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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.

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

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  • 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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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.

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/
SlickaThanYoMama
1309 Posts
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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
73 Posts
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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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Feb 3, 2022
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luckylefty88
Feb 3, 2022
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Canceling for sure. At this point, WM+ offers way more value. GG.
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Feb 3, 2022
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TimTam42
Feb 3, 2022
710 Posts
Looks like a good time to gift a prime membership to yourself and have it sent a few days before renewal.
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Feb 3, 2022
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Optm
Feb 3, 2022
920 Posts
Count me out. Prime fee going up while Amazon's pricing continues to become less competitive, large numbers of items I've bought from Amazon are out of stock, quality of movies offered on Prime Video continues to decline dramatically and customer service is increasingly handled by offshore workers with substandard English skills.

NOTE: Just checked and found that my renewal date is March 19, so maybe I'll stick for another year, despite issues above.
Last edited by Optm February 3, 2022 at 03:45 PM.
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80is
Feb 3, 2022
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Quote from JoseV21 :
Why the increase?
bezos is ready for his second space trip, that's why.
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Feb 3, 2022
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BrianJason
Feb 3, 2022
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should be able to get around this by gifting yourself Prime. Schedule it to be sent on the day before your current membership expires.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/cu...NNS49783KE
Feb 3, 2022
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kingobadiah
Feb 3, 2022
206 Posts
Quote from mrm16 :
"A price increase for Amazon Prime was announced during Amazon's earnings report on Thursday. The price change will go into effect on Feb. 18, 2022, and for current Prime members, the new price will apply after March 25, 2022, on the date of their next renewal."

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/select/amazo...ower-rate/
Of course my renewal day March 27th.
Feb 3, 2022
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Find_A_Deal
Feb 3, 2022
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As a prime member I'm still waiting for 2 day shipping. It's been about a year since anything I've purchased qualified (even though it's shipped and sold by Amazon).

Odd how that has worked out.
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Feb 3, 2022
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dealooker
Feb 3, 2022
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Could you technically buy two gift cards and lock in the price for two years?

For e.g. account renews in Nov'22. Buy one and schedule it for Nov 2022 and another one for Nov 2023...

Anyone who has done something like this before, pls advise. TIA!
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SlickaThanYoMama
Feb 3, 2022
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Nice one Bezos, you make net sales of $110.81 billion in 2021 and then slap our faces with this b*****it.
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mdyoung
Feb 3, 2022
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I just checked and my renewal date is the end of this month and still showing $119.
Feb 3, 2022
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NCB247
Feb 3, 2022
73 Posts
Quote from xtrabad :
I've been on the fence for some time about ditching Prime. Service has become sketchy, food is not always fresh, and a few times since the pandemic Amazon has even sent used, counterfeit, or completely wrong items.

I do use Prime video quite a lot however, not a Netflix fan, so that is what keeps me hooked. Decisions, decisions ….
Would you / anyone know if Prime is cancelled do we lose access to the Prime Video movies/shows we purchased? I guess similar question for Kindle book content? Do we have to maintain an active Prime Account in order to access purchased content?
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dkstrick
Feb 3, 2022
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Quote from Hp004 :
Just today return an item which was bought as new but delivered open box with missing stuff. This has happened 4th time with me now
And this was shipped AND sold by Amazon? All 4 times?
Feb 3, 2022
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loioloiol
Feb 3, 2022
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Quote from kwadguy :
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.
they keep raising the price for us to store items in their warehouse for sales as well.. so...
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Feb 3, 2022
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Linxin
Feb 3, 2022
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Quote from GoldenLiberty :
Note that you may be able to gift yourself one more year at $119 by buying Prime via this link:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prime/p...g_landing?
Note that the fine print of the gift prime membership seems to convert a gift membership to a gift card if the recipient already has a prime membership:

"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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iuku
Feb 3, 2022
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Mine expires in 11/2025 (thanks to metro pcs). Is it okay to keep the gift membership unused until then?

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