Amazon - very naughty - slapped wrist

Are you a Prime member?

Well, I've just found out that Amazon will shortly be including adverts in their Prime video movies.

If you don't like adverts in a paid for video service - then you will have to pay an additional 3 bucks a month to have the adverts removed.

To me, this is the same as the BBC showing adverts and still expecting me to pay the licence fee. Not on IMHO.

 

Surely the reason you subscribe to many things is to get it ad free, charging on top of the subscription to get it ad free seems to be a tunnel nobody but an idiot would go down.

I get the feeling Amazon prime will be losing customers, but then again, in these times of cost of living crisis there still seems to be millions with money to burn.

 

I don't have prime as we normaly have delivery's with in 2-3 days we don't want next day any way, as for prime tv i pay enough for the bbc licence and i don't want to pay extre for more rubbish to watch even the repete's of the repete's

 

I've bought from Amazon just before Christmas and I think its easier to buy now without inadvertently getting signed up for Prime, that said, they do still hassle you when it comes to checkout.

I did somehow get signed up to Prime without noticing a couple of years ago and ended up cancelling once the free month was up.
TBH I looked at the TV channel and there wasn't anything that interested me, at the time, mostly stupid Sci Fi films, or films with OTT special effects.

 

Its not just Amazon thats doing a two tier service, with or without adverts, all the streaming providers are going that way.
Disney+ are already two tier.

Might even happen with ITV and BBC in the future as more of their content goes online/streaming.

From what we have seen, they are not long 5min+ mutli ad breaks, but 30 second single ads so not as bad, though you cannot fast forward them !

 

Apparently, ads now account for 8% of Amazon's total annual revenue, so I can see this being the norm in the future.

Netflix offer three different packages, the cheapest being £4.99 a month but it's advert supported. We opted for the £6.99 a month package, advert free, but also because our daughter can access our subscription while she is at Lincoln Uni.

I am happy with Amazon and Netflix when you take into account the basic subscription for Sky TV is £26 a month.

 

Its happening 5th Feb.

 

I have prime mainly for i dont see why i should pay for extra p\p amazon prices are dear enough but i am thinking of stopping it had it over a year and most times now you dont get next day delivery like you use to
I dont watch movies etc even music most dont intreast me