Problem is – they tell me at checkout I’m getting it on Tuesday, then when I get the confirmation email, it says Wednesday, or sometimes it’s Thursday or Friday, because it’s coming from a warehouse not near where I live.

I say tough, you promised two days, get it here. They say, sorry sucker, can’t do it. And what’s worse is that even they the rep admits on the phone it’s not packing until Monday, their website says it’s already been packed and you can’t cancel it. If you call customer service, they can usually do the canellation, but what a pain.

So, my problem with Prime is that it’s a scam, a lie, a fruad – plain and simple.

If you don’t regularly shop online then this membership is probably not for you. As I read and understood the terms and conditions, this membership applies to me and up to three additional members of my household. I never understood it to be for sending gifts to others. When I order gifts I always choose standard shipping and only use prime shipping options for items to my home. No problems and I recently moved to another state but still maintain my UPS Store mailbox as my billing address.

how do I get MORE than one month free?

Here’s how Amazon.com Prime service was represented to me – you pay $79 annually and Amazon.com sends all your purchases via two-day UPS for free. Sounds like a great service, helping you save money if you order frequently from Amazon.com, right? Otherwise, why would someone pay $79 a year for the service, right?

Well, after sending gifts to about a dozen friends and family, I get a nasty email from Amazon.com Prime accusing me of buying stuff on Amazon and ‘reselling’ it at a profit. I was ordered to ‘Stop Immediately’ as Amazon.com Prime service accused me (very rudely, I might add) of violation of their ‘terms and conditions’.

First of all, I’m not reselling anything I bought on Amazon.com. Second, I bought the service to save money on shipping.

Apparently, Amazon Prime is designed for people who would have spent less than $79 for shipping and if you do – they trump some offensive remark and steal your money by not delivering what they promise.

Well, Amazon.com Prime ripped me off because they cancelled my subscription and refused to give me a refund of my $79 fee, or even a pro-rata refund.

My recommendation is to think twice about subscribing to Amazon.com Amazon Prime shipping service.

Kristi
Newport Beach, California

The membership has saved me a couple of times when I needed an item quickly and either couldn’t find it locally or didn’t have the time to drive around to find it. An extra $4 for 1 day shipping is quite the bargain. So many items I’ve ordered have been either the same price or cheaper than from a brick & mortar store, then when you add in the lack of sales tax and lack of gas money and time spent going to the store, I’ve really come out ahead. I’ve wondered why they provide such a deal, but then realized it is to encourage you to buy from Amazon instead of competitors. Well it works for me.

Oh, and just learned today that you can share the membership with up to 4 household members. This wasn’t an issue during the year, cause I would just order for anyone in the house, but when it came to Christmas shopping, using my account for another family member to order something for me wasn’t going to work. So sharing the membership on another account makes sense afterall. Hurray!

All of these are way cheaper than what we could get in the store, and in some cases we can’t find them in the store anymore. The lollipops saved us enough money from what we were paying in the store that it paid for the entire Prime membership for a year.