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Don't forget, Subscribe and Save. Prime Pantry had a subscription service too, so people were very confused about what to do - Prime Pantry or Subscribe and Save - and what saves the most money. Also, with Subscribe and Save, it was and still is* confusing as to WHO the product is bought from. On low-profit price-flucting products (e.g. Case of Redbull), the price will differ AND sometimes it will be unavialable via the subscibed listing but if you searched for the item, you'd find it Prime from Amazon. The opposite also happens, when Amazon.com is clearly out of an item, yet somehow your subscribtion still makes it on time.

Honestly, just typing all that made me very confused.

At the end of the day, I don't care from who (as long as they're reputable) or how, just get me my product, in this price range, this many times per period.

*: I still use Subscribe and Safe for the 15% discount - a nice discount if 5 subscriptions are due in the same month.



> I still use Subscribe and Safe for the 15% discount - a nice discount if 5 subscriptions are due in the same month.

I have used Subscribe and Save for the better part of a decade, and I think there were maybe 2 times that my subscriptions lined up this way. I've tried delaying all non-essential subscriptions to get to the magic number, but in my family it almost never happens.


They've dropped it to 5% for just about everything. Diapers might be the only thing we still get 15%, but half the time they're out of stock anyway.




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