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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

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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
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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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timmay28
Feb 4, 2022
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The price hiked because everyone wants to listen to Neil Young
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Inbox
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Quote from JoseV21 :
Why the increase?
So billionaires can indulge in more space fantasies instead of working on the planet's problems more directly
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JM6410
Feb 4, 2022
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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, happened to me last year.
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rphmann
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$20 really????
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SmilingRoad414
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Plenty of ways to get an edu account and create an altered class schedule. Easy peasy
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bweiher
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Quote from tosaynet :
Lmao samday and 1-day shipping is free in China from big retailers.
Many big businesses there are also heavily subsidized and directed by the government, a bit different than in the US and other countries.
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forumz
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Quote from Mr_Sadness :
​2014: $79 to $99
2018: $99 to $119
2022: $119 to $139

Seems like the price increases every 4 years.
So $159 in 2024...starting to cost as much as a Disneyland park hopper ticket...
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berkishberk
Feb 4, 2022
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Yep, just cancelled my sub bc it made me actually think about how much it's worth and whether I could get by just as well without it.
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oogoom
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Quote from islaturbine :
In 4 Prime shipping, staying for The Expanse.
the expanse has ended. series ended.
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alMac
Feb 4, 2022
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The prices are going across everything and everywhere including gas, labor and materials.

All the increased government spending and free money to sit at home gets us to this.
Inflation and Fed sitting at the wheel.

Politicians and rich get rebate and loopholes; poor gers subsidies and middle class keep debating and gets punished.
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Quote from Zodiac :
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/
So you... or someone is proposing tying up $120 for 'several years' in order to save $20. That doesn't seem to make good sense to me.

Additionally given that prime has moved to 'several days' instead of 2 day shipping I'm starting to fail to see the value. Their video library is second rate at best and I don't use any of the other benefits so it's creeping outside of reasonable for me.
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ulieq
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Not worth it anymore Prime tv programming is only as good as the free stuff. Shipping is worthless
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ddhanota
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Guess Mr. B needs a bigger yacht.
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kalexan9
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To everyone leaving.......You'll be back. You all will be back. This is what we created and asked for when we laughed at the brick and mortar stores and gave them the middle finger salute and laughed at their demise. Stores like Circuit City, Sears, Media Play, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Frys, Blockbuster, Sam Goody, ToysRUs, Radio Shack, Linens & Things, HHGregg, CompUSA, HiFi Buys, The Wiz, Pier1 Imports, Levitz Furniture, KMart, Hancocks Fabrics, Babbages, Builders Emporium....and I could go on and on. These stores aren't coming back. Ever. The sad part is that we will keep adding to the list until our cities and towns are overrun with Family Dollar Stores, gas stations, fast food restaurants, and the occasional WalMart. We wished extinction on all of these stores and praised the Amazon e-commerce model, and in the process we have created an entity that's damn near too big to fail - and getting bigger. Sadly, the biggest selection of ANYTHING you are looking for is on Amazon. So, you may hate Amazon and cancel Prime now, but you'll be back - you literally won't have a choice. Bezos was never going to be satisfied with the initial $89/yr. Prime membership, and it won't be the last price increase. This is what we asked for, and this is what we deserve.
Last edited by kalexan9 February 3, 2022 at 04:54 PM.
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