Amazon Faces Us Trial Over Alleged Prime Subscription Deceptions
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Amazon faces a US trial over allegations of deceiving customers into signing up for Prime subscriptions, with users sharing their own experiences of being misled by Amazon's checkout process.
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Although the default shipping is so bad sometimes I’m tempted to start the trial. I have something in my cart right now that has a shipping window a full month out. But if I start my prime trial they claim it gets here tomorrow? That has to just straight up be a lie right? With shipping that late I assume they don’t have the product locally- Or do non-prime members actually get that screwed on shipping?
It's a lie, and it doesn't even have to do with tariffs, though that won't help.
For over a year, with Prime, I'll search for something. Common things, nothing esoteric.
And I'll find a bunch of results. And it sure would be nice if I could get that thing soon, for whatever reason.
So I'll click the "Get it Tomorrow" filter. And the results will change.
And no matter what, there's almost never any of those results where I will actually "Get it Tomorrow". Indeed, as you say, so many of those things are not even the old standard "2 day Prime Shipping" (which of course they changed to mean "2 days after we ship it, which may not be for several days").
In between that and the fact that Amazon is undoubtedly the largest peddler of counterfeit merchandise in the country... fuck'em.