They did for 48 hours or so in September (or October) when they first launched it in the UK. You could get the Echo for £99 if you were a Prime subscriber IIRC for that limited time period only.

Is it just me or is there an echo in here

What are you on about. It works just fine especially with Spotify, TuneIn, etc.

You say you never even opened it how can you say it doesn't do things then try compare it to an item not even available on the UK market.

Erm, they did though. Really. We all saw it.

Very good i paid 45 last week from argos cause i had 5 quid voucher nice xmas present.
Im told you can save upto 250 songs on this by cloud is this what the advert is when they say alexa play ---- playlist or is this amazon? As ill like to use this with out paying for this and that if poss? Thanks

you can upload 250 songs for free to amazon cloud to play back on echo

You get access to 2 million songs if you subscribe to Prime. Or 40 million, if you pay £3.99 per month via your Echo....plus free access to Tunein, RadioPlayer, etc.

Hoping 200 on amazon for black fri

download Amazon Music from amazon to pc

So John Lewis have played their hand I wonder if Amazon will go any better?

Could be tempted by the Dot
Thanks OP