Amazon Prime Membership program includes exclusive access to the best of shopping and entertainment with free shipping, unlimited streaming of movies, TV shows and music, exclusive shopping deals and selection, ad-free music and more. If you have not taken the Amazon prime membership yet, it is time that you invest in the prime membership right away.
The membership will also give you access to special deals and launches during the Amazon Prime Day Sale, that is scheduled to start on July 26, and end on July 27, Amazon also offers the facility of free trial for its Prime membership. How to get Amazon Prime membership? You have successfully cast your vote Login to view result. Read Post a comment. Characters Remaining: That was then.
You may be surprised by some of today's best Amazon Prime benefits -- besides free two-day shipping and quickly becoming one-day, same day and in some locations, one-hour shipping. Take a look at 36 of these perks that surround the free shipping of Amazon Prime, plus one big change that may make you angry or in this case hangry at Amazon's Whole Foods division for new delivery fees. Free two-day shipping is so , the year Amazon launched Prime. Today's Amazon Prime is all about getting more stuff to members at an ever-faster pace as Amazon builds more distribution centers above all its recent efforts to speed up free two-day delivery to free one-day delivery ; I've recently started getting several Amazon-shipped items in one day, free; the order defaults to one-day at checkout.
Now there's this: Free same-day delivery. It doesn't apply everywhere, mind you, but more than 10, eligible cities and towns mostly major metropolitan areas will cover a lot of people. If your zip code, which you can check out right here , offers same-day service, when you order before noon and choose the same-day shipping option at checkout, Amazon says the package will be delivered by 9 p.
If you order past noon, an option is next-day delivery. Talk about instante gratification! Amazon's Prime Now service delivers the grocery goods to Prime members for free within two hours.
Free two-hour delivery includes grocery orders from Whole Foods, which is owned by Amazon, or the online Amazon Fresh. Can't wait two hours? You can pick up your goodies at your Whole Foods market in one hour and from the looks of it during a recent trip to a Whole Foods, many people are taking advantage of it; store employees were busy filling orders for pickup.
Prime Now specializes in delivering items ranging from prepared foods and produce to canned goods, fresh meat and seafood, household essentials and more. Amazon recently discontinued that service as it consolidated its grocery-delivery services. If you can have patience with some of your orders, it just may pay off.
Choose free no-rush shipping at checkout, and you can earn either a discount or a promotional award that can be used for future Amazon purchases.
Your no-rush order will arrive within six business days, rather than the standard two days for Prime members and I've found that "six days" was really three days a couple of times I've used no-rush. Awards are applied after your no-rush order ships. Typical givebacks include digital swag including instant video downloads, digital music, eBooks, and Amazon app store apps. Amazon has you covered -- in clothes. Prime Wardrobe is Prime's answer to the dressing room.
Select up to 8 items making sure they have the Prime Wardrobe logo and they'll be shipped for free and at no charge to you. You have seven days to try them on and check out what you want to buy. It's free to return anything you don't want to purchase. Your Prime Wardrobe order comes in a resealable box or bag with a prepaid return label. You just have to haul it over to a UPS outlet or other retailers taking Amazon returns see below.
They'll take care of the rest. You can shop, buy and give to your favorite registered charitable organization through Amazon Prime. This charity-driven form of Amazon shopping is called AmazonSmile. Simply pick a charity you wish to receive donations from Amazon and do all of your Amazon. It has the exact same products and prices as your regular Amazon. Amazon will gently nudge you to AmazonSmile if you forget, but here's a hint: Just as you've bookmarked your regular Amazon.
There are more than a million eligible c 3 public charitable organizations to choose from , and the one you pick will receive 0. I'm helping support Friends of Frying Pan Park Farm, a county park in Virginia that is a working farm interpreting farm life of the s to the s.
You can share your Amazon Prime membership with your household via Amazon Household. Here's the deal: Your Prime benefits can be shared with one other adult in a household -- as long as you both agree to share your payment methods you link your accounts via Amazon Household.
Your partner in Prime has to have a separate Amazon account to be able to be added to your Prime membership. You'll then be able to share certain Prime perks including free two-day shipping, digital content and more. Teens and younger children can also be added up to four but they have parental-restricted access, praise be younger children cannot buy anything on Amazon; with parental controls, they can access certain digital content. Amazon is aggressively expanding its private-label offerings -- an area that holds huge business potential, as we pointed out in our story about Costco's Kirkland Signature brands.
Amazon Elements vitamins, nutritional supplements, baby wipes, etc. Also unique about Elements: Scan a special code on the product -- using your Amazon Shopping app -- and you will see where every ingredient in the product was sourced , down to the water in the baby wipes. Amazon Prime members get unlimited, full resolution photo storage.
Yes, unlimited. Plus, you can add up to five others, as in family and friends, connected in the, er, Family Vault. Photos are accessible from any device anywhere you can tap into your Amazon Prime account. If you're like me, overspending by having an Amazon Prime account and paying Apple every month for cloud storage for those precious pix, it may be time to trim some costs.
You also get 5 GB of storage for videos, documents, and other files just for you, not the crew from the Vault. Want more storage? You can buy it. Oh, and no worries about tagging photos. Amazon's scary servers will automatically sort your photos.
Want to free up storage on your phone? Use the Amazon app, upload them to Prime Photos and delete them from your phone. With the kids back at college, here comes Amazon Prime Student , just right for sitting around the dorm room and streaming the highly anticipated next installment of Stranger Things or just-released Amazon Prime films, during study breaks.
