Quite modest rise and first in a long time, plus I get value from it, so not that bothered by it.
Things are nearly always cheaper on Ebay anyway.
Still good value for me, and first rise in eight years which is pretty much in line with inflation 2014 – 2021, although with the current rate on inflation wouldn’t be surprised with another rise next year.
Amazons low prices are due, in part, to their tax avoidance. If you want to live in an impoverished society, buying from Amazon is a good way to get there.
‘Ethical Consumer has calculated that, in 2021, up to half a billion pounds (£500,000,000) could have been lost to the UK public purse from the corporation tax avoidance Amazon alone. This amount could have paid for…a £10,000 investment in insulating the homes of 50,000 pensioners in the worst fuel poverty’
Edit1 : Shout out to HiveStores. UK based and pay their taxes. They are my preferred bookseller.
Edit2 : Regarding tax laws, it is one thing to minimise tax, quite another to spend millions ensuring laws are rigged to keep corporate taxes low (shifting the tax burden to ordinary workers) while simultaneously taking advantage of the education, roads and rule of law that taxes fund.
Big thing for me is prime video, been a surprise at the standard of TV being produced in other countries which is accesable through prime.
Trying different countries has reveled the brilliance of Chinese drama especially historical costume dramas where the production values are off the scale, brilliant writing and audiences Hollywood could only dream of. I read that **The Story of MingLan** was getting 400 million views in its early episodes.
Glad I ditched it.
Just encourages junk and impulse buying. The media services are garbage too.
It’s probably the best “value” when it comes to streaming subs (as it comes with prime delivery and music), but still, raising prices is never great for the consumer.
I try to only have one streaming service on the go at once.
It’s interesting how it provides so much that everyone seems to have different uses for the subscription. For me the twitch sub and gaming stuff it provides is great value even with this increase. Never touch the video stuff
Wow. The Amazon Defense Force are out in droves in these comments. Do you think they’re paid shills or true believers?
*edit
Touched a nerve I see. I also use Prime, and I do get my money’s worth. But I’m not going to simp for a tax avoiding multinational corporation with atrocious worker conditions and environmental impact.
Meh it’s cheaper than a single delivery from a lot of online retailers and you get all the streaming films / tv / music etc as well
I mean seriously what do people expect for a few quid a month?
As annoying as the rise is, it is far less than the rise on my internet, electricity etc this year. For us it’s very good value – we watch Prime Video regularly, we borrow the free books sometimes and we always stream music in the car so we do get a lot of use out of it in addition to the next day delivery.
I thought about cancelling and what that would mean and decided the rise will just have to be swallowed. We don’t have netflix or anything like that though.
If they don’t raise their prices, Amazon might only make 10’s of billions of profit instead of 100’s of billions! Won’t someone please think of the billionaires 🙁
The annual payment has gone up £16. It’s still less than paying monthly but the saving has substantially reduced.
Previous annual saving : 17.6%
New annual saving : 12%
At least, we know this money is going to be given to the hardworking front-line staff.
Lol jk – Bezoz needs another space rocket to wank himself off over
Mines doubled because it’s finally realised I’m no longer a student.
It’s a very modest increase of a pound a month, 25 mere pence a week—you’d be pushed to find anything to spend that on. With the speed and convenience of Amazon, the generally lower prices of almost everything, the deals they regularly have on, as well as the list of services that you get with Prime, it’s still pretty good value
It’s just unbelievably bittersweet that a corporation worth billions upon billions feels the need to up their prices. That’s what doesn’t sit right with me, not the price increase itself
I miss the time where you could pay just for prime delivery for forty-something pounds a year. That’s all I want.
I get it for free as long as I get my 10,000 steps in a few days a week.
I assume will still get it for free under the new pricing.
Only really use it for Prime TV and occasionally buying something on Amazon that I want/need next day – not very often really.
If it wasn’t paid for me, I’d not bother really. £108 over the course of a year is quite a bit.
I know this is actually a fair increase but the streaming companies are desperately trying to force us back to torrents and I’m all for it.
Employees were told not to ask for pay rises because of inflation, companies should’ve been told the same for raising prices.
Until about 2017 I used to fully boycott Amazon because of their tax avoidance and how they treat their staff.
Then I realised that I was only punishing myself. I don’t have a high income, I need the savings that Amazon can provide.
If the majority of this country want to keep letting the Tories into power to Amazon’s behaviour then I need to get real and accept that that’s the country I live in.
All the headlines are focusing on the small £1 monthly increase, yet paying annually has jumped from £79 to £95
I can’t moan.
For some reason they gave me the student version for the last few years.
It’s like £3.99 a month so I’ve kept my mouth shut
I literally cancelled my Prime subscription on Sunday as I realised I never use it. Glad I did now!
Former Amazon cheerleader (account opened November 2001) Prime delivery service on Amazon went down the shitter a while ago in my rural area thanks to their reliance on utterly useless DPD. Customer service no longer interested. No more Prime.
Not buying stuff from amazon won’t make a difference. Changes in tax laws will.
HOW DARE THEY?
Seriously though, prime is really good value. A video streaming service, a music streaming service, free next day delivery, and if you’re a gamer you get loads of free shit.
I know they’re an evil corporation or whatever but value is value
My friend owns a pub. He recently increased the price of a pint by a pound.
I asked him why and he said that it’s not because his costs have increased but because ‘everyone else is doing it’.
I bet he won’t be so courteous to his staff when they ask for a pay rise.
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Quite modest rise and first in a long time, plus I get value from it, so not that bothered by it.
