Amazon are testing a cut-price Prime Subscription (Prime Lite)

SD Video= Nope. BIG Nope.

And as for Prime Delivery: delivery on orders under £20 is free to a pick-up point anyway. Since I prefer pick-up, I've no reason to pay for Prime delivery.

Don't bother with Prime video, but boyf does (I'm sharing a family account at the moment with my side).

I do sometimes download the free ebooks (every month) and Prime Gaming has some great games (last played Suzerain and loved it, even though I obviously wasn't ruthless enough, going by others' experiences of the game!), so I'd be a bit torn.

I don't mind slower delivery at all - it's only once in a while something's needed urgently. (edited)

My prime was due to renew on the 23rd, but no way im paying £90. Just came off student prime where I was only £39 for the year so it's a big jump.

I barely watch prime video and don't use the music service or the reading. About the only benefit I use is the odd twitch sub and I usually redeem the games on Prime Gaming but never actually end up playing them. Same with the First Reads.

So yeah, I'd probably go for a "lite" option. I order enough that I'll miss my sub and free delivery when it's finished so it'd work for me. Don't mind the delivery speed so long as it's free.

I can confirm as I've been testing their student sub for the past few years

I cancelled Prime a few years ago. I realised that most of the time when I am looking for a book, music, blu-ray etc Amazon is rarely the cheapest. Moreover, the last few things that I have ordered from Amazon (as a non-Prime user) have arrived the next day anyway, so I'm not sure that I see the point in paying for Prime or even Prime-lite. To be honest I am surprised that Amazon don't delay delivery for non-Prime users, but perhaps it is easier just to ship stuff out rather than sit on it.

My Prime expires on the 19th - there really is nothing keeping me subscribed and they failed to deliver several items next day anyway, so Ill not renew...

This thread has inspired me to cancel my Prime this morning.

The delivery part of Prime has gone down the toilet recently and needing something quickly was really the only reason to have it as I try and use smaller retailers for the majority of my purchases. Whether it's due to under-investment in infrastructure, supply chain problems or over-demand, it seems to be happening more and more that you'd have something ordered for next day, only for it to be pushed back to a couple of days then eventually updating with an estimated delivery time of "later in the month" essentially.

This is coupled with a demonstrable drop in their customer service quality has made shopping with Amazon a pretty miserable experience recently - certainly post-Covid.

The other thing for me is that Prime video seems to have suffered terribly recently. So many shows and movies have gone rent or buy only and the Prime movies and TV that aren't Amazon studios, seem to be absolute rubbish. There's just no sensible reason for paying £9 a month now.

I'm going to try other people's suggestions of using the lockers - these are far more convenient for me anyway as Amazon tracking is awful.

Will there be an even cheaper Prime Lite Student tier?

Just brought 4 items today on prime, one due next day the other Thursday, the other Friday and the other on Saturday. I thought the whole person was to bundle things together to make it more efficient fuelwise, plus it's inconvenient as I have to be in every day as opposed to one day. That's even if they actually ring the doorbell and hand it over to me as twice this year, delivery drivers have just left the package at the door.apartt from that tv shows aint bad. dont use anythign else though, thier music service is dire.