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This is the main reason I cancelled Prime. They started advertising "More than just free shipping", and I realized that I only used it for free shipping, and as Prime got more and more expensive I wasn't getting any value from it.
Now I just put stuff in my cart until I have $35 worth of stuff, and get free shipping anyway. It's not that much slower. An extra day or two usually, and it doesn't bother me one bit. I can wait a little while for my $10 guitar strap and it's not the end of the world.
I just stopped shopping at amazon altogether. My online shopping experience has improved a lot since then.
I also cancelled prime. It rapidly became clear that they were, and are, deliberately delaying my shipments by like 5 days or more. They don’t even ship my orders until at least 3 days after I place them.
I notice the same thing. I think it's because they are busy moving it from a distant warehouse to one closer to you, because you can't possibly keep all of the same crap in all of the warehouses. So it's being transported, but not "shipped", allowing them to take longer.
I started the same thing earlier this year when my subscription to Prime was expiring. So far it really hasn’t been a big problem and has the nice perk that it encourages me to shop less at Amazon.
It used to be $25. Now it's $35, waiting for them to raise the threshold further.