Mildly Infuriating

Scamazon provides nothing of benefit.

Unfortunately, they are still the most affordable place to shop for many of the things I need. Our local walmart has the same treats for $1 more "on sale" and our local petsmart is $2 more. 💀

Nuts, seeds, and dried fruit are significantly more if I get them locally.

I have to pick one evil.

I mean, the top says “up to”, which technically means Amazon doesn’t even need to apply a discount. I would be more concerned if it said “save 25% today” and then dropped to “save 5% today.”

Plot twist, there's actually no way to get "up to 25%". It simply isn't a tier they offer for their subscribe and save option 😱

I'm not surprised to hear of strange happenings like that.

There were a few months several years ago were I'd randomly have like THOUSANDS of a single item added to my card. Stuff I'd never order, never wish list, and never searched for.

Sometimes my shopping card would have like $15,000 worth of stuff in it.

They couldn't explain it, and the mystery was never solved.

Like others have said, they don't guarantee two days shipping however. Their thing now is if you spend $x per order or pay more, even if you have prime, they'll overnight it (location dependent).

I live a 20 minute drive from several large amazon warehouses and one of their largest air hubs. When two day shipping was guaranteed, we'd often get most items the next day since it goes out almost immediately and we're very close. We noticed the last few years most deliveries take two days at least with many being delayed to 3 or 4.

Finding prime less and less of a value I cancelled at the beginning of this month as I was set to auto renew. We've ordered two things since. Both items we have received in the past in 1-2 days. Now they take 5-7 days for free shopping, which is fine mind you, but it shows me that rather than shipping the item they are intentionally holding back the order from being picked from the warehouse to create the delay.

Rather than prime adding value, it's simply providing the regular service, while they intentionally give non-prime members a manufactured worse service to entice them to pay.

Nothing else on prime is worthwhile. Thursday night football sucks and when I do want to watch it if my team is playing I'll just pirate it. Same goes for anything on prime like The Boys will just get added to the Plex server.

I keep hearing this thing about delivery.

I can say that personally here in Spain, of course it's a completely different place, the overnight 1 day shipping still works. Just saying that the enshittification is not global at least on shipping. Of course all depends where you are located and each product if they are prime or not, which hour you order it, etc... But the day they say is the day your receive it except some very very rare exceptions when there is a delay.

Of course that's just my experience in my town...

I don’t think two day shipping is an advertised feature anymore. Depending on where you live, I’ve seen ordering directly from manufacturers is the same or quicker than Amazon most of the time.

I think you need to add a certain number of shipments for it to reach the higher bands of savings.

Yes, they do things in tiers.

However, when I look at all the items available under "subscribe & save", there are only three tiers that I see: 5%, 10%, and 15% with most being 5% / 15%.

In the pet food section specifically, the discounts range from 0% to 10% with most being 5%.

Why would Amazon even tell me that I'll "save 25% today" on the item if that's never even achievable?🫠