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Cancel Amazon Prime [2021]
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this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Buying stuff online is just modern life. Might as well get fast shipping and discounts. Prime is no different than any other pay-to-join shopping club.
You can order from somewhere else online. Most of Amazon is cheap crap from aliexpress now anyway. They don't even have the best prices most of the time anymore.
Sure, if I can wait 2-5 weeks I'll check AliExpress.
My point was not to buy things that are just shitty crap from aliexpress. Or that cheap crap from aliexpress is unappealing junk that nobody would want to buy, the equivalent of email spam. In fact, the complaint I tend to hear people make the most often about Amazon is how hard it is to find anything on there that isn't cheap chinese junk from AliExpress.
Perhaps people use Amazon differently than I do. I mostly buy niche items that you simply can't buy at stores, or if you do find them at stores they are astronomically expensive.
Which is not to say I don't switch things up. I order from Best Buy, Walmart, a whole bunch of different places. But on balance, I'm happy with the Prime subscription and use it frequently.