Amazon Prime

[Schneed10]

Nice. Also Prime now gets you 20% off all new video games. Time to stock up for my PS4.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

Nice. Also Prime now gets you 20% off all new video games. Time to stock up for my PS4.

Yup, love that. I just picked up Uncharted for $35. Last week I got Sleeping Dogs for $19.

[mredskins]

I got bloodbourne for 20

[mredskins]

Any one have the echo? Thinking about getting it for my wife.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by mredskins

Any one have the echo? Thinking about getting it for my wife.

We have one. Got it on super deal around Xmas. Pretty cool. It's defintely first gen though. Works very well with voice recognition and has some handy features but you can really tell that it is only reaching the tip of its potential. I'll be excited when they can get multiple devices to sync over wifi. That would allow you to play music throughout the home. That is supposedly high on the list of features they're working on for the next gen.

[That Guy]

so i mail ordered some food from jet on sunday, got here today. i don't know why mail ordering gatorade 2 day fedex from new jersey is 40% cheaper than buying it locally, but... yeah.

the selection is very hit or miss, and so is the pricing, it's either pretty/really good or terrible, but everything i got was cheap and showed up on time w/o issue.

[Chico23231]

anybody have a problem with amazon charging double and refunding stuff...is that normal?

[TheMalcolmConnection]

I haven't, but their customer service is amazing. One thing we've found funny is that if you order something around $15-$20 and you realize you want to return it, they just let you keep it. It seems like the cost of the return is more than what they want to deal with. I'd say we have at least $100+ worth of stuff laying around we wanted to return and they said just to keep it.

[metalskins]

Amazon is definitely a great place for ordering PS4 games! Now if I can just find time to play those games!

[BDBohnzie]

Prime is worth it for sure. Free 2 day shipping, which sometimes is next day depending on which warehouse has it relative to where you are. Video streaming is great as well. Kindle Borrowing, which I haven't gotten into yet. Echo is on the list as a next tech purchase, may get the echo and dot together.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by BDBohnzie

Prime is worth it for sure. Free 2 day shipping, which sometimes is next day depending on which warehouse has it relative to where you are. Video streaming is great as well. Kindle Borrowing, which I haven't gotten into yet. Echo is on the list as a next tech purchase, may get the echo and dot together.

I have an echo, and I love the things it can do, from lights to thermostat, to excellent radio sound, to someone add to my grocery list and having it on my phone screen right away,
BUT
Alexa is just plain DUMB. Ask Alexa anything and you just picture this lady sitting in a chair with a thousand books and then throwing her hands up in the air and saying, "I'm not sure about that". Ask Google on my phone, the same question, it's like Sherlock asking Watson something, Bam answered quick and correctly. It's a running joke in my house, when we want to know anything other than the most basic info - weather, top news, movie casts.

I probably will convert over to the Google home mini, and use the echo as mainly a speaker

[BDBohnzie]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

I have an echo, and I love the things it can do, from lights to thermostat, to excellent radio sound, to someone add to my grocery list and having it on my phone screen right away,
BUT
Alexa is just plain DUMB. Ask Alexa anything and you just picture this lady sitting in a chair with a thousand books and then throwing her hands up in the air and saying, "I'm not sure about that". Ask Google on my phone, the same question, it's like Sherlock asking Watson something, Bam answered quick and correctly. It's a running joke in my house, when we want to know anything other than the most basic info - weather, top news, movie casts.

I probably will convert over to the Google home mini, and use the echo as mainly a speaker

I got the echo and a dot for my birthday and so far it's been fine. The kids are having a slightly hard time with it for those reasons...you have to teach Alexa everything, whereas Google Assistant has Google as its fingertips. I need to dig more into Alexa's skills but so far I've hooked up Spotify and Phillips Hue to it and it's worked well.