The thing is, everything on prime is rated 4 or 5 stars, then you look at imdb and see it’s real rating is like 3/10, which is abysmally low even for crappy movies.
Apparently prime video’s star ratings are as accurate as the amazon marketplace.
I wish streaming services would do like PBS. They run all their commercials and acknowledgements at the beginning of a program and then you have an uninterrupted show for the rest of the hour. Viewers can decide if they want to watch the commercials or take care of their before the program really starts.
Advertisers pay less for that type of commercial
Would it be less if that was the only option?! I am tired of advertisers determining my annoyance level.
It’s not the only option, and will never be the only option though. As time goes on, ads get MORE intrusive, not less.
I think there will be a provider that capitalizes on this, or people will simply shift further to stealing content.
well, all streaming services DO have an ad-free option, for all prerecorded content. Only live content has mandatory ads, which isn’t intrusive as if the ads weren’t there it’d just be a black screen since nothing’s going on. I don’t think forced ads will ever be a thing.
Though if streaming services start getting too expensive, torrenting will gain in popularity again.
My last 3 “prime” orders have been delayed. I am pretty sure if I go through all of the accounts of business and personal, about 20% are not delivered within the original prime membership commitment timeframe. They will put “Prime” on stuff with a week out expected delivery date, but if I order the same thing on a non prime account its the same delivery speed. Sigh.
That’s been going on for a while … rarely do we get something in 2 days any more. The new norm seems to be 5 to 7 days for Prime.
I purchased 3 things that were FBA on Sunday evening. I don’t have Prime and selected “Free Shipping” which was “promising” Friday. I got it Wed. 
Are you looking at the delivery date on the listing? It’s probably where I am but Amazon is never late and we normally get our stuff in less than 24 hours. But we also don’t order stuff that doesn’t have same day / overnight Prime attached to it.
This is Amazon’s new push if you are an FBA seller. If you don’t have months and months of inventory in the network, it’s 2 days or more for stated delivery, EVEN IF you look and see that a FC right next to you has plenty of inventory.
Amazon’s new way of punishing sellers (their coveted FBA sellers), in 2024. Started in Novemberish 2023.
Pretty sleazy. I’ve done a lot of testing / analysis of this with my seller accounts, inventory, and zip code searches on all devices (Desktop / Mobile / Mobile App). All 3 have a vastly difference search / organic rank / badging experiences. At one point, the experience among devices was unified, now, totally different and ever-changing, depending on the time of the day.
I find it quite interesting that searching from the same place offers varying results for the badging (Overall Pick / Popular Brand Pick). I’m not entirely sure how Amazon can justify the difference in regards to what’s in your hand or in front of your face (mobile / desktop).
Obviously there’s some magic AI going on here where depending on the device, X sells better so that’s what gets the badge. So really the badging isn’t done on price or merit or reviews so the consumer can make the right choice, it’s done on what makes Amazon more money. Shocker of the century.
I have noticed this too. The buy box will go to a seller with a higher price if you have insufficient inventory, likely because your low inventory level costs Amazon more money to fulfill the order.
I think this has to do with intra-FC locations as well, the more units you have in a FC the more bins your product is in, and the more efficient of a route they can assign the picker.
I never thought about this. You’re probably right. Pretty nuts how granular Amazon gets but it makes sense.
Just think about that… Amazon’s data is relating the customer to the FC (easy), and presenting results on time to home and badges based on how far away the product might be to pick and ship WITHIN that FC that ships to the buyer.
Mind Blown… 
If you think about it, some of these FCs are bigger than some towns, and it can really take a while to get from 1 side to the other.
Yes
We can not say they are never late but we can say that Amazon doesn’t always make the day of delivery promised at the time of purchase.
That would never happen here. Best for us was 2 day (48 hours) even though Amazon has a processing center 30 miles away. We are a small rural town and see Amazon deliveries to the area daily; however, most of the time the orders take on average 4 to 5 days to receive.
Our cordless phone battery just took a 
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$6.78 from Prime, Genuine Uniden battery. Just ordered it, only thing on the order. Will be here by 7AM.
As a seller, I can despise Amazon but as a buyer, it really is incredible.
Same for us. Sometimes if I order in the morning I can get stuff in 2 or 3 hours if it’s timed right, and if not it’s usually the same day if they have it in stock. Anything ordered after noon or so will be here the next morning early. I think we’re spoiled.
-Ana
This has been well known (as much as you can know these things) by booksellers for some time; the awarding of the BB is often based on whose product is closest to the buyer (realize that for books, most sellers have a total of 1 copy in FBA inventory). Although this kicks in only when the price is the same or at least fairly close.
What I’m talking about goes beyond that. I’ve seen instances where the BB was awarded to a higher price even with the same delivery estimate date. It happens more if the inventory level is lower. The bookseller “award by location” for a single copy makes a lot of sense, the instances I’ve seen make a lot less sense, but it fits into ASV’s theory of Amazon intentionally punishing sellers for not carrying “enough” stock as well as the possibility of some intra-FC optimization.
Seems to me to be the same thing. The BB will go with whatever seller is the easiest for Amazon to deliver. If your inventory is low (even without being down to 1), then it’s quite possible that the FC around the corner from your customer may not have it, but will have the same item from another seller; even if the FC 5 miles away is the reverse.
Not to say there might be other things going on, but that is at least consistent, and form the viewpoint of Amazon, seems to make sense.