24 January 2010

Raise your hand if this sounds familiar. Please, raise your hand.

I just realized I forgot to cancel my free trial of Amazon Prime before a month was up, costing me seventy-nine big ones.

Consolation:

- I now can get free 2-day shipping on all my Amazon purchases for a year.  

- The amount I saved by buying books online rather than the bookstore is still more than $79.

- $79, if you think about it, is really a pretty small price to pay to learn my lesson: cancel free trials in a timely manner.  I'm positive I won't have to relearn that lesson ever again.  Right?

- The pioneers had to pay annual fees of up to three or four times what we do nowadays for their Amazon Prime memberships.

- I beat "Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time" with my friends at the Nickelcade.  We blew up the Technodrome.


4 comments:

birdie said...

I will be making all of my Amazon purchases through you this year.

Hey, another bonus of people forgetting to cancel trials= Netflix.

Claire said...

cowabunga! :)

J McO (change later) said...

I'm raising my proverbial hand. I got a $400+ ticket in southern Utah (my three traffic tickets in the last five years have been issued in southern Utah) as I was entering Price. I didn't see the speed limit go down to 40 as I was doing exactly 71 -- 31 over the speed limit, barely making me a candidate for reckless driving and a mandatory court appearance - and I conjured up ample reasons to justify my losing $400 (it's only half of what I make in x amount of time, I've probably saved that much on the water bill by peeing outside, etc.). Turns out by going back to court I got it lowered to about $250. Nice.

birdie said...

The price you pay is always in the 70s.