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I can't be arsed to look this up, but what's the client for this? Is it it's own app on stuff, direct downloads, or what?

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I can't be arsed to look this up, but what's the client for this? Is it it's own app on stuff, direct downloads, or what?


You can stream from a browser and there are dedicated apps for things like the PS3.


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The PS3 Lovefilm Instant app quietly updated to Amazon Prime Video on my dashboard last week. It has a lot of the same content as Netflix, sadly.

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It's the second best thing ever!

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Mimi and Duck. Quack!

Mimi and Duck. Quack!

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Should have said 'Prime Duck'.

Bus + Autocorrect = :shrug:

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Should have said 'Prime Duck'.

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The only place I can recall being made aware of the word fiduciary is in one of the songs in Mary Poppins, with the old partners of the Doors Tomes Moseley Grubbs Fidelity Fiduciary Bank.

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(I've capitalised those as I have always like to assume that they are the names of the old men).

Mr Banks is going to be made a partner. Maybe there will be a Banks and a Mr Bank. Bank Banks.

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I would also like to spend my tuppence on feeding the birds, not invest it is the bank.

You know what birds I like?

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I am compelled to skip Feed The Birds as it makes certain people very sad.


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Shhh... we've come full circle, and nobody need ever know I messed the thread up.

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I am compelled to skip Feed The Birds as it makes certain people very sad.

Who does it make sad? Is it you, Davpaz? That's OK, we all love and respect you.

Someone at work won't talk to me about cartoons now in case I have another mental breakdown and run away because I've started to recall the plot of Watership down and can't handle the subject matter.

That' a great legacy to have in the office.

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Feed the birds, tuppence a bag. Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.

Is it because when the camera returns later to the step, after Mr Banks has lost it, the old lady is not there any more.

She's not dead. She's just gone to the eel and mash shop. That's what cockneys eat. Ask Dick Van Dyke, the most cockney of all the cockneys.

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No, wait - eel and liquor. Pie and mash.

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Mashed liquory eel pie.

Omnomnom.

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Have you been drinking, Mimi?

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Has mimi been drinking?

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Given that I have accidentally renewed Prime recently.
tell them you want a refund for unused prime then! There's a nice easy button on the website!

I might do that actually, could do with £30.


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Has mimi been drinking?

edit: heh.

No :(

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 Post subject: Re: Amazon Prime
PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2014 12:40 
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Hi,

I am a Prime member and I pre-ordered South Park : The Stick of Truth on Thursday 6 March 2014 11:25 (approx) for "£28.00 (or less)".

The UK release date for this game was Friday 7 March. I expected Prime to deliver it on the release day using 'Release Day Delivery', as that is what the text during the checkout process seemed to suggest. Usually placing any order with Amazon Prime before 12am gives enough time for to be delivered next day. After 2pm or so it usually means next-next-day. Therefore I would have accepted delivery on Saturday the 8th (today) as being acceptable, but only because I only placed the order on Thursday.

However the item _still_ wasn't marked as despatched this morning! I want to play the game on my 4-day weekend using holidays from work and so I've been forced to cancel that Prime order and pay the premium price of 39.99 from a digital download service (Steam). (Other options would have been a lengthy trip into town buy a physical copy from a game-shop, or more likely, a very large supermarket).

I would have expected, on release day, an apologetic email from Amazon explaining the delay.

Now if I go to the Amazon page for a PC copy of the game I see that
a) It is now £30 for a Prime order, which is an increase of £2
b) It will take 1 TO 3 week to deliver!

That 3-week proviso was _NOT_ around when I ordered and was definitely not communicated to me since placing my order. I have no idea if that is only applicable to orders placed today or if it was also applicable to my order because Amazon has told me nothing about the delay. I assume, given the delay, that it applies to my order.

I have incurred an extra £11 financial cost and, due to the delay of playing the game, mental anguish and the loss of a social talking point. On the other hand, Amazon have incurred a loss in Prime's reputation in the minds of myself, my friends and my colleges as I will communicate to all of them how useless Prime is when that speedy delivery is actually needed, especially now that it comes with a basic and expensive version of LoveFilm which I don't really want. They've all been asking is Prime useful, I guess the answer I tell them will be no?

Some questions:

a) When did Amazon realise the delivery of the game would be late?
c) When were Amazon planning to tell me that my pre-ordered game, which claimed release-day delivery, was going to be up to 3 weeks late?
c) Why am I paying for Prime if I can't get proper delivery when I need it?
d) Do Amazon feel the £11 premium (+ mental anguish) was worth the loss in Prime's reputation? Is there any financial compensation Amazon could offer? That might restore this balance?

