AIBU to have cancelled my Amazon Prime

Oh ffs…

So blame the government not Amazon

I would write to your MP as you are obviously not happy about it.

No as I am in Scotland and the gov is a waste of space.

No, I expect users to know they aren’t paying tax here so they can make a judgement as to whether to use them or not. Whiich is why I posted above.

Have you written to your MP complaining about this, I bet not.

That is entirely down to the government and councils who do not make it easy for shops on the High Street to thrive and let other companies pay less tax. Amazon are paying the taxes that they have to, do you expect them to make a donation.

I don’t think any’large ‘ uk companies compare with Amazon
From one google search Amazon made $553 billion in 2023 😂

Maybe rather than posting on here people should write to their MP instead if they are not happy with the taxes being paid, maybe they could also mention large UK companies that have minimum wage employees subsidised by benefits at the same time.

Yes not saying it isn’t for the Gov but no one on this thread mentioned the no Paying of tax in fact it is praised for being a big employer !!!!!
How many people do they think were employed by all the high street shops in every town before Amazon came along - no comparison.
We are paying a huge US trillion dollar business - that means the money leaves the U.K. for the US and isn’t going towards the running of the U.K.

That is for the government to sort out, they set the taxes we all pay and Amazon pay the taxes that they have to. Do you pay extra tax that the government hasn't told you to

Prime is good value and reliable, costs similar to a supermarket pass and you get the streaming service thrown in as well, but obviously if you don't want to use it just buy your stuff from elsewhere. I sometimes use eBay for the odd thing but I do prefer to know which day delivery is and with a lot of online stores it is a bit of an unknown.

Amazon pays almost no tax in the U.K. -they are based in Ireland.
we used to go to shops, they paid tax on their premises, tax on their profits - thanks partly to companies like Amazon we can’t afford to run the nhs,schools.
Hope you all enjoy their great service !!

Do whatever you want. I’m going to use one of the few places that consistently allows me to access medically necessary supplies with any semblance of affordability.

No.

Good news is you can rejoin Amazon Prime.

These virtue signalling posts are hilarious.

It’s one thing to cancel a service/stop consuming a product because of your feeling against whatever you like. It’s quite another to start a thread asking if you’re unreasonable to do so with no explanation why until you were asked. So I suspect that you were hoping for a load of “absolutely not. They’re American so everyone should be cancelling them.” Instead you didn’t, and had to elaborate, and find out that nobody cares. lol.

There aren’t. The likes of Ali express are full of cheap knock-offs disguising themselves as the real thing, and is the kind of company you really wouldn’t or shouldn’t want to give your credit card details to.

Surely just buy the toilet brush on the next Amazon order you do, I generally get an Amazon delivery about every 1-2 weeks same as supermarket delivery so it is delivered at a suitable time when I am in. I usually have about 5-10 things on the Amazon order as I use it for some grocery shopping. A pass for supermarket shopping it is about £90 a year so similar to Amazon, though I am using Waitrose at the moment as I'm between passes and using a couple of offers, I shall use Morrisons from Amazon for one supermarket delivery as I have a voucher.

Who goes out especially to buy a bog brush? Most people would pick one up when they were out buying other things too, but conversely they'll think nothing of having that van go out of their way dropping off one item at a time (in a rural area it may be doing a significant distance between drop-offs as I bet that you and your neighbours don't coordinate).

Not that you care about the planet anyway. You've been on other threads with your climate denial.

Given the number of incidents Boeing have had over the last few years, when I was planning a long-haul trip I was glad to see that Aer Lingus run an all-Airbus fleet.

You have to do it on the full website. Cant do it in the app.

I don't have any Apple products but do have two friends working for Amazon who would be very sad to lose the jobs they love. So, can I keep Prime?
(I also don't have Sky TV, only terrestrial, so quite like Prime stuff and also like the quick, free home delivery I also benefit from since my local council killed off the town centre by pedestrianising most of it and removing pretty much all the parking resulting in all the decent shops closing).

Also, I note the OP says she cancelled her Amazon Prime, she hasn't said she's not still using Amazon itself... 🤔😉😁

😂

I read that as Kevin from Motherland.

I love Prime, have it for the deliveries (that friends/family use as well), the unlimited books, free music and the streaming. Also pay for Disney+ (and Netflix for DD).

Def won't be giving it up, no matter how much I dislike Trump.

Eh? I can afford prime many times over but do not have it.