Things are nearly always cheaper on Ebay anyway.
Still good value for me, and first rise in eight years which is pretty much in line with inflation 2014 – 2021, although with the current rate on inflation wouldn’t be surprised with another rise next year.
Amazons low prices are due, in part, to their tax avoidance. If you want to live in an impoverished society, buying from Amazon is a good way to get there.
‘Ethical Consumer has calculated that, in 2021, up to half a billion pounds (£500,000,000) could have been lost to the UK public purse from the corporation tax avoidance Amazon alone. This amount could have paid for…a £10,000 investment in insulating the homes of 50,000 pensioners in the worst fuel poverty’
[Link](https://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ethicalcampaigns/boycott-amazon)
Edit1 : Shout out to HiveStores. UK based and pay their taxes. They are my preferred bookseller.
Edit2 : Regarding tax laws, it is one thing to minimise tax, quite another to spend millions ensuring laws are rigged to keep corporate taxes low (shifting the tax burden to ordinary workers) while simultaneously taking advantage of the education, roads and rule of law that taxes fund.
Big thing for me is prime video, been a surprise at the standard of TV being produced in other countries which is accesable through prime.
Trying different countries has reveled the brilliance of Chinese drama especially historical costume dramas where the production values are off the scale, brilliant writing and audiences Hollywood could only dream of. I read that **The Story of MingLan** was getting 400 million views in its early episodes.
Glad I ditched it.
Just encourages junk and impulse buying. The media services are garbage too.
It’s probably the best “value” when it comes to streaming subs (as it comes with prime delivery and music), but still, raising prices is never great for the consumer.
I try to only have one streaming service on the go at once.
It’s interesting how it provides so much that everyone seems to have different uses for the subscription. For me the twitch sub and gaming stuff it provides is great value even with this increase. Never touch the video stuff
Wow. The Amazon Defense Force are out in droves in these comments. Do you think they’re paid shills or true believers?
*edit
Touched a nerve I see. I also use Prime, and I do get my money’s worth. But I’m not going to simp for a tax avoiding multinational corporation with atrocious worker conditions and environmental impact.
Meh it’s cheaper than a single delivery from a lot of online retailers and you get all the streaming films / tv / music etc as well
I mean seriously what do people expect for a few quid a month?
As annoying as the rise is, it is far less than the rise on my internet, electricity etc this year. For us it’s very good value – we watch Prime Video regularly, we borrow the free books sometimes and we always stream music in the car so we do get a lot of use out of it in addition to the next day delivery.
I thought about cancelling and what that would mean and decided the rise will just have to be swallowed. We don’t have netflix or anything like that though.
If they don’t raise their prices, Amazon might only make 10’s of billions of profit instead of 100’s of billions! Won’t someone please think of the billionaires 🙁
The annual payment has gone up £16. It’s still less than paying monthly but the saving has substantially reduced.
Edit: Monthly increase: 12.5%.
Annual increase: 20%
Previous annual saving : 17.6%
New annual saving : 12%
At least, we know this money is going to be given to the hardworking front-line staff.
Lol jk – Bezoz needs another space rocket to wank himself off over
Mines doubled because it’s finally realised I’m no longer a student.
It’s a very modest increase of a pound a month, 25 mere pence a week—you’d be pushed to find anything to spend that on. With the speed and convenience of Amazon, the generally lower prices of almost everything, the deals they regularly have on, as well as the list of services that you get with Prime, it’s still pretty good value
It’s just unbelievably bittersweet that a corporation worth billions upon billions feels the need to up their prices. That’s what doesn’t sit right with me, not the price increase itself
I miss the time where you could pay just for prime delivery for forty-something pounds a year. That’s all I want.
I get it for free as long as I get my 10,000 steps in a few days a week.
I assume will still get it for free under the new pricing.
Only really use it for Prime TV and occasionally buying something on Amazon that I want/need next day – not very often really.
If it wasn’t paid for me, I’d not bother really. £108 over the course of a year is quite a bit.
I know this is actually a fair increase but the streaming companies are desperately trying to force us back to torrents and I’m all for it.
Employees were told not to ask for pay rises because of inflation, companies should’ve been told the same for raising prices.
Until about 2017 I used to fully boycott Amazon because of their tax avoidance and how they treat their staff.
Then I realised that I was only punishing myself. I don’t have a high income, I need the savings that Amazon can provide.
If the majority of this country want to keep letting the Tories into power to Amazon’s behaviour then I need to get real and accept that that’s the country I live in.
All the headlines are focusing on the small £1 monthly increase, yet paying annually has jumped from £79 to £95
I can’t moan.
For some reason they gave me the student version for the last few years.
It’s like £3.99 a month so I’ve kept my mouth shut
I literally cancelled my Prime subscription on Sunday as I realised I never use it. Glad I did now!
Former Amazon cheerleader (account opened November 2001) Prime delivery service on Amazon went down the shitter a while ago in my rural area thanks to their reliance on utterly useless DPD. Customer service no longer interested. No more Prime.
Not buying stuff from amazon won’t make a difference. Changes in tax laws will.
HOW DARE THEY?
Seriously though, prime is really good value. A video streaming service, a music streaming service, free next day delivery, and if you’re a gamer you get loads of free shit.
I know they’re an evil corporation or whatever but value is value
My friend owns a pub. He recently increased the price of a pint by a pound.
I asked him why and he said that it’s not because his costs have increased but because ‘everyone else is doing it’.
I bet he won’t be so courteous to his staff when they ask for a pay rise.