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(Last Day) Amazon Prime Membership Increases to $139, Lock in Expired

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Update: Today is the last day. Price will go up tomorrow

Amazon will Increase their Prime Membership to $139, starting 2/18. You can buy Prime Gift Membership 12 Months for $119 now and renew your membership once it expires.

Note, please make sure you cancel auto-renew first and renew it with gift after it expires.

Thanks to community members Doatslo & Zodiac for sharing this.

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PSA: Amazon will raise prices on prime membership by $20

what is the SD move here? purchase gift memberships?

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Last Edited by bluekiwi February 18, 2022 at 05:56 AM
This deal is no longer available as the price has now gone up

Please beware this is YMMV for existing prime members
amazon reserves the right to ban or eliminate you from prime membership
they will also cancel your order gift membership


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We have detected suspicious activity on your account and have locked it as a precaution. Please contact our customer service team for further assistance. For U.S. and Canada please dial 1-800-388-5512 or for International callers (charges may apply) 1-206-577-1364

If you have a grandfathered account (multiple people), you cannot use this to renew without losing grandfathered account status

(Not sure if a question belongs in the wiki, but for someone who had several folks grandfathered in, how can we check to see that they still are? There used to be an Amazon page that showed their names, but I can no longer find it.)

You can purchase multiples but they must be purchased one at a time

There is sales tax applied to this purchase


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- What is the circumstance for getting the account lock mentioned above?

Q: What is the link for checking your Prime membership expiration?
A: https://www.amazon.com/gp/primecentral


- What are each of the links and step-by-step instructions for:
1) Buying multiple gift memberships (as mentioned above)
2) Canceling Prime Membership auto-renewal
Quote from Cmurphy16 :
Just end membership. It will state that you will continue benefits until the end date and won't renew.
Quote from practicalme :
Ending membership allows you to keep to end of term (there are no partial refunds) and will not renew.
3) Restarting Prime Membership
Is anything lost by letting Prime expire, such as watch lists/favorites/viewing history?

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Rumor has it Amazon will be increasing their prime membership to $139.

The price of Amazon Prime Membership will increase from $119/year to $139/year. The change will occur sometime in the next month or so (possibly on March 1, 2022). Prime Student price is also increasing from $59/year to $69/year.

Suggestion

You can lock in the $119 price by purchasing a Gift of Prime membership. These cost $119 right now and they never expire – set your Prime membership not to auto-renew by cancelling the membership using the 'Manage My Membership' tab, and then when it expires you'll apply the Gift of Prime to your account. (You won't lose your full current membership year when cancelling membership, as will be clear on the final screen; they even give the option on the final screen to 'pause' membership.)



https://www.doctorofcredit.com/am...m-119/amp/
Come on man. This increase is a 16% increase since 2018. Inflation over years: 2019 (2.3%, 2020 (1.4%), 2021 (7.0%). Be smarter about your assumptions.
Yes. Years ago I made the mistake of letting my account expire so that I can use a prime membership code I bought on sale. Found out after I was no longer on the grandfathered plan. My family members were booted.

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02-02-2022 at 08:33 AM.

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02-02-2022 at 08:33 AM.
Yeah, any way to get in front of this by paying in advance for multiple years?

That would turn this into something relevant for hot deals.

You used to be able to buy yourself an extra year through "Gift of Prime". Not sure if that still works. It doesn't let you stick a bunch of years, though.
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02-02-2022 at 08:34 AM.
02-02-2022 at 08:34 AM.
Why the increase?
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02-02-2022 at 09:12 AM.
02-02-2022 at 09:12 AM.
Quote from JoseV21 :
Why the increase?
According to Amazon, shifting Prime shipping from 2 days to "several" days has meant a lot more stuff is clogging up the warehouses for longer, so they need to pay for warehouse expansion.
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02-02-2022 at 09:48 AM.

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02-02-2022 at 09:48 AM.
Rumor has it Amazon will be increasing their prime membership to $139.

The price of Amazon Prime Membership will increase from $119/year to $139/year. The change will occur sometime in the next month or so (possibly on March 1, 2022). Prime Student price is also increasing from $59/year to $69/year.

Suggestion

You can lock in the $119 price by purchasing a Gift of Prime membership. These cost $119 right now and they never expire – set your Prime membership not to auto-renew by cancelling the membership using the 'Manage My Membership' tab, and then when it expires you'll apply the Gift of Prime to your account. (You won't lose your full current membership year when cancelling membership, as will be clear on the final screen; they even give the option on the final screen to 'pause' membership.)



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02-02-2022 at 09:49 AM.
02-02-2022 at 09:49 AM.
I think OP was referring to the NY Post article
https://nypost.com/2022/02/01/ama...-earnings/
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02-02-2022 at 09:51 AM.
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Hard to not have Prime once you've gotten a taste…
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airfreshjoe
02-02-2022 at 09:53 AM.
02-02-2022 at 09:53 AM.
My prime expires in a few days. Thank god!
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02-02-2022 at 09:57 AM.
02-02-2022 at 09:57 AM.
Might still have to keep it. Amazon is getting greedy
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02-02-2022 at 10:02 AM.
Welp, guess that's the last straw. I was already on the fence about renewing for a 18th year, and this made the decision easy.
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02-02-2022 at 10:15 AM.
02-02-2022 at 10:15 AM.
I jumped through hoops long enough with household cutbacks etc, I no longer need Prime.
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02-02-2022 at 10:16 AM.
02-02-2022 at 10:16 AM.
the price of prime i think is still worth it, and it's not hard to figure out how to open a student account. if you get one heavier item like a piece of furniture or whatever, that $139 (or $69) just paid for itself on that one purchase. and as a prime member, you can chat up support any time there's an issue, and they give you credits, additional months of Prime service, etc. not shilling for Bezos, that's for damn sure, but just checking my account, i placed 252 orders in 2021 lol. i make sure to get my money's worth, and i place orders on behalf of several family members as well under that one subscription
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