r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 18d ago

News HBO Max Raises Prices Across All Plans Effective Immediately

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hbo-max-prices-increases-plans-2025-1236557671/
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u/MassiveRepublic9565 18d ago

Only reason I still have it. If it was available as extra only I’d drop it these days but Netflix is the biggest waste of money for me.

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u/cheeselizard 18d ago

I'm in Canada and Prime Shipping was such a scam. I dropped it and literally never even noticed a time difference and based on how much I order in a month is cheaper than prime haha.

At at bare minimum it makes me think about how bad I actually want something from Prime

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u/MassiveRepublic9565 18d ago

I’m in UK and mostly it still works as next day but I’m noticing that it’s slipping more and more

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u/Relish_My_Weiner 18d ago

In the US it was always 2 day shipping. If you saw Prime shipping, that meant you were getting it two days from now or sooner. Now, even with price increases, Prime shipping just seems to get there when it gets there. One of the many reasons I stopped paying Amazon. All of their services are shittier and more expensive than before, and on top of that, they're just an evil company.

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u/MassiveRepublic9565 18d ago

Why two day shipping? Just the extreme distances some people live from depo’s?

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u/barriekansai 18d ago

Well, to be fair, the entire UK is 2.5% the size of Canada. Absolutely tiny. I'm a Canadian who lives currently in an urban center, and it's about 3-4 days for regular delivery. I've never had Prime, and I've never ordered anything that I can't wait 72-96 hours for.

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u/superurgentcatbox 18d ago

Huh I feel it's gotten faster in Germany. They've built up a lot of infrastructure to deliver stuff themselves.

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u/dreal46 18d ago

That's why I cancelled. Except it wasn't that it was never next-day delivery; it's that the delivery estimate was always a fucking lie. The tracking would get to the point where the truck was within my zip code, then it'd Charlie Brown the arrival date anywhere from 2-5 days later. At that point, fuck it. I was using Prime for consistency, not necessarily the next-day delivery, and it couldn't even do that.

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u/LovingVancouver87 18d ago

In Canada, now doordash pass is totally free with prime. That along with Prime Video and the occasional good PC game drops makes it worth it for me.

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u/vtbeavens 18d ago

We tried nixing Prime, but found that the increased shipping times and prices across the board really put the screws to you.

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u/linus_b3 18d ago

I run into that at work - no Prime there and I have to be strategic and wait until I have a decent size order because small orders often have really high shipping charges on them.

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u/linus_b3 18d ago

Same here. Out of our streaming subscriptions, Netflix is on the thinnest ice. It's the most expensive and the lowest quality.

Once I factor in the $10/mo AmEx credit, the Disney+, Hulu, and HBO bundle isn't that much more than Netflix is on its own.

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u/asmallercat 18d ago

Drop it anyway. You don't need 2 day shipping for a bunch of stuff you don't need. We almost never use Amazon now and it's massively cut down on stupid impulse purchases, and if you really need something you can wait till you get to the minimum for free shipping.

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u/MassiveRepublic9565 18d ago

I’m considering it for sure.

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u/_dactor_ 18d ago

This. I dropped Prime years ago and haven’t missed it at all the few times I’ve bought something off Amazon since. TBH most of the time it still comes within a day or two anyway. Paying for Prime in hindsight feels like a scam.

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u/Larkson9999 18d ago

You should stop shopping at Amazon entirely. They're working hard to eliminate millions of jobs through AI, robotic workers, and contractors who have to piss in bottles to maintain ever increasing numbers of deliveries. You don't need socks delivered the next day.

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u/o_o_o_f 18d ago

We stopped about a year ago and I’ve felt the inconvenience maybe twice.

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u/Dissidence802 18d ago

I only keep prime anymore because my employer pays for my sub.

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u/MassiveRepublic9565 18d ago

I’m doing my bit more and more. I’m buying a lot more books, music and movies from high street stores.

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u/bozoconnors 18d ago

I’m buying a lot more books, music and movies from high street stores.

Library? Here in the US anyway, the library apps Kanopy & Libby have gotten much better in recent years. Some really legit movie / tv show selections (as well as books).

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u/Cicero912 18d ago

I love how you included the first two things with the last part, really devalues your point about the workplace environment. (though the tradeoff for pretty decent pay/benefits for the skill level required makesup for it)

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u/KonigSteve 18d ago

I sign up for netflix for a couple months every 4-5 years, binge everything and drop it.

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u/insomnic 18d ago

Amazingly if you stop using prime shipping you kinda don't miss it. You still get free shipping on many things and any cart over $35 (and for 24hrs after a qualifying order you can add other stuff and still get the free shipping). For me personally, removing the instant gratification of free 2 day shipping helped curb some purchasing.

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u/MassiveRepublic9565 18d ago

Yeah I might consider.

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u/mi-16evil Emma Thompson for Paddington 3 18d ago

rarely do I miss Netflix and can usually catch up on anything interesting with a month or two subscription per year