Amazon Prime Membership

[Ricky D'Angelo]

Just got this email from amazon.

Your Amazon Prime membership is set to renew on January 14, 2016.
Go to www.amazon.com and click on Your Account at the top of any page
Select "Manage Prime Membership" under "Settings"
Click the Edit button next to "Renewal Payment Method"
Follow the on-screen instructions to update your card or choose a different one

To prevent interruption of your benefits, we will try charging other active cards associated with your Amazon account if we can't charge your default card. If we can't process the charge for your membership fee, your Amazon Prime benefits will be suspended.

Sincerely,
The Amazon Prime Team

Currently Amazon is offering prime for $99.00 which is a pretty good deal, however I was wondering if anyone is aware of any better deals. Perhaps if I let my membership expire I'll get a better offer?

[Cinisajoy]

I haven't seen any better deals lately.

[GtrsRGr8]

It seems that they only do promotions "all or nothing." They don't have a gazillion different promotions, with different prices and different other terms and conditions, running at the same time, like Audible does for their trial memberships (and maybe other memberships). If Amazon lowers the Prime membership price, it's lowered for everyone or everyone of a certain group. For example, with the most recent promotion that I remember them having, they lowered the membership price to $75 for new members for a certain period of time.

[DreamWriter]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I haven't seen any better deals lately.

I haven't either. My annual Prime membership renewed yesterday at $99.

[issybird]

Originally Posted by Ricky D'Angelo

Just got this email from amazon.


Currently Amazon is offering prime for $99.00 which is a pretty good deal, however I was wondering if anyone is aware of any better deals. Perhaps if I let my membership expire I'll get a better offer?

If you use Prime mostly or entirely for the free shipping, why not order everything you expect to need in the near to intermediate future and then let Prime lapse until you want to use it again? It's an effective savings of over $8/month and who knows? They might have a promotion while your membership is in abeyance.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by issybird

If you use Prime mostly or entirely for the free shipping, why not order everything you expect to need in the near to intermediate future and then let Prime lapse until you want to use it again? It's an effective savings of over $8/month and who knows? They might have a promotion while your membership is in abeyance.

Good idea. Some people wouldn't bother "for just a few dollars," but being frugal as I am (and knowing that "a few dollars" here and there add up to a lot of dollars over time), I do bother.

If a person wants the membership to lapse he/she does need to go to their account settings and un-select the automatic renewal. Amazon has automatic renewal by default.