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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by Someone1234 on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:11PM (#16187815)
If you don't mind waiting longer and have Prime, they often offer a "refund" credit. I currently have $5 in digital credits for items I didn't mind waiting a week for on Prime.

Only downside is that the incentive rotates and some of them are simply terrible (prime pantry, women's fashion, and home services for example).

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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by Chaebixi on Friday January 19, 2018 @02:20PM (#16188917)
In my experience, that "credit" is really just a promotion for some other service they're pushing. Now all the ones I could get are for prime pantry, which I'm never going to use.
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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by sp00ls on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:41PM (#16188097)
The problem I have with that is that the delivery time often goes past the week mark. If I'm going to wait over a week to receive the item I might as well just order from somewhere like banggood which also has free shipping and is usually a dollar or 2 cheaper. I don't really care about Amazon pantry or free digital downloads so that incentive doesn't provide any value to me.
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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by aidenn0 on Friday January 19, 2018 @12:17PM (#16187871)
a lot of incentives are terrible, and you can't use two of them on the same order. If I could delay 2 or 3 orders and then get a free digital movie by stacking the credits, I'd do it a lot more often.
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Re:Monthly Amazon Prime membership fees are about to increase by banderman on Monday January 22, 2018 @09:30AM (#16204556)
For digital movies/music the credits do stack.
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