Europe Now Pays More for Amazon Prime; Bad News For America?

That said, Amazon's latest move might have many of you warming up your fingers, getting ready to do some cancellation-clicking, because we've learned that the mega-retailer has just hiked the price of Prime in Europe. An annual subscription in the UK jumped from £49 to £79 ($131) and from €29 to €49 ($67) in Germany. The ostensible reason for the overseas hikes is that Amazon has bundled Lovefilm, a previously stand-alone video-streaming service, into Prime and thinks it adds enough value to warrant a higher cost.
Since these price hikes are tied to the combining of services and, in the US of A, we already have our video bundled with our Prime, we should be safe from any price hijinx, right? Well, perhaps. Amazon's domestic video streaming options are generally considered to be scant and/or unsatisfactory, but if the site super-charged the content so that it's as good as Lovefilm supposedly is, Amazon may similarly feel that the service is worthy of a higher cost.
Of course, the other way to view this situation is to assume that the higher prices in Europe are setting a bad precedent, and it's only a matter of time before Amazon turns its price-enlarging ray on services in the US. There's also the third way to look at it, which is that we could all save a bit of money by moving to Germany, where the new "higher" price is still $12 less than it currently is in America. (Ich möchte Amazon Prime, bitte!)
What do you think? Is the hike in Europe an omen of a price jump here in the states, or do you think that one has nothing to do with the other? Tell us your opinions in the comments below, bitte!
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Verminator.
So it is no longer speculation for me.
Unless they are going to do something else to increase the value (more prime TV & Videos) or ditch the "add on" program most likely I am gone in 2015
I can see my time enjoying free shipping coming to an end, and a price increase will certainly hasten it.
That said, I'm almost certain they will raise the price as that's what all indications seem to be.
I'll just spend more time on Dealnews when that happens to find my own discounts!!!!!