So, who's cancelling Prime because of the Ads

djsim101

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566012#Comment_121566012

I cancelled my sub on this basis before I knew it wasn't affecting Ireland :-)

In saying that I was on the fence anyway about cancelling.

It is just not worth it anymore. I hate the way Ireland got screwed over, when compared to the UK flavour.

Madeoface

Yup. Cancelled too. Nothing on it worth watching. Only used for Xmas delivery.

AyeGer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566518#Comment_121566518

How are we screwed over?

I don’t like that sort of thing, that alone is good reason to cancel.

SteM

Look at the amount of items Amazon won't ship here. That and difference in video library between Ireland and the UK shows the Irish market is getting screwed over.

AyeGer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566756#Comment_121566756

I thought items held by Amazon were generally shipped here but some third party sellers won’t deliver to Ireland.

Regarding the Movies and TV shows I’d be interested in finding out how badly we are disadvantaged there in comparison to UK.

mykrodot

thanks for the reminder, I've just cancelled. I dont watch anything on Prime but the free shipping just encourages frivolous spending, which I don't need right now. I've actually started spending locally in shops and I am finding things cheaper than Amazon!

Occasionally Amazon wins by sheer convenience and having stuff that's difficult to source but its good to take a long break.

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566780#Comment_121566780

Amazon products are nearly always shipped here. Occasionally since brexit for large items you will have to buy in Ireland as there may be huge import duties, I usually hate this as there's a lot more chance of incompetency or something going wrong. It's incredible how Amazon still ships from the UK to here so cheaply and rapidly despite brexit.

Amazon Prime as it was was too good to be true - thousands of movies and boxsets all for free in HD instantly. It was obviously a bait and switch to lure customers at first and then hike the price or display ads.

Who says we were disadvantaged compared to the UK? I would imagine we got other stuff to make up for it. This has all the hallmarks of just a witchhunt against a big evil corporation that is literally a godsend and I have no idea what I would do without them. "Free delivery within 2 days is bad because it encourages frivolours spending", how stupid can people's complaints get.

ixoy

We get most things but we don't get the FreeVee service and we can't get Amazon groceries either.

q2ice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566961#Comment_121566961

Amazon Prime as it was was too good to be true - thousands of movies and boxsets all for free in HD instantly. It was obviously a bait and switch to lure customers at first and then hike the price or display ads.

Are you using VPN or something? There is definitely not thousands of movies on the app and which boxsets?

Most of the crap wouldn't be considered good enough to be shown on terrestrial television.

Amazon branded products may nearly always shop here but the amount of items that will not be delivered is growing all the time. There looks to be a lot more crap/knockoffs available too.

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121567124#Comment_121567124

No I am not dishonestly using a VPN to pretend I'm in a location I'm not.

If you think there are "definitely not" then I suggest you take it up with the various broadcasting regulators as thousands is Amazon Prime's own tagline.

None of what I have seen them putting out is "crap" that "wouldn't be considered good enough to be shown on terrestrial television". What the hell are you talking about.

https://www.primevideo.com

Name a single Amazon Prime show that "wouldn't be considered good enough to be shown on terrestrial television".

You're saying "most", well name a single one.

Mantis Toboggan

Just cancelled also, I'll see how it goes and might sign up again. The TV offering is rubbish, very few decent shows, poor app. Watch almost nothing on it, they've also lost the premier league rights.

Prime was handy for deliveries but it only prompted me to buy all kinds of tat that wasn't needed, also free delivery offered outside of prime.

marcbrophy

Any chance we can change the thread title or put a note in the first post, seeing as there's no changes for users in ROI?

People are just going to read the title and keep coming in saying they cancelled because of something that isn't happening!

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121556355#Comment_121556355

I think they offer you a pro-rata refund, not a full refund.

terryduff12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568022#Comment_121568022

It is happening got a email about the changes

SteM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568106#Comment_121568106

Did you read the full email? It says

Customers in the Republic of Ireland, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man won’t see ads in their experience at this time.

at the bottom.