It's free for the first six months with a legit ". The one-time-only free trial includes free two-day Prime shipping, free same-day pickup, unlimited movie streaming, access to Amazon Music Unlimited for the bargain price of 99 cents per month, and more. Oh, and you can buy textbooks on the cheap, if textbooks are your jam. Plus ramen and Doritos, of course. Why pay for ad-free Pandora, Spotify or Apple Music when you're already making beautiful music with your Amazon Prime account?
The drawback? Music fans argue that Amazon's free playlists and stations aren't as deep as those of competing streaming services -- and it's true. I couldn't access OneRepublic songs on the Prime freebie.
Per Amazon: "The selection of songs and albums available with Prime Music is always changing. New titles are added to the Prime Music catalog, and occasionally titles are removed. It might be all you need. You don't need a public library to get a free loaner when you have Amazon Prime. That's because the cost of an Amazon Prime membership includes access to a fairly wide collection of 1, books, magazines and audiobooks nestled in Prime Reading.
Prime Reading allows you or your household to borrow up to 10 titles at a time and from a selection of Kindle books, magazines, short works, books with Audible narration, comics, and more. The available content is updated periodically, says Amazon, and titles are added and removed.
As a bonus, Prime members also get free access to certain podcasts hey, check out Kiplinger's Your Money's Worth there and other audiobooks and series through Audible Channels , a limited version of Audible which is owned by Amazon, BTW. You need to download the Audible app and log in with your Prime account to start listening. Yes, I am increasingly taking advantage of watching free movies and TV series via Amazon's streaming service, Prime Video.
If you have a newer TV, the Prime Video app comes built in, so click on it and boom! But Prime membership goes beyond just deals. Below are the answers to all of your questions concerning Prime membership.
Below you'll find a few. It also includes access to services like Prime Video and Prime Music. Amazon frequently makes deals available for for Prime members only. Similarly, a few years ago when Amazon restocked its Nintendo Switch inventory, the console was only available for Prime members. This may be a sign of things to come where Amazon becomes more like Costco or Walmart, requiring membership before you can shop.
Likewise, Amazon's Elements line of products are only available to Prime members. The product line ranges from baby wipes to vitamins. The idea is that Amazon goes the extra mile of telling you exactly where the product came from. In the case of those wipes, I can tell you liquid inside is It's worth noting that if you opt for free, no-rush shipping which can take five to seven days , you can earn money toward music, video and e-book purchases.
Also, if a Prime-eligible package arrives after the two-day shipping guarantee and you reach out to customer service, Amazon may extend your Prime membership by a month. The first 30 days of the annual subscription are free, and you can cancel anytime.
Students can get a generous price break, however. Amazon Student accounts get many of the same Prime benefits, and it's free for the first six months. After that, you will need to subscribe to Prime, but at a 50 percent discount.
During the six-month trial, students can get free shipping but will not be able to access streaming video and music, or borrow Kindle books. However, they will receive full Prime benefits if they choose to subscribe at the discounted price afterward. They'll also get access to exclusive deals, such as specials on video game pre-orders. Just visit Amazon Prime's gifting page , add it to your cart and follow the instructions to find out how you can give a yearlong subscription to a friend or family member.
In your cart, before you check out, just make sure that the box reading "This item is a gift" is checked off, and you can fill in the rest of the information when you pay. The sale was such a success, that it became an annual summer event for Amazon.
In , Amazon extended the sale to a full 36 hours, making it the longest Prime Day ever. This year, Prime Day lasted 48 hours and Amazon said it sold more than million items worldwide, which surpasses Amazon's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales combined. Check out our Amazon Prime Day page for a recap of the summer sale. Two adults in the same household can share a number of Amazon Prime benefits, including two-day shipping, streaming video and access to the Kindle Lending Library.
To add yourself to — or remove yourself from — a household, follow the instructions on the Amazon help website. Oversize items, such as treadmills and basketball hoops, get free standard shipping instead. However, items sold through third parties via Amazon Marketplace are ineligible for any kind of free shipping, unless the seller happens to offer it.
To see if a book you want to read qualifies, simply search for it on your Kindle device, Kindle app or the Amazon website, and see if the Prime logo appears next to it. If so, a Prime subscription lets you borrow it for one month. If not, you'll have to pay for it the old-fashioned way. Users can choose albums or songs to stream, or allow Amazon to create a customized profile to suit their tastes and do it for them.
Currently, the service offers more than two million songs, but its selection still pales in comparison to those of Spotify and Pandora. Amazon Prime members can also download these songs and listen to them online as long as their Prime membership remains active. Its newer service, Music Unlimited , gives you access to "tens of millions" of songs and weekly new releases. Amazon Prime users also get access to Twitch Prime, which allows them to watch Twitch streams completely ad-free.
Monthly in-game bonuses and "Free Games With Prime" — a selection of free titles for Prime members — are other perks continue. Most recently, Amazon announced that Prime members will get free in-game content for select mobile games starting with in-game items for PUBG Mobile. At the outset, the service was only available in select cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Seattle and Phoenix, but the program has added new cities on a regular basis. The goods offered are mostly groceries, toiletries and small gifts, but this should change as Amazon gains additional local partners.
You can also order food delivery from some of your favorite restaurants. To see if your area is within Prime Now's delivery range, check the Prime Now website. Like Netflix, new shows are added continually. With a Prime membership, you also get access to the ala carte Amazon Channels subscriptions, where you can pick and choose the networks you want, and not pay for anything you don't watch. MORE: Netflix vs.
Amazon offers only certain TV shows and movies for unlimited streaming. For brand-new movies and recently broadcast episodes of TV shows, for example, you'll have to dish out money for each individual piece of media. Amazon marks its unlimited streaming shows and movies with a Prime graphic across the top of the box art; everything else is pay-as-you-go.
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