Amazon Prime

calleyw

elsien said:

I do the free trials and then cancel. Only got stung once when I missed the cancellation date, which I don’t recall getting any reminders for. Now I cancel the following day as you still get the rest of the trial time anyway.

You can cancel the moment after you have taken it out.  Saves remembering and you keep use of it until the date of expiry

Yours

Calley

pollypenny

elsien said:

I do the free trials and then cancel. Only got stung once when I missed the cancellation date, which I don’t recall getting any reminders for. Now I cancel the following day as you still get the rest of the trial time anyway.

I accidentally tapped the prime link for a recent delivery, so thanks for this tip.  I've just cancelled, but it was very interesting that I was offered the chance to extend trial by another month. 

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I accidentally tapped the prime link for a recent delivery, so thanks for this tip.  I've just cancelled, but it was very interesting that I was offered the chance to extend trial by another month. 

You should have taken up the offer to extend it by another month... and then cancelled again.  

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I agree the Amazon prime offer is tricky.  The first time I saw it on an order I avoided the trap.  The second time a couple of weeks later, the trap caught me, maybe because I remembered clicking in that area and it was ok the 1st time so I became complacent and did not concentrate.  At the end of the day I was pretty savvy and it caught me out but then I just had prime for a month on trial, I made sure to sign up to the email reminder when it was due to end...that process was a lengthy lot of clicks.  
I was annoyed I had been caught and I could not go back (using the back button)  to see how I was caught.  

Anyway, I came to the end of the trial and cancelled and it gave me another month free, so I set another reminder and in due course i cancelled that one too.   I did not know at the time that you could cancel straight away (as mentioned above).  

Anyway -again- 2 days ago I ordered again from amazon and I was offered the free trial again, this time I was ready to scrutinise the page to see how I had been caught before.  It is because the yellow box to proceed with prime and the grey box to proceed without prime.is directly underneath it and is smaller.   I avoided it this time.  I don't care about free next day delivery,  free delivery within 3 days is good enough for me as it turned out they arrived within 2 days anyway.   

MalMonroe

So many people have been caught out with this and I agree, it is very sneaky. Here is something from this very site from last September. https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/amazon-prime-refund/

I like the story about the person who pushed amazon and got two lots of prime refunded.

Although you can get your money back, no question of that - I've done it myself - it's annoying how easy it is just to click on the wrong thing and not realise. Doesn't seem like amazon is going to do anything about it though.

No wonder Jeff Bezos was able to step down a billionaire last month. Be aware though, he's not retired, he's going on to 'new ventures'!  

MidlandsGlory

You can see why they do it, a lot of people are not MSE at managing their money and don't check statements so recurring payments are forgotten, especially the odd £8 a month. Amazon get money that the customer that may not even be getting any use for it.
Also if someone has Prime of course when they need something, especially quick they will probably buy it from Amazon instead of going to a shop or using a slower online, but Amazon these days are certainly not guaranteed to be the cheapest in all cases.

lifemagic

I haven't used Amazon for years but couldn't locate some medical stockings I needed. I found some on Amazon and was comparing various brands by putting them in my cart but not checking out. Next day I had an email that I had signed up for prime. Absolutely no idea how. I went as far as looking at post and packing charges but never ordered. I had to go through all the hassle of cancelling. Once I confirmed this is a subscription service that would have cost me money, plus I could see no way to easily contact them to complain, I washed my hands of them. I'll never purchase again. 

vacheron

I like all their convoluted attempts to sign me up, because when it becomes clear to them (or more correctly, their algorithms) that I am always going to reject signing up for it, it they keep sending me free Prime trial offers to tempt me in, at which point I order all the small insignificant stuff I've been holding back buying for the last few months.

I'm currently in the middle of a 30 day one. My third free trial in the last 12 months. 

greyteam1959

I stopped buying lots of thing from Amazon because their prices were becoming un competitive.
Exact same things from eBay with free postage & cheaper.

[Deleted User]

90% of physical goods I get online are from Amazon. Will use prime when I think I will be buying a bunch of stuff during a month. Get my stuff delivered on the day I want.

Great service.