Thank-you for your time,
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Sure, I completely over egged the pudding -- Really, I was not 'forced' to buy from Steam at that £11 premium, I can easily wait, and there is not the slightest bit of mental anguish. Infact I didn't need to send the email at all (though the extra £11 sucks -- I imagine if I ordered a few days before-hand I would have gotten a copy just fine?). I just want to try and get some free money out of them. What will I get? £0? £11? £28? £30? A months worth of prime?

(also, "accepted as acceptable"? I should wait longer after getting up before writing things)

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I'd suggest that pudding is so over-egged it might be more honestly referred to as an omelette ;)

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You'll get a free month of Prime. Last time I just pressed the button saying it was late and they automatically added it on.

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We ordered some stuff at 5pm yesterday and city link delivered it at twenty to eight this morning. Which was pretty good.

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I don't understand the question.

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12am

That's night-time.

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Grim... wrote:
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12am

That's night-time.

Technically, 12am and 12pm don't exist, seeing as midnight and midday are the changeover point between night and day. 12:00:01am would be correct, though.

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12am

That's night-time.

Technically, 12am and 12pm don't exist, seeing as midnight and midday are the changeover point between night and day. 12:00:01am would be correct, though.

Technically, you have a PC.

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12am

That's night-time.

Technically, 12am and 12pm don't exist, seeing as midnight and midday are the changeover point between night and day. 12:00:01am would be correct, though.

Technically, you have a PC.


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12am

That's night-time.

Technically, 12am and 12pm don't exist, seeing as midnight and midday are the changeover point between night and day. 12:00:01am would be correct, though.

Technically, you have a PC.

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I don't understand the question.


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I'd suggest that pudding is so over-egged it might be more honestly referred to as an omelette ;)


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You'll get a free month of Prime. Last time I just pressed the button saying it was late and they automatically added it on.


They told me to fuck off. They claim that when I ordered it it had the giant, red, "will be 3 weeks late" crap that's there now. DID IT HECKERS LIKE.

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Haha, amaze!

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I'd imagine that a free month of Prime is going to be a lot rarer these days now that the price has gone up so much.

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Called Amazon today to confirm that you can’t separate the Amazon Video from the Prime next day service.

I pointed out to the guy that the Video stuff is crap and that according to Amazons own research people with Prime accounts spend much more that those who don’t have them.

I told him that I wasn’t renewing whilst they were effectively forcing me to subscribe to something I don’t want, it’s not a service that’s even related to the core next day delivery one

He said that unsurprisingly they have had loads of feedback to this effect, and were looking into it


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If they didn't do a u-turn on this I'd be amazed.

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Perhaps, there will be a prime and a prime+

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Perhaps, there will be a prime and a prime+

Prime and Sub-Prime.

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It's a mess coming the other way as well i.e. as someone who's a Lovefilm customer but who never had what was Amazon Prime. If I go to the Lovefilm website it redirects me to "Amazon Prime Instant Video" with a load of films I can watch and instructs me to look for the Prime logo to know what I get as part of my subscription. However, under the My Prime drop-down at the top of the page it says I can "Upgrade to Prime" which gets me free one-day delivery and that doing so gets me access to Prime Instant Video. Which I already have, maybe? Also, I can only watch some films for free and would need to pay for other ones because those have the "Amazon Instant Video" logo and not the "Amazon Prime Instant Video" logo. But isn't Prime supposed to denote superior services so why doesn't a Prime account get me non-Prime stuff?

So, what does 'Prime' actually refer to and what am I getting and what would I need to pay extra for and why? I almost, sort of, know the answer to those questions from fucking about on their site and reading everyone else's chat here but someone like my mum would've just given up and fucked off ages ago. Hell, I'm looking forward to even Mrs B's next foray into what she still thinks of as Lovefilm because she'll just lose it with this nonsense.


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If they didn't do a u-turn on this I'd be amazed.

Did they do one in the US?

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If they didn't do a u-turn on this I'd be amazed.

Did then in the US?

I don't think so, but the price went from $79 to $99 in the US, whereas it's gone from £49 to £79 here.

http://www.latimes.com/business/money/l ... 2979.story

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Perhaps, there will be a prime and a prime+

Prime and Sub-Prime.


Standard Prime and Optimus Prime.


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Perhaps, there will be a prime and a prime+

Prime and Sub-Prime.


Standard Prime and Optimus Prime.

That joke was made way back, in the topic's subtitle.

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British Nervoso wrote:
Trooper wrote:
British Nervoso wrote:
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Perhaps, there will be a prime and a prime+

Prime and Sub-Prime.


Standard Prime and Optimus Prime.

That joke was made way back, in the topic's subtitle.


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Trooper wrote:
British Nervoso wrote:
Trooper wrote:
British Nervoso wrote:
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Perhaps, there will be a prime and a prime+

Prime and Sub-Prime.


Standard Prime and Optimus Prime.

That joke was made way back, in the topic's subtitle.


:insincere: I'll make my apologies to the person who started the thread.

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