@willdob3 wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@willdob3 wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@willdob3 wrote:
@Moonchilde wrote:
@willdob3 wrote:
I love Amazon Prime, too.
I don't think I will be buying anything tomorrow though. I'm not looking for excuses to send more money, just ways to save on things I already need/want.
I will say I would not have paid $99 just for free S&H. I got it for Amazon Prime Video. It is my main TV/movie "channel" since I don't have cable TV. A month of cable used to cost me about what a year of Amazon does. Free 2 day S&H and the other perks are just icing on the cake.
Strangely, @willdob3, I once felt as you do, but I have done an about-face. I never wanted Prime while I was working and living in a huge urban area where I could pretty much buy anything and didn't need anything in 2 days.
I knew I was moving to a semi-rural area with lousy cable, so got Prime on sale for Prime Video.
Turns out, the wi-fi is data capped and slooowwww (not mine, can't do anything about it), so it's rare that I can get through a movie :-( OTOH, I either can't find a lot of things I used to take for granted in local stores, and/or would have to drive 30 miles round trip to get them, so I am using Prime shipping (and loving it) all the time now when I never thought I would. Who knew?
I had to upgrade my Internet because I stream my TV instead of using cable. I still save a lot of money.
I DO use Prime 2 day shipping & I order quite often. Before I had Prime I would just wait until I had enough to buy that it qualified for free shipping. Now I don't have to wait so I order more often but the total amount of the order tends to be less much of the time.
If only we COULD upgrade the internet (I'd pay!) but alas, no can do. Our ONLY option is a HughesNet dish. No one else has receivers where we are. It's a dead zone. ALL HughesNet, everywhere, is data capped. Ours is slow because of geographic location (halfway on a sheltered hill). Towards the end of the month I want to shoot myself. I had 15 mps speed and of course unlimited data in LA. Waaah! 😖
Oh! I used to work for Wild Blue and kind of wondered if you might have that or HughesNet. That is rough. And I know there isn't anything you can do about it.
It sucks, speed-wise and data-wise, but it wouldn't be *as* bad if the house didn't sit where it does :-(
I got a survey from HughesNet a couple of weeks ago. It took me forever to complete the survey because the website kept giving me the "you have no wifi connection" message because it was taking so long - except, I *did* have, it was just that slow. I made sure that went in the survey, you betcha!
Have you called their CS to see if they can tweak the dish or something? With service that bad I would be requesting they attempt to fix it and, if they can't, I'd be requesting a discount.
The CS I spoke to once was in India. It was an ordeal :-( They sent a new modem/router, which we probably didn't even need, and *supposedly* bumped the speed up. Except it was only speedier for about 4-5 days and the bill has not gone up as it should have, so apparently they didn't speed it up. I've just been dreading calling them again, because NO we don't need another modem, and...India. I usually don't have serious issues with overseas CS but this was...agony. I DO think tweaking the dish might help, but I'm sure they'll try to force us to pay for a service call, and...India.
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