1 year Free Amazon Prime Membership for College Students

I looked at various books I was interested in and of course took into consideraton the shipping prices. The majority of times a third party offer was cheaper for me, if you find that prime works for what you're interested in, then well, great.

Amazon prime works great for pre-ordering games. You get free release day shipping and it's much better than any of the other deals in-store or online.

congrats to the person who won the rep lotto. More rep will keep coming for sure.

Quote from ll00 : congrats to the person who won the rep lotto. More rep will keep coming for sure.

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he's referring to the OP and the insane amount of reps he got

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and his "info" under OP's SN

Quote from Angellique : I looked at various books I was interested in and of course took into consideraton the shipping prices. The majority of times a third party offer was cheaper for me, if you find that prime works for what you're interested in, then well, great.

Third party usually takes about 2 weeks for books to arrive (media mail); amazon prime is 2 days.

Quote from ListenLoud : Third party usually takes about 2 weeks for books to arrive (media mail); amazon prime is 2 days.

Really? My amazon order is currently taking 2 weeks and my recent 3rd party purchase took 3 days. But of course I have had some 3rd party orders take longer it just depends on the seller.

It's not a big deal to me though how long it takes to receive my item, I just go with what's cheaper. The cheaper in most cases for me is the 3rd party, and prime isn't always offered for what I purchase. Sometimes prime just ends up being more.

It seems that prime is good mostly for new releases where you save about a $1-3 or so. What I'm trying to say is prime is not always the cheapest, it varies that's all.

Quote from Angellique : Really? My amazon order is currently taking 2 weeks and my rencent 3rd party purchase took 3 days. But of course I have had some 3rd party orders take longer. It's not a big deal to me though how long it takes, I just go with what's cheaper. The cheaper in most cases for me is the 3rd party, mostly because prime isn't always offered for what I purchase. It seems that prime is good mostly for new releases where you save about a $1-3 or so.

Sometimes prime is good sometimes its not. Why would it matter if its free? If you find yourself constantly finding a good price on amazon and pay for shipping/not $25/ need it in 2 days then prime MIGHT be worth it otherwise , meh. But for free, Sure Why Not!

what happened to all the posts in this thread??

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Step 1... read the thread.

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My college currently restricts .edu addresses to faculty and internal staff. When I told them about this they gave me an .edu address out of gratitude methinks.

So according to the history of the embued account have managed to have Free Amazon Prime from August 2008 until July 2011. I love Amazon!!

And yes I thumbed up the thread and increased insane rep count +4

Quote from Angellique : Really? My amazon order is currently taking 2 weeks and my recent 3rd party purchase took 3 days. But of course I have had some 3rd party orders take longer it just depends on the seller. It's not a big deal to me though how long it takes to receive my item, I just go with what's cheaper. The cheaper in most cases for me is the 3rd party, and prime isn't always offered for what I purchase. Sometimes prime just ends up being more. It seems that prime is good mostly for new releases where you save about a $1-3 or so. What I'm trying to say is prime is not always the cheapest, it varies that's all.

Keep in mind returning items can be cheaper with Prime as well. Many 3rd party sellers have the buyer eat shipping costs.

Thanks OP in for 1