LOS ANGELES — “YES! About damn time.”
That’s what 28-year-old Ohio resident John Ryan Chaffin tweeted when he heard about Amazon’s new standalone video service on Sunday evening. Though he sees the yearly $100 fee for Prime as too much, the $8.99 monthly fee for just the video service makes sense.
“I’ve been hoping that they were going to do this since they first brought out Prime,” Chaffin, who currently subscribes to Netflix and has DirecTV, told Mashable. “Because I was so reluctant to put $100 down on a service when I didn’t know if I’d get my money’s worth out of it … [the video standalone] makes Amazon more attractive to someone like me who doesn’t order enough to care that much about free shipping.” Read more…
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