annual cost for amazon prime
Amazon slashes Prime annual membership cost – but only until this Wednesday. Amazon has announced that, for the next three days, new subscribers to Amazon Prime will pay £59 for an annual subscription – a saving of £20 from the regular price. The offer, which runs from 16 to 18 November in the UK, has been timed to coincide with Amazon’s Black Friday Week, which will take place all next week. Season one of The Walking Dead costs £1.89 and season three costs £19.99. If you regularly watch shows and films online, Prime Membership, which includes Prime Instant Video, is more cost-effective than buying the titles separately. Amazon’s competitor for streaming services, Netflix, also costs £5.99 a month. As an Amazon Prime member streaming with Prime Instant Video rather than Netflix, you would save £5.99 a month, or £72 a year. >> For money saving tips, tricks and ideas, sign up to our weekly newsletter by entering your email here. The stand-alone Prime Video seems like a bad value considering that it's only $2 cheaper than the monthly cost of a full Prime membership—and it's actually more expensive over the course of 12 months ($107.88) than a full Prime membership paid upfront ($99). Amazon Hiking Price Of Prime To $99. On Thursday, Amazon announced that the annual price of Amazon Prime, a service which gives members free two-day shipping on millions of eligible items, will increase from $79 to $99. The discounted fee of students will be going from $39 to $49. An Amazon Prime membership costs $99 a year, or you can buy it by the month for $10.00 per month, but it might make sense for frequent users who are looking for free shipping, video streaming and other rewards. Amazon is gambling they care more about the first than the second. The retailer told the 25 million members of its Amazon Prime program on Thursday that it was increasing the annual fee for the two-day shipping service by 25 percent, to $99. The new price takes effect on the renewal dates for existing customers, starting April 17. On the one hand, both of Amazon's new options seem like pretty poor values. The month-to-month Prime membership will cost nearly $132 over the course of a year, compared with $99 for traditional Prime subscribers paying in one lump sum. The site found that Netflix, however, offered more high-definition titles than Amazon Prime. A standard plan for Netflix costs $9.99 a month, or just under $120 per year for the standard plan, versus Amazon Prime's $99 per year. Based on a calculation for a non-Prime member on the site buying a book and DVD totaling just under $20, the two-day shipping costs $14.97; with Amazon Prime, two-day shipping is free. If you have an extensive holiday shopping list, having free and fast shipping as an Amazon Prime member might come in handy. Over the weekend, Amazon introduced a couple of new subscription options as alternatives to the traditional Amazon Prime, which includes a bundle of services and costs a flat $99 per year. Rather than require the lump sum for a year of Amazon Prime, the company added the option of subscribing on a month-to-month basis for $10.99 per month.
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