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expired Posted by Doatslo • Feb 2, 2022
expired Posted by Doatslo • Feb 2, 2022

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

$119 w/ Prime Gift

$139

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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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  • Stream millions of songs and thousands of playlists
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    • Amazon will send your gift recipient an email on the day you choose along with redemption instructions. The gift recipient can start their Prime membership right away. If the recipient is already a Prime member, the gift can be exchanged for an Amazon.com Gift Card in the value of the original gift purchase price plus any applicable sales taxes paid. The gift membership does not automatically renew and is not eligible for promotional offers. The gift of Prime can only be redeemed on Amazon.com.
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    • Please see our forum thread for additional details and discussions. ~ persian_mafia

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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.

Prime members enjoy:
  • Fast, free delivery
  • Watch thousands of movies and TV shows with Prime Video
  • Stream millions of songs and thousands of playlists
  • Also get free Kindle e-books, unlimited photo storage, exclusive access to deals, Twitch, and much more

Editor's Notes

Written by persian_mafia | Staff
  • About this product:
    • Amazon will send your gift recipient an email on the day you choose along with redemption instructions. The gift recipient can start their Prime membership right away. If the recipient is already a Prime member, the gift can be exchanged for an Amazon.com Gift Card in the value of the original gift purchase price plus any applicable sales taxes paid. The gift membership does not automatically renew and is not eligible for promotional offers. The gift of Prime can only be redeemed on Amazon.com.
  • About this store:
  • Additional note:
    • Please see our forum thread for additional details and discussions. ~ persian_mafia

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Zodiac
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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.

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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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SlickaThanYoMama
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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.
itsbananas
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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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"The price change will go into effect for new members on Feb. 18 and for current members after March 25." No need to rush
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Just saw this. $140 a year? No way. That's a definite cancelation. Barely worth it to me at $99...went to 120....now 140? Too bad.
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Quote from ER_Doc :
Just saw this. $140 a year? No way. That's a definite cancelation. Barely worth it to me at $99...went to 120....now 140? Too bad.
Yea that's just greedy... it's hard to justify keeping when you repeat to yourself "I just need to buy a bunch more things off Amazon to make it worth while" lol
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Amazon is raising the price of prime membership from $119 to $139 per year. The price increase is effective Feb 18th for new members and March 25th for existing members.

To lock in the current price, you can buy a gift membership and send it to yourself. The trick is that your existing membership has to end first. If you add the membership while you have a current membership, then it gives you a credit instead.

When you buy the gift membership, you can enter the date to send the gift code to yourself. Turn off auto renewal and set the date for the day after your membership expires.

Last time the price went up (in 2018), I did this and it worked no problem. At that time you could only set the date out one year, but now it looks like you can set it out through the end of 2023 (so potentially 2 renewals).

News on the price increase: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/te...index.html

https://www.amazon.com/gp/prime/p...ng_landing
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b534202
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Does it charge right away or when it sends the code?
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For those that have people grandfathered in to the sharing prime benefits to 4 others, will doing it this way end up canceling the grandfathered plans?
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Supply_and_Demand
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I'm out. With how much money Bezos is taking in the price increase has zero justification.
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Quote from forumz :
For those that have people grandfathered in to the sharing prime benefits to 4 others, will doing it this way end up canceling the grandfathered plans?
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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Marth5454
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Bezos did this on purpose to fund his next space trip
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randonomous
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In 4 Prime shipping, staying for The Expanse.
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Marth5454
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Quote from sleekwallet :
and you are going where? wish?
You can still get free shipping with $35 minimum orders. He has a point
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I just tried this and couldn't send it out more than 1 year from today's date. So even though it gives you the option to select 2023, it will stop you if you select a date that is more than 1 year out from the current date.
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