The ad tier will now be the default of the retailer's Prime membership, but subscribers can opt out of commercials by paying an additional $2.99 per month.
But just because you can see a “price” for shipping. That doesn’t mean that’s what it actually costs the company.
It is literally my job to write the code that queries the carrier (UPS/FedRx/Speedy/Etc) and generates a label and receipt. 99% of our clients fudge the “cost” that the end customer can see. The end customer thinks it cost $20 to ship their package but the API returned $6 from UPS.
We also offer rating so that their website can “calculate” a rate of $20 externally and $6 behind the scenes.
I mean ultimately someone is paying the shipping but I don’t see how it’s bad, or good.
In the Prime app, you can see how much you’ve saved with Prime over the last year… Looks like it will be cheaper for me to just cancel outright.
Oh.
I misinterpreted this, thinking it was showing me savings on shipping and such.
Instead, I think it’s referring specifically to savings on purchases that were Prime Exclusive Deals or maybe Prime Early Access.
Apologies for the wild goose chase.
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But just because you can see a “price” for shipping. That doesn’t mean that’s what it actually costs the company.
It is literally my job to write the code that queries the carrier (UPS/FedRx/Speedy/Etc) and generates a label and receipt. 99% of our clients fudge the “cost” that the end customer can see. The end customer thinks it cost $20 to ship their package but the API returned $6 from UPS.
We also offer rating so that their website can “calculate” a rate of $20 externally and $6 behind the scenes.
I mean ultimately someone is paying the shipping but I don’t see how it’s bad, or good.
Where do you find this in the app? I found a tally for what prime services I’d used, but no savings total yet….
In the app open your profile (1) and then your account (2):
Then scroll down to Account Settings to (3) Manage Prime Membership:
And scroll down to (4) Your Prime deals and discount savings:
This is what it looks like for me:
Interesting; I don’t have that last bit; just a list of how many of each service I’ve used, which you don’t seem to have.
I see those too if I scroll down further. I’m using this version on Pixel 5 with Android 14.
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I’m using the iOS version. Shouldn’t be a difference as it’s only a webpage, so it’s likely an account difference of some sort.
Maybe they only show the ‘savings’ when there’s data to show. I don’t see that either. Time for me to cancel too
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Interesting! I can’t find that on the mobile site, maybe I’ll find it in the desktop version…