Amazon Prime

TadleyBaggie

ariba10 wrote: »

To me it is like shopping in a supermarket and they drop something in your basket/trolley that you are not looking for or wanting. And hope you don’t notice at the checkout.

Never been a supermarket that does that...

ariba10

TadleyBaggie wrote: »

Never been a supermarket that does that...

Neither have I but Amazon tries to.

Oldman

First, I agree, no one frog marches me to the till marked "join Prime Here"
But, when all you have bought over the past month or so is a few ebooks for Kindle reader, then how come you suddenly find that yet again you are paying for Amazon Prime? This is not a case of ordering a product that needs delivery from post or van. This is not a three days normal or one day pay an exhorbitant fee order. This is an electronic transfer of a book. Even on the occasion of buying a product and selecting three day delivery ( normal delivery, no option to join Prime selected) next month Bingo, you are a Prime member. No email telling you this.
So there is something called a systems error that does this. Amazing how all systems errors make me pay them, not make them give me discounts. Just saying.

Rainbowgirl84

Oldman wrote: »

First, I agree, no one frog marches me to the till marked "join Prime Here"
But, when all you have bought over the past month or so is a few ebooks for Kindle reader, then how come you suddenly find that yet again you are paying for Amazon Prime? This is not a case of ordering a product that needs delivery from post or van. This is not a three days normal or one day pay an exhorbitant fee order. This is an electronic transfer of a book. Even on the occasion of buying a product and selecting three day delivery ( normal delivery, no option to join Prime selected) next month Bingo, you are a Prime member. No email telling you this.
So there is something called a systems error that does this. Amazing how all systems errors make me pay them, not make them give me discounts. Just saying.

The only things I have bought from Amazon this year is 20-25ish ebooks, one a week or so yet I've never managed to accidentally be signed up to Prime...I suspect user error and not a system error is more likely.
If it's happened to you so often why have you not taken screen shots as evidence?

prettywowers

Yet another prime thread started because the OP can't be bothered to read. How tiresome.

ibizafan_2

I inadvertently signed up to three months free Prime earlier in the year. I was annoyed with myself, but made sure I cancelled more or less straight away. To be fair, they did keep telling me when my time was up. The good thing was we ordered quite a lot of stuff during the three months, so the free postage was a bonus.

seashore22

Oldman wrote: »

First, I agree, no one frog marches me to the till marked "join Prime Here"
But, when all you have bought over the past month or so is a few ebooks for Kindle reader, then how come you suddenly find that yet again you are paying for Amazon Prime? This is not a case of ordering a product that needs delivery from post or van. This is not a three days normal or one day pay an exhorbitant fee order. This is an electronic transfer of a book. Even on the occasion of buying a product and selecting three day delivery ( normal delivery, no option to join Prime selected) next month Bingo, you are a Prime member. No email telling you this.
So there is something called a systems error that does this. Amazing how all systems errors make me pay them, not make them give me discounts. Just saying.

Honestly, you're doing something wrong, not reading the page, whatever. I used Amazon for years without accidentally signing up to prime. I now have prime and love it.

I would strongly suggest that just possibly doing this once is understandable, getting caught out multiple times sounds like carelessness.

seashore22

You can't even use Prime to buy a Kindle book, can you?

If you click on the kindle book and press "buy" I don't think it goes near a Prime option.

Moglex

seashore22 wrote: »

You can't even use Prime to buy a Kindle book, can you?

If you click on the kindle book and press "buy" I don't think it goes near a Prime option.

Isn't that rather the point of part of the OP's complaint (mentioned in a subsequent post to the OP)?

He said that all he'd done was buy a few kindle books, so how did he get signed up to prime, when prime has nothing to do with kindle book sales?

Deep_In_Debt

ibizafan wrote: »

I inadvertently signed up to three months free Prime earlier in the year. I was annoyed with myself, but made sure I cancelled more or less straight away. To be fair, they did keep telling me when my time was up. The good thing was we ordered quite a lot of stuff during the three months, so the free postage was a bonus.

Same here. I accidentally signed up for a free trial and kicked myself immediately afterwards when I realised what I had done. I then ordered quite a bit of stuff that was needed to take advantage and then I cancelled a few days before the end of the free trial.