No, they are not free without Prime. The whole point of Amazon Prime is that for the annual fee you pay, you get free access to the films and tv series which are on Prime. Prime is a streaming subscription service like Netflix and it's one service Amazon offers for your Prime membership.
I guess they are just free to everyone subscribed or not then.
I have not come across that, but then I don't tend to browse for stuff outside of my Prime membership. Got an example ?
I only have Prime in Germany. When I checked these titles on amazon.uk, without a Prime account Buckaroo Banzai is £3.49 to rent and episodes of the Dune mini series are £1.89 each.
Do you have a Free To Me tab on your tablet?
Interesting.
Just did that and bought it! Had to cancel!
Huh?
It means it used to be £3.49 to rent but right now it's free.
Not for me without my UK Prime account, it stays at 3.49 when I click on it.
Humm, maybe I have a £5 credit with prime or something that I can't see? I did have a £10 one a while back, but I spent it. I'm also on a free prime trial again so maybe that affects it? I don't know, but I did see another poster post up a while back about a series that was reduced to £0 for the series (but still a coupe of quid per episode) and I saw exactly the same on my account.
So at no point did you see the film for free as in my screen shot above?
no, not at all. Never seen that. I get loads of offers for cheap films for £1.99 but they're offered in strands. Have compulsively bought quite a few of those and not watched them.
Because you give them money?
I do, but so very very little. I'm certainly not a power customer and I never buy anything expensive. Most expensive thing in my basket was a laptop stand for £30. I popped it in my basket because there was £3 off, but then didn't buy it. When the £3 off vanished, I took it out and put it into 'save for later'. About half an hour later I was informed that there was a flash sale and I could buy it for £19 if I did so in the next 20 minutes. I did. I also used a £10 voucher that they inexplicably gave me when I complained that I had clicked on a free prime subscription earlier than I would have liked.
Well it works for me when they take a whole tenner off a £30 product and make it cheaper than all the young pretender imitations.
So basically something in my on line interactivity with amazon triggers them to do better sales with me? I did think it was odd that any Doctor Who DVD I showed any interest in dropped in price by about £3-5 after I looked at it.
Interesting. I gave it a swerve because it had such bad reviews.
I never take any notice of reviews, firstly because they may contain spoilerage (you know what I'm like!), and secondly because critics don't actually fucking make anything themselves, so I see them as pointless opinionated knobbers.
