Comment by __jal

Amazon has been feeling downmarket for a long time.

* You can't trust them for entire categories of products.

* You can't trust them, period, about pricing. The amount of effort they've spent ensuring comparison between very similar items is as hard as possible is kind of amazing; discriminatory pricing: this doesn't require explanation; Their relentless efforts to shove certain products at me just started to annoy me at some point.

It all combines to erode any trust I once had in them; they're apparently no more concerned with ensuring I don't feel ripped off than someone selling junk off the back of a truck.

* Their recommendation engine is occasionally funny, but otherwise utter crap, and just takes up space.

I finally cancelled Prime at the beginning of this year, and after a couple minor adjustments, it was no big loss. I still buy books from them when I can't find them elsewhere.

Otherwise, eh. I just don't like them and don't need them.