We’ve talked about Amazon Prime Video, Amazon’s streaming service for movies and series, more than once here on Computer! There is a lot to consider with an Amazon Prime subscription. This is what an Amazon Prime subscription can offer you, as well as its drawbacks.
Tomorrow begins on Tuesday, October 13 Amazon Prime Day 2020. On this day you can score a large number of deals in the field of tech via the Amazon webshop. These deals are exclusive to Amazon Prime members.
The biggest disadvantage of Amazon Prime is of course that it costs money, because you pay monthly for this service. You can first use Prime for free for a month, but then you pay 5.99 euros per month. An interesting amount, because it is lower than both Netflix and Disney +. Moreover, Amazon Prime is not only the video streaming service, because that monthly six euros also includes a Prime subscription to the Amazon shopping platform and more. We will first explain what exactly.
Shopping with Prime
That Prime subscription to the Amazon online store means that you can get a lot of stuff (more than 1 million, recognizable by the Prime logo) that you buy on Amazon within 1 day in the Netherlands. Moreover, there are no shipping costs involved, which makes ordering one thing more attractive just as quickly. In addition, you get access to Lightning Deals half an hour earlier, which are kind of day deals from Amazon. You can also count on Amazon’s special Prime day Lightning Deals, exclusively for Prime members. Note: you do not shop on Amazon.nl (although that is also possible, but that mainly focuses on ebooks), but go to amazon.de/english. It is the German Amazon that is set up for the Netherlands, which is why the delivery of non-Prime packages usually takes 2 or more days.
Gaming with Prime
The other benefit is that you get free of it Twitch Prime can use. Twitch is a game streaming platform bought by Amazon where famous gamers like Ninja started their careers. With Twitch Prime, you get free game goodies and surprises. You can watch streams on Twitch without ads, you don’t have to pay money to subscribe to channels, and you get a discount on physical games on Amazon.
Save photos with Prime
In addition, you can also use Amazon Cloud Drive. It includes Prime and you can store unlimited photos on it. There is a limitation, namely that the video or documents may contain a total of 5GB. Amazon Prime Photos is primarily intended for snapshots. Unfortunately not for storing your own films and series.
Series and Movies with Prime
One of the best deals is that Amazon Prime comes with Prime Video included (or vice versa, it just depends on where you buy it). This Netflix-like streaming service has successful own series and films in its library, but also a lot of films and series from other movie houses. There is a lot to see in terms of content and Netflix may be the king of streaming services, Amazon Prime Video also has a library that takes months to get it all out. You can also use this service via the app on your smartphone, but also via the browser or special smart TV apps.
It’s a comprehensive bundle that Amazon Prime. So extensive that even Apple is now planning to offer a similar bundle that consists of Apple News +, Apple Music and Apple TV +. In the Netherlands, day delivery with Prime is a good move, because it is the way to ensure that online department stores such as Coolblue and Bol.com no longer have an advantage by being able to deliver everything from their warehouse in the Netherlands. Both stores still have that speed, but Amazon can still deliver very quickly to our country from Germany.
Cons
Although such a subscription is very useful, it also has disadvantages. One of the biggest drawbacks to Prime is that the 0 euro shipping costs ensure that you order earlier. That is positive for Amazon and useful for you, but not so sustainable. You can even have one tenner thing delivered for free. Another disadvantage of Prime in the Netherlands is that you cannot use Prime Music, for example, which American Prime subscribers do get for free. That service is not (yet) live in the Netherlands, which makes it inaccessible.
Another localization drawback is that when you, as a Dutch Prime user, shop in the store that is open to Dutch speakers, you notice that a lot is poorly translated or is German. That’s because the Dutch Amazon is a kind of translated version of the German Amazon, which is also supplied from. Sometimes it takes a while to struggle with a product description.
There is a lot to get out of Amazon Prime, so it’s not surprising that there are more than 100 million subscribers worldwide. Prime has been around in other parts of the world since 2005. What you can expect from the service depends a lot on your location. For example, Londoners have free delivery from Amazon’s restaurant delivery service if they order for over £ 15. And in America you have free one-day delivery on more than 10 million products. For many Dutch people Prime, just like Amazon in (semi-) Dutch, is still quite new. Whether you find the subscription worth discovering will mainly depend on your shopping behavior on Amazon and the extent to which you would like to watch the exclusive series and films on Amazon Prime Video.
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