 1000000% made sense to cancel.

I hate that Amazon tries to trick me into signing up for Prime on every purchase, but that just pisses me off even more and makes it less likely for me to consider signing up.

Killed my Amazon account last decade. Shitty company that mistreats workers, sells crap.

Every dollar they get does damage.

Dumped prime years ago and never missed it. Here’s a secret: they will keep offering you 30 day free trials. I think I’ve had it five times now since I stopped paying.

Amazon prime forcing ads was my final straw.

Before that, two day shipping became six day shipping became two month shipping became fuck you it's lost forever shipping while the US patent office slowly burnt to the ground via the tens of thousands of gibberish brand names sellers were using to pedal their counterfeit child slave labor fell off a truck shitty fall apart in one day products.

Lack of Amazon has done wonders for preventing me from impulse purchases as well. Win/win.

I thought I cancelled 2 months ago and I was billed this week. I went through the same steps and when I got to a page that said something like “confirm cancel” I hit it again.

The top of the page said “you have 364 days left to enjoy prime benefits”

This time I scrolled down and there was another box to click. A second confirmation. Such bs

Is this satire?

Now granted, I don't live in America, but I have never even considered using Amazon, and I don't understand why anyone would..

Yeah but those fuckers stay trying to trick you back into it.

Duh?

I dropped it months ago. Only had it for 2 shows and you can get free shipping if you look elsewhere. Plus got tired of being ripped off with fake clothes and junk. The time for Amazon has passed.

I have my amazon account since 2005 and i've been fine without prime ever since.

Guess I just never really bought something thats so critical to have asap ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Canned mine the day they announced ads in Prime Video.

They'd already ruined the music service earlier in the year.

And in other news: the sea is wet and the sky is blue.

Living without amazon prime is easy; living without amazon at all is more challenging with various manufacturers using amazon as their only storefront

Is no one else using Prime for unlimited, uncompressed photo storage? I feel like it's a big thing and I'm not even a photographer. It's basically the same as Google had before they have decided to get rid of that feature on the free 15GB accounts.

I've been doing it my whole life

I bought a car stereo last Friday with Prime. It said next day delivery by 11am. At 11am I check and it says it'll be here this coming Friday.... I cancelled it because crap like this keeps happening. (about 75% of my orders) I live within two miles of a giant distribution center. I looked at other places for the same radio and Walmart had it (not a fan of them either but same price, same day shipping for free) so I ordered it. It was at my door four hours later.

I'm done with Amazon.

The last straw for me was that Amazon drivers always seem to have some kind of problem finding my apartment. So even though instructions say "leave at my door," it always ends up in Parcel Pending on the other side of my complex.

NOBODY ELSE has an issue finding my apartment: UPS, USPS, Uber Eats, even fucking Door Dash! But I might as well be living in the Bermuda Triangle to Amazon, so WTF was I paying for Prime for?

And honestly, like so many others, I've found it not even the least bit tempting to go back. Ebay has been a reliable alternative.

After canceling Prime, I’ve been able to reevaluate the necessity of that ultra-fast, always-free shipping and have found it mostly unneeded. Amazon still ships free when your cart is above $35, albeit a few days slower. After leaving Prime, I’ve been happy to wait. The products still arrive relatively fast, and the selection is still excellent. I’m also less inclined to make impulse purchases. If the tech giants can have their years of cost-efficiency, I guess I can too.

I've never had one, other than their free trials. Only then it was to make use of the next day delivery.

Yeah I cancelled my Prime that I had for about 7 years a few months ago and... Its fine. Better maybe cause I don't buy something stupid online I didn't need. I try to find stuff locally first and free shipping makes me able to just buy something if I need to but haven't found anything I NEED to buy from them.

I missed Prime Video but honestly with ads I can also just use Tubi and it's the same jank cheap movie experience without supporting Bezos.

I do think it's funny that I know some people who did the whole prime day this year and complained they bought garbage and that the prces were the same when they had to return the items and buy a new one but also the waste still hurts me

I mostly buy on ebay now and sometimes the main store. If I have no resort but to use amazon then I use someone else's account but that hasn't had to happen yet in a while (wanted to get the new pixel 8a and amazon had a promotion with a free $100 gift card)

I've never had one nor would I even consider it.

I’ve been doing it since December. Agreed

I only really use it for the prime gaming free games :').

I really need to cancel my membership. Most things I really want can be bought on Ebay open-box for cheaper. Any daily essentials I just go to Sam's Club or Aldi.

Ignoring the other benefits to prime outside of shipping, this is a major caveat:

"Amazon still ships free when your cart is above $35, albeit a few days slower. "

Most people are fine with slower, but if you're forced to make your order $35 to get free shipping, you're likely buying stuff you don't want/need just to get to that amount.

Just to save like $10 a month?

I don't think you save money by cancelling, unless you actually don't buy stuff from Amazon to begin with.

For me, having Prime is still worth it. Several grocery items are still cheaper from Amazon, and ordering for same/next day means I don't have to waste time/money/energy going to a store to get that same item.

But that doesn't mean I won't cancel the moment Prime stops being a good value.

the third party delivery companies using Amazon painted trucks is a new form of racketeering for organized crime.