Why I’m never signing up for Amazon Prime -- The Verge

It's Prime Day 2017, which is Amazon's now-annual midsummer deals bonanza designed to entice the few of us that are left without a Prime subscription to sign up. as if being admonished for their insolent cost, and replaced with marginally more affordable ones. Delivery is free, unlimited, and same day in a lot of places. It’s open buffet season on consumer goods, and Amazon has that Prime ticket dangling in front of our ravenous faces. Only I’m not taking the bait, not today and probably not ever....
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/11/15951108/amazon-prime-dependency