Amazon forcing prime membership on customers

jsharris99

Ok but I didn't see anything to tell me it was only available to prime members. Both are ordered as 'standard delivery' and fulfilled by amazon. Its only bath shower gel that I ordered ?

Grumpy_chap

I agree that the "no prime" options to purchase can be very hard to locate at times.
I did, sadly, get caught out on a paid for trial a little while back but managed to make good use of it for the month.
If it is a free trial offered, I see little reason not to take it anyway - the risk is being careful to cancel the trial in the last couple of days before the month expires.

jsharris99 said:

I then immediately went and cancelled the membership

If you have chosen the Prime membership, there seems to be little to gain by cancelling earlier than the initial period has run its course - might as well keep Prime on the account for now to gain any benefits that are available in the month.  Care is required to cancel before auto-renew.

jsharris99

Same order, same items, same suppliers, standard delivery and now the "buy now" button is available ?!! (After I again selected - "no prime" from the single choice window). This didn't happen on my order before. I've made many many many orders from amazon over the years. This is the first time that this has happened ! I've cancelled the prime membership to get a full refund. It wasn't a free trial but £8.99 / month.

MikeJXE

Came up against this 12 months ago so 

I switched to eBay, just as much to choose from 

Ok so no next day it usually takes 3 with free delivery 

TheSpectator

Did you try Boots for these? That bottom gift set is £10 there and it's 3 for 2 on Soap and Glory stuff

born_again

jsharris99 said:

Same order, same items, same suppliers, standard delivery and now the "buy now" button is available ?!! (After I again selected - "no prime" from the single choice window). This didn't happen on my order before. I've made many many many orders from amazon over the years. This is the first time that this has happened ! I've cancelled the prime membership to get a full refund. It wasn't a free trial but £8.99 / month.

Ouch.. As above boots is £7.99 per bottle of that shower gell.

This is MSE after all.

jsharris99

Thanks for the boots advice ! I usually check on Ebay too on prices. My fault for not checking around !

jsharris99

Thank you to the ones who've been very supportive. I cancelled the Amazon order and re-ordered from BOOTS ! Thanks for saving me some money !