Amazon just announced price increases for their Prime membership plans. The updated pricing will apply to Prime sign-ups starting on February 18, 2022. This means that the yearly membership will increase from $119 to $139/year, and the monthly membership from $12.99 to $14.99/month.
For Prime Student members, the price of the monthly membership will increase from $6.49 to $7.49/month, and the price of the annual membership will increase from $59 to $69/year while qualifying EBT and government assistance recipients membership price will increase from $5.99 to $6.99/month.
Would you renew at this rate?
Note that for current Prime members, the new prices will apply after March 25, 2022, on the date of their next renewal.
How To Skip The Price Increase?
Fortunately, we found an awesome way to keep the same price for at least another year even after the increase! You need to be quick since you can only do it before February 18th. See steps below:
- Buy yourself an annual Prime Gift Membership
- Go to the Prime membership plans to disable auto-renew
- Click ‘Manage Membership’
- Click ‘End Membership’
(Opt to click on ‘Keep My Benefits’ to keep your Prime membership in effect until it expires) - Once your membership expires, just apply the Gift Membership to your account and get another full year of Prime for just $119!
What about the cost for those of us on the cheaper rate due to being on EBT or Medicare?
Wondering the same thing
It says I can’t buy one like you said because I’m already a Prime member…how do you get it to work?
Iâll see if my husband wants to keep because we have been having problems with prime delivery not being delivered like on the stated date.
Thank you for this heads up!
Everything is going up thanks to the government.
so true!
Now that’s sneaky AND smart lol
I am sad that things are going up with all the changes itâs hard to keep up, I order from Amazon all the time so it is worth it to me ( cringing ) at the new prices though!
oh ok, I didn’t know you’d lost out the on reminder, thanks for the info!!
Wow, great tip (to Marilyn Miller) I do agree with you but I would be willing to bet the price increase has much to do with the inflation of goods and services this country is currently going through. Unfortunately, from all I have read and heard, no time soon will it end. IF Russia invades Ukraine, the huge sanctions that will be placed on Russia will only make inflation worse, ESPECIALLY price of gas. Just thought Iâd ask not to put ALL the blame on Amazon. Sure, most of it I do (horrible working conditions, JB is a selfish, money hungry âenter naughty word hereâ) At the same time, prices of just about EVERYTHING are up and continue to go up đ