Oh boy, more enshittification

  • Apathy Tree@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Fun fact - if you order a bunch of stuff non-prime, the ship time will be like a week and a half or whatever. If you then upgrade to prime (even the free trial), the delivery estimate suddenly recalculates and it’ll be there in 2 days.

    It’s artificially slowed, by obscene amounts, to encourage paying for the subscription. Which other sites don’t do.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t received anything in 2 days since early 2020, and what finally made me cancel is they took forever to even ship one of my items that was in stock. I ordered two things, one was shipped by the seller and arrived in 3 or 4 days, the other was from the same seller but shipped by Amazon, and they didn’t even initiate shipping until a week later.

      I was paying for a service that’s objectively worse than the norm.

    • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I think it depends on where you live. I’ve been without Prime a while and haven’t seen the artificial slowdown. It always says it’ll take 9 days or something when I order, but most often I get a shipping update the next day and things show up in 2-3 days anyway.