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Some people are being very naive if they think a free trial is not a scam, it just happens to be a legal scam that's all.
It's exploiting various psychological weaknesses that human beings have, for financial gain. Rather like advertising in that regard.
It's very dubious marketing and any company that uses it is not one to be trusted.
Yes the "small print" explains things, just like with adverts and other amazing-this-week-only deals. Says it all really doesn't it?
Such offers are designed to mislead, so people need to be less judgemental of the individual and slightly more so towards a huge multi-national company who know exactly what they are doing with deals like this offered at the point of sale.0 -
are you saying that the Amazon prime free trial is a scam???Some people are being very naive if they think a free trial is not a scam, it just happens to be a legal scam that's all.
It's exploiting various psychological weaknesses that human beings have, for financial gain. Rather like advertising in that regard.
It's very dubious marketing and any company that uses it is not one to be trusted.
Yes the "small print" explains things, just like with adverts and other amazing-this-week-only deals. Says it all really doesn't it?
Such offers are designed to mislead, so people need to be less judgemental of the individual and slightly more so towards a huge multi-national company who know exactly what they are doing with deals like this offered at the point of sale.
As far as I am concerned there is no way it is a scam .... it is fairly obvious that you are going to have to pay for Amazon Prime at the end of the trial.
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But it's NOT in the 'small print'.
It's in a whopping big box that pops up if you try to click on:
FREE One-Day Delivery with a free trial of
(1 business day)
It says THIS:
Get FREE One-Day Delivery on This Order with Amazon Prime
New members are eligible to receive a Free one-month trial of Amazon Prime - Amazon's exclusive membership program that gives you and up to four of your household family members the benefits of unlimited One-Day Delivery on eligible Amazon.co.uk purchases.
AMAZON PRIME - FAST, FREE, NO-HASSLE DELIVERY Learn more
Place your order before the deadline displayed on the item detail page to get:
- Unlimited FREE One-Day Delivery on over a million eligible items
- Express Delivery (delivery before 1pm) for £4.49 per item
- Evening Delivery for £7.48 per item (London and Birmingham addresses)
- No Minimum Purchase - No need to think about delivery charges when you order
- The one-month trial is completely free for you to enjoy
- There's no obligation to continue beyond the trial period. You can cancel your membership through Your Account at any time during your Free Trial and you will not be charged the £49.00 annual fee
- We will upgrade products in your order marked 'Eligible for Amazon Prime delivery rates', to free One-Day Delivery, the moment you sign up
Free Trial is available to new members only. Limit one per household.
By clicking the button below, you acknowledge that you have read and agreed to the Terms and Conditions and the above, and authorise us to charge the payment method above or another available on file.
Turn on 1-click ordering using my default Amazon Prime settings
Upgrade my order and start my Free Trial now
Just how much clearer do you need it to be?
What part of this statement below do people have difficulty understanding?
There's no obligation to continue beyond the trial period. You can cancel your membership through Your Account at any time during your Free Trial and you will not be charged the £49.00 annual fee
Basically, people just can't be arsed to read what's in front of them.
I'm not naive, I can see it's a FREE trial that will cost me money if I don't cancel it sometime during the trial period.
It's not exactly rocket science, is it?
Nor is it 'dubious marketing'.
It's NOT designed to mislead at all.
If people can't read and understand what they are signing up to, they shouldn't be let loose on a computer with credit/debit cards.
Amazon might 'know exactly what they are doing with deals like this offered at the point of sale' but the buyer should make sure he/she knows what they are doing too.
It's called personal accountability.
I can be sympathetic when someone has been genuinely scammed, but not when it's their own fault because they haven't read something that's right in front of their face.
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are you saying that the Amazon prime free trial is a scam???
As far as I am concerned there is no way it is a scam .... it is fairly obvious that you are going to have to pay for Amazon Prime at the end of the trial.
Mark
Hey Ho!
Here we go again, Mark.
It's obvious that the obviously free trial offer is not obvious enough for some people.
The only part of your post I would disagree with is the "fairly obvious" comment.
I'd say it was blindingly obvious - if you take the time to read it instead of clicking blindly on any box so you can get to the part where you pay your money as quickly as possible.0 -
Hey Ho!
Here we go again, Mark.
It's obvious that the obviously free trial offer is not obvious enough for some people.
The only part of your post I would disagree with is the "fairly obvious" comment.
I'd say it was blindingly obvious - if you take the time to read it instead of clicking blindly on any box so you can get to the part where you pay your money as quickly as possible.
Hi,
It is quite amazing the number of new users who come on this website & slag off Amazon - yet the fact you need to pay for Prime after the free trial is so damn obvious it is unbelievable .... they even offer to give you the money back if you don't use prime.
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yes it is obvious but if you forget as I did until I saw the payment on my cc you are able to go in and cancel it and my money was refunded to my cc within days.0
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yes it is obvious but if you forget as I did until I saw the payment on my cc you are able to go in and cancel it and my money was refunded to my cc within days.
Imho, Amazon are being more than fair by refunding the Prime fee, but even that isn't enough for people like Tassium it seems.0 -
The concept of personal opinion is often missing in advice sites I've noticed.
Only Ebay forums are worse!
To do a cut 'n paste from an entire Amazon page complete with colour is perhaps going a but too far?0 -
The concept of personal opinion is often missing in advice sites I've noticed.
Only Ebay forums are worse!
To do a cut 'n paste from an entire Amazon page complete with colour is perhaps going a but too far?
Let me translate that for you:
"I can't believe you don't agree with me.
I can't believe you cut and pasted something to wholly and utterly defeat my weak argument."
:D
There are 3 types of people being caught out by this "scam":
(1) Lazy
(2) Stupid
(3) NegligentThe man without a signature.0
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