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)Is anything lost by letting Prime expire, such as watch lists/favorites/viewing history?
2) Canceling Prime Membership auto-renewal
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3) Restarting Prime Membership
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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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I can also very frequently find a better price for the same item somewhere else. It's all about patience, which Prime has destroyed. Don't hate.
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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I believe it's $35 now
**EDIT** Never mind, just figured out new household is only 2 adults total and same household.
What is and benefits of a "grandfathered status" ?
Account does not expire, it keeps your history and orders and whayt not, just that "prime" will stop.
Would love to know..
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That makes sense for a household (married couple) but less so for extended family.
It would be nice to have access to Prime Video / Music, but that's certainly not worth $139/yr. Also, my wife shares my Amazon account which makes it tricky to hide gift purchases near the holidays.. where if I paid for my own, I could share with her.
As for free shipping, I could do without the two-day shipping most times, and wait til I've spent $35... EXCEPT so many of my purchases are Slickdeals only available for a short time. If Amazon had a way to let you go ahead and buy something at the sale price, and then leave it queued up until you had an order of a certain size, that'd be great. (Similar to their Amazon Day deliveries). Otherwise you risk the price going up on your sale item before you fill your cart up to $35. Of course, most of those sale items I don't really need so if I had to wait, I'd probably end up spending less.
Amazon tells me I placed 170 orders in 2021, and similar the year before. A full priced Prime membership would be about $.80 per order. I guess that's still a pretty small price to pay for the convenience. My median order was about $11. Less than 10% of my orders were over $35.
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