Amazon Prime Adding Adverts?

[KissTheRains]

Was this a known thing that's coming?

I got the email this morning and don't recall hearing anything about it.

I pay for Prime, but they're putting ads in and want another £2.99 to turn them off?

I don't like that.

Amazon prime video is an increasingly dire service. It’s already full of extra charges and additional price content, piling ads into the mix is not going to improve things.

But I doubt Amazon care.

Amazon make billions a year I'd have thought, I know I spend a fortune there at Christmas and birthdays and whenever I need odds and ends.

If it wasn't for the delivery aspect, I'd cancel it in a heart beat.

I think that’s how most people feel about Amazon prime. I just have it for the deliveries. And the convenience. It’s not because I love Amazon. 🤣

I find it hard to imagine anyone choosing prime video as their preferred steaming service. You wade through loads of stuff you have to pay for and a million sub-subscription possibilities. It’s dire.

Amazon music is no better.

Absolutely crap, just cancelled mine. Been a member for years and it's been getting steadily worse.

I hadn’t heard anything about it before the email today. Similar to others though I mainly have prime for the delivery so won’t cancel but it is annoying. I don’t use prime TV that much though so hopefully it won’t be too much of an impact when I do use it.

I only use Prime for the delivery, interestingly the postman is delivering Amazon purchases now. I rareget a white van man.

*rarely get

I just got the email this morning. All the streaming services are doing the same now. Although granted most have the with advert option cheaper, rather than Prime keeping it the same and asking for more money for no ads.

I do watch Prime, buy this whole thing is annoying. Streaming was advertised as ad free when it all first started!

This has made me think about cancelling.

They’ve been whittling down the free and ad-free content for a while now. Moving stuff onto Freevee etc which has ads. Which is a stupid move as who is going to pay extra for what tiny bit of content is still ad-free? I don’t even bother watching it anymore so won’t be paying extra.

It was in the news about a month ago, I don't watch Prime that much and have it primarily for delivery, I get a years subscription because it's cheaper and will only pay the extra £2.99 if I am watching quite a bit on there like a big series. Most streamers are extra for no adverts now, even Sky has an extra £5 charge if you have Glass or Stream

It was announced a little while back, I've not had my email yet but I knew it was coming

I'm going to see what effect it has and decide when my renewal is due

I have it mainly for deliveries. I used to watch some old series on Prime but don't really use it much any more. I also stopped using Prime Music as Spotify is much better.

If people are saying they don't watch it anyway, surely it will make no difference.

Me too.

I may cancel anyway and allow the lack of delivery to encourage me to shop elsewhere.

Amazon is too convenient.

When they merged the Amazon Video with Prime Delivery it was just a stealth way of pushing up the price of Delivery.

The adverts won't affect me because, like most people, I can never find anything I actually want to watch on Prime.

At some point they'd reach a level where they start to lose Prime customers but I suspect they have a substantial team working on exactly how much they can wring out of us until we finally wise up.

It depends how many deliveries you have, we average about 200 a year which I suspect will go up now Wilko has gone so £95 a year isn't too bad. There must be an amount of deliveries when it is not worth it though

200 a year?!?! That's almost every day! I'd suspect you could probably do fewer orders and group them together, qualifying for free delivery? I never pay for delivery and we don't have prime. I add things to my basket and when it qualifies, I check out.

I've just cancelled my subscription. £95 is great if you buy loads of stuff off amazon, but I mainly used it for the prime video service. Everything decent you have to pay for now, even some old films are £9.99. I wouldn't mind the ads if it meant more stuff was free or the subscription price reduced.

I definitely think you're in a minority with that amount of orders though (no judgement at all).

I watch less and less on Amazon video, but do enjoy the delivery and free books. I'll be weighing up cancelling next time it's due to renew.

I read rumours last year online this was imminent. I cancelled my membership last month as I wasn’t getting value from it, plus it’s one less outgoing to track. I still get free delivery on items, I just bulk up the order of those same items to £20 or more but before I was buying them as and when, singularly.

I guess no amount of profits is enough for Amazon.

I'm running out of reasons to renew my Prime subscription anyway. They messed with the included music last year; loads of things I'd like to watch on Prime video have no subtitles (I have age related hearing loss); many things on Prime video are not included so cost extra; and the free delivery doesn't feel very free when I can often get what I want to buy cheaper, including postage, elsewhere.

I'm another who mostly uses Prime for the faster delivery, and maybe the podcasts on the Prime Music. Prime Video is pretty rubbish and I could easily manage without. You have to pay for a lot of the programming and I spend a lot of time outside Britain, where most of their 'catalogue' is not available at all.

I suspect it's only a matter of time before Netflix and the other streamers do something similar. Netflix's business model seems completely unsustainable to me. At least for Amazon, the video service is only a very small part of their business.

@ProfessionalTeaDrinker

I just checked and I ordered 113 items and that's not including all the things my partner will have ordered on the same account

It's quite shocking really but we live in a rural place and I have a 2yo it's not always easy to get out to get little bits so we order A LOT from Amazon, otherwise we'd be paying a lot in delivery fees