While I agree that the
membership fee is a little on the
higher end, it is still better to pay a
slightly higher fee to talk to genuine local members as compared to paying a lower
fee and spend your time talking with fake profiles.
What seems most likely is that either Amazon withholds increasing its Prime
membership fees, or introduces a two tier approach, a
high end service including all the perks that current Prime members get and a
slightly discounted service at the base sans video streaming.