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Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? by amylene on Sunday February 23, 2020 @10:24PM (#22401385)
Huge selection, great customer service, saved credentials, 5% back on purchases, most stuff is one day shipping for me. I also know they fix problems pretty rapidly. I get a ton of entertainment from prime video.

Those are all things difficult to get consistently from a random web store.

Re:Which of these Amazon Prime purchases are real? by pas on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:58AM (#22402835)
> Huge selection

Agreed. The problem is that generally the descriptions are so useless it's hard to know what's actually what. (For example recently I ordered a case for a Kobo Forma e-reader, and it was impossible to know how it would actually fold, because there were a few pictures, no video, no schematics, nothing. And the description was similarly unhelpful. It worked out okay though.)

> great customer service

I found it impossible to even get in touch with them :o (I wanted to ask where my package is, but they just kept naming the shipping vendor - "Deutsche Post", no tracking ID, no link, no actual contact to the relevant department.)

> saved credentials

Every webshop so far does it, and usually smaller ones provide ability to use PayPal.

> 5% back on purchases

How does that work? It's either priced into the price of everything or others pay for it, no?