Amazon members are canceling their $140 Prime membership after shocking discovery

Amazon users are canceling their Prime memberships aft discovering that shopping connected the platform is cheaper without the $139 service.

A pistillate precocious shared her acquisition astir sending a person an Amazon nexus for drill bits to find if they were right.

'He says 'Yeah get them, they're lone $12.' I'm looking connected my extremity and it shows $16,' she said successful a TikTok video.

The revelation came erstwhile she learned her person was not a Prime member.

'He gets a discount connected the products. I person to wage additional,' she continued.

'I thought my Amazon Prime rank covered the two-day shipping. But it does not. I find that to beryllium fraudulent.'

The video, which has much than 100,000 comments, was flooded with radical saying they person canceled their Prime for that reason.

'I virtually person been debating astir canceling my Amazon Prime this is the motion I needed,' 1 idiosyncratic commented.

While different claimed to person canceled theirs portion watching the video.

Amazon's website states that 'Prime members get escaped two-day shipping connected millions of items, and escaped one-day shipping connected much than 15 cardinal items,' but immoderate consumers person suggested that the shipping costs are baked into point prices.

One idiosyncratic commented connected the video that buying without Prime is cheaper due to the fact that 'when you walk implicit $25, it's escaped shipping.'

Other Amazon members shared frustrations astir their orders not arriving wrong the promised two-day delivery.

'Once I realized my purchases did not get successful the clip stated I canceled,' different idiosyncratic shared.

In the comments of LoveTheLawrences_ video, immoderate suggest the pricing contented could beryllium the adjacent people enactment suit against Amazon.

Amazon was deed with a people enactment suit this twelvemonth that accused the e-commerce elephantine of failing to conscionable its stated 'guaranteed' transportation for immoderate purchases.

However, a Seattle justice dismissed the lawsuit successful June citing that the lawsuit had not shown however Amazon's transportation practices would interruption Washington's user extortion law.

The suit said Amazon met a transportation day for a acquisition but missed the four-hour model the user picked for their package's arrival.

'It is not unfair oregon deceptive for Amazon to neglect to abide by promises it did not make,' Evanson wrote.

But Amazon is inactive facing ineligible troubles with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which accused the institution of deceptively enrolling millions of online shoppers into the e-commerce giant's Prime work without their consent and making it hard for them to leave.

The FTC accused Amazon past twelvemonth of utilizing 'manipulative, coercive oregon deceptive user-interface designs known arsenic 'dark patterns' to trick consumers into enrolling successful automatically renewing Prime subscriptions.'

Amazon has denied immoderate wrongdoing successful the lawsuit, which besides names 3 of its elder executives arsenic defendants.

'The 3 idiosyncratic defendants, whose lives person been upended by the FTC's baseless and unjust allegations, are peculiarly anxious to spot those allegations fail, and immoderate hold further prejudices them,' Amazon said successful a

Amazon said successful a filing past period opposing the FTC's petition to propulsion the proceedings backmost to July 2025.

The suit is among respective national and authorities authorities actions challenging Amazon's concern practices.

The FTC past twelvemonth accused Amazon successful an antitrust suit of abusing its marketplace power, successful portion by curbing the quality of its sellers to connection amended prices connected different platforms.