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568148#Comment_121568148

Who would be dumb enough to cancel it based on a boards thread and ahead of even seeing if it would occur to them and what it would be like.

terryduff12

Took a minute, but yes you are correct. Assumed since we got the emails this late is was directly for Irish customers.

Dan Steely

Does that rider mean there is no ads in roi for all prime video or just the live sport part?

terryduff12

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TMwh2aig8aCv0WgwDL found this its a bit better worded

Dan Steely

I wonder how long "this time" will be.

q2ice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121567179#Comment_121567179

Here is one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison%20Ship

Haha! Your suggest suggestion of taking it up with the regulators is priceless. Why the f would I be interested in doing that.🤣 Especially as I doubt they even have "thousands of videos" as a tagline. Have you any proof of that?

ozmo

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121566198#Comment_121566198

Could it be the vat being added at the UK rate? When not logged in I see the lower UK prices. Thats to be expected as our vat+duty is higher.

animalinside

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568364#Comment_121568364

From your laughing smiley face I can see you're a really obnoxious person and we wouldn't get along. You might be interested in doing that if you wanted to report something as being wrongful, ie. make the world a better place. How is that a laughing matter? - don't answer, it's ok, it's a rhetorical question.

Amazon has it as their tagline as in literally if you search Amazon Prime on Google you will see a link to them saying it pretty fast.

Tork

Yes, I pulled the plug earlier. January isn't the wisest of months to announce something annoying like this. Like many people, our first winter gas and electric bills have just come in and the health insurance is up for renewal in a few weeks 😱. Even if you haven't gone mad spending money over Christmas, it's a month when people pay more attention to their bank balances and spending. When you start doing the maths and look at where you can save a few bob without any great pain, Prime is very easy to drop. It's not a particularly compelling streaming service anyway and you can look elsewhere if you want free content with ads. So for now it's goodbye. I have a feeling it won't be missed much here.

q2ice

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568425#Comment_121568425

I reported your post for abuse - which it clearly is and as such is wrongful. You are welcome! 😎

Thank you very much for agreeing that is is a laughing matter (by stating it was a rhetorical question - weirdly it is not)

If you find it pretty fast by searching google, how are you not able to provide any evidence? 😂

PeterDuggan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568072#Comment_121568072

Cancelled this morning and received a full refund.

JDxtra

Cancelled last night after I got the email. Got a pro rata refund.

Yes, in the small print it does say that ads are not yet coming to Ireland. But this was momentum that I needed to cancel.

We pay the exact same price as the UK for Prime, but don't get many of the "benefits" listed in their email. In fact, it really annoyed me that they could not even be bothered to exclude Irish based customers from the same generic email sent to UK customers.

For me, it's the weakest of the streaming services.

Anyways, £95/year (€110) then an extra £2.99 (€3.50) per month to remove ads (when the eventually arrive). That's €152/year. I don't bloody think so.

JDxtra

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121568148#Comment_121568148

You would think that one of the biggest tech companies in the world would be able to determine which country their customers are in, and then exclude them from an email that does not (yet) apply to them.

Some shower they are.

ixoy

Very poor form on the email given their tech background.

What should have been done is a reassuring email directly to Irish customers, Channel islands, etc that was brief and said only : You may have heard that ads are coming to Amazon Prime in the media. As a resident of Ireland this will not affect you yet and you will continue to be ad free. If this changes we'll let you know."

Shelga

Saw this thread first, then got the email about the ads the other day. I agree with others that it’s annoying that they can’t even be bothered to exclude Irish customers from an email which doesn’t even apply to them 🙄

I’m also going to cancel, and do an audit of all of my subscriptions, and my Sky package. Reckon I could easily save €50/month. Slightly off topic, but does anyone else find it incredibly annoying that you have to call Sky to remove items from your package? I signed up for one month of Sky Cinema, purely to watch May December, which wasn’t even as good as everyone was banging on about. Now Sky have charged me for a partial month, plus the next month, so €32 to watch one damn film. They’ll probably charge me for February now too as I have to give them 30 days notice. Absolute joke the way these companies treat their customers.