PSA: Avoid Purchasing from Amazon.com if you are "simple"

[Dids]

It's clearly, clearly, clearly obvious what you're getting when you sign up for prime. Even if you consider it slightly underhanded and scammy, this has gotta be literally the oldest scam on the internet.

[Annorax]

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Dude, Amazon Prime = profit. You probably signed for it last year FOR FREE AS PART OF THEIR PROMOTION, and then they renewed it for you?

All I know is free 2 day shipping on almost anything you want for $79.00 / year is a great deal.

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I did the same, but had the presence of mind to disable the [censored]ing [censored] piece of [censored] auto-renewal. If you didn't shut that off during the original 3 month trial, you're kinda [censored].

Beat: you're out $79
Brag: I'm not
Variance: dunno

[[Phill]]

I always order from Amazon ahead of everything else - even in the rare cases it costs more (though we are talking a few £). Fwiw, ive never used Ebay and would only use it if i was a merchant, not a buyer (one day i might regret that statement, lol).

If you signed up for a 30day trial and then continued past that 30 days without cancelling your an idiot and deserve to be charged the tiny $80 fee which is clearly value for money anyway.

[SmokeyRidesAgain]

I scammed amazon out of $200+ of CDs, you're doin it wrong.

[Dids]

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I always order from Amazon ahead of everything else - even in the rare cases it costs more (though we are talking a few £). Fwiw, ive never used Ebay and would only use it if i was a merchant, not a buyer (one day i might regret that statement, lol).

If you signed up for a 30day trial and then continued past that 30 days without cancelling your an idiot and deserve to be charged the tiny $80 fee which is clearly value for money anyway.

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When I agree with this guy, you know you done [censored] up and are wrong. FYI

[Salerosa]

UPDATE

I just got off the phone with Amazon, and they are refunding my money. I asked them why I was charged, and the woman replied-

"We have had a lot of people sign up for the free trial and not cancel before they are charged after the free month."

I replied OK, but I am pretty sure I did not sign up for this trial, and she did not reply. I then directly asked her if I signed up for the trial and she said "it does not appear so." I asked how it was that I managed to get charged for this, and she said "I don't know."

So I feel vindicated, but the representative I spoke with was very helpful and courteous, and the situation has been resolved to my satisfaction- as a result I will do business with Amazon in the future.

So all is right in the Amazon world, businesses make mistakes, in the future I will give them longer to resolve the situation.

Or maybe I'll just become less poor so $80 doesn't matter as much to me.

[Blarg]

Hey, 80 bucks is good money, and so is the priciple of the thing. I've thought about deserting Amazon before, but actually this $80 amazon prime thing turned me around. It made them more like the company they started out as -- great quick reliable service. They have their faults -- they recently had a huge screw-up shipping some headphones to the wrong address and billing me twice, getting their own wires prodigiously crossed, etc. But they ironed it out. So even with the hassles, they're still a good company.

And some of their competition isn't anywhere near the quality anyway.

[edfurlong]

Yeah, their customer service is retarded good. Does prime still allow you to ship stuff to other addresses? I loved using it for last minute gifts.

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It lets me choose which of the bunch of addresses I want, when I'm in the check-out screens, so I'm guessing they must allow that.

[DING-DONG YO]

Op, you're a moran. Just call them and ask nicely that they remove it and they will. That's what I did.