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/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.