There was a day when Amazon came up with a prime membership in the US in 2005. At that time online giant offers its member two-day free shipping as well as discounted shipping rates. The membership fee is also was just $79 annually at that time.
But a lot has changed since then. Annual Membership fees have reached to $99 annually with some additional attractive facilities like free access to a large music library, unlimited video streaming, photo storage and more.
Not only prices and facilities, but a number of prime members in U.S. also increased to double in past two years. According to Consumer Intelligence Research Partners. In March 2015, Amazon prime had around 40 million, which increased to 80 million at the end of March 2017.
mangustangus27 on April 29th, 2017 at 14:09 UTC »
A part of me is concerned by about this effective absolute monopoly, but inner me is so content with the convenience of Amazon, that I'm just ready to accept my new corporate overlord.
hill_kitler on April 29th, 2017 at 14:01 UTC »
According to Bezos' Law, every man woman and child in the United States will be subscribed to Amazon Prime by 2021
MidasGloves on April 29th, 2017 at 13:36 UTC »
There aren't many faults with Amazon with their fast delivery, cheapest prices, easy checkout, great customer service etc. So other ecommerce stores must be suffering, I mean unless you sell one of a kind products on your own website then theres no reason for people to go elsewhere but if thats the case then you're losing money by not selling on Amazon.
I get the only complaint really is I don't like the search filters/features all that much but that may just be me, although Amazon needs to tackle the problem of oversea Chinese sellers with long shipping times before that becomes a problem
edit: If I didn't have one click ordering turned off I would be exactly like this guy I guess thats another con, Amazon needs drunk buyer protection