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!
Itâs all worth it to me though. If you use it as often as some of us do, it totally beats paying shipping every time you want to order something. Some of us order stuff everyday. Just saying. Hopefully they donât continue to increase the price.
I will keep it. I accidentally ordered from a company that was not prime and even though their product was defective, they told me to pay for return shipping. I spoke to Amazon and they said they would reimburse me. My mom got really sick so I couldn’t follow up for 2 or 3 months. They still reimbursed me when I called. I also get refunds with companies that say so returns like for expired coffee. Amazon is great! I think I het more than my monies worth.
I use my EBT to keep my Prime rate low right now. Itâs very helpful and the additional $1 per month is feasible especially to keep the two hr ship on Amazon Fresh!
I will keep it. I love it.
We use all of the Prime benefits, not just Free Shipping, so at the higher prices, we’ll still save a lot of $$. We’re gonna be keeping it.
I canceled almost a year ago and donât miss it! Besides, Amazon offers free shipping on orders over $25 if you donât have Prime. So Iâm saving myself a ton of money and still get free shipping on Amazon!
I would keep it. $20 more for a year really isnât that bad, And thank you for this tip! I will have to do this!
Iâll keep mine monthly.
As much as I like Amazon Prime, there are more and more increases everywhere. Iâm not sure how this is going to effect my budget yet . I will need to figure that out! May need to give it up!!đ˘
where is that? i took your link but i dont see the option. i didnt want it last year didnt realize it until it came out. i had a free trial….ugg