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@StraytoStay  YOU SAID IT!

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@DJs mom I"m going to get my notices to check the increases.  I know I joined at one price and got an increase in February 2018 and this recent report on an increase would be yet another.  I'll get back with my numbers.

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@scatcat THAT'S the best reason of all for an increase...because they CAN!

[sissel]

I like prime & will continue, get some free movies, free s&h plus delivers in a few days. I also have the amazon charge which gives me some extra credit cash too. It's $105 a year divide by 12 equals around $8.75 per month. I still think it's a good deal. Movies & free shipping alone. Also go under ebates before ordering to get a few dollars back, it adds up. I do make a list so they can combine most of it in one box and I can wait longer to get it. My only problem is sometimes they don't ring the doorbell and I know the day it will be delivered but have to go in email or get a text it is delivered. Understand these people have so much to deliver & are busy. I think I am worth the $8-$10 a month and will pay for it. Maybe add a family member or friend & split the prime cost if you can't afford it. 

[wagirl]

Not happy with such a huge increase but will get on my DD account when mine expires and share the cost with her. We live together so that is a legal thing to be able to do.

[hckynut]

While I think Amazon is a great business, and we are prime members! I think a 20% increase in any item/service or business is much too large of an increase.

Like many, I and my wife have choices, so!!!

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[golding76]

I just read that 1 in 2 American households has Amazon Prime.

Were you aware of that?  I wasn't.

[Venezia]

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@scatcat wrote:

I just read that Amazon has 100 million prime members

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Which begs the question:  why did they need to increase the price?

I've just had an issue with them, about a package not being delivered by my local post office.  If you can believe it, the carrier left me a note in my mailbox saying "To (sic) long for vehical (sic)".  He didn't even bother to come to my door to let me know it was at the post office.  I found out at the end of the day.  (And he falsified the tracking info, saying he'd tried to deliver it and "missed me".  Like he!!  I was home all day.)

I had to collect it myself and it fit quite easily into my small car on the back seat!  No one at my local even offered to carry it to the car for me. Contacted Amazon to request that, in future, they send anything "large" via UPS, with which we've never had a problem.  No can do, is the answer!

What happens, when a customer isn't able to collect a package him or herself?  (This was a Closet Maid kit, weighed about 30 lbs., about 4' x 13" x 3".)  I guess it gets returned to Amazon!  They didn't address that issue, but I know a lot of people use Amazon for just that reason.

I'm rethinking my online shopping for the first time.

[skuggles]

well there are 126 million households according to the US Census Bureau. Amazon reportedly has roughly 90 million paying prime subscribers.Multiply that by the new annual fee  $120.00 and that is about 10 billion dollars from the US alone. Heck they don't even need to sell one thing and they already have made a bundle..

[handygal2]

They're not making enough $$$$$ already??!!