What is Amazon Prime?
Amazon Prime is a special shipping program offered by the internet retailer Amazon.com. It's actually pretty simple: You pay Amazon an annual fee of $79.99, and you get unlimited free 2-day shipping on any Amazon order and $2.99 upgrades to next day shipping. Also, all new Amazon Prime members are offered a free trial, allowing them to experience the convenience of shopping with Amazon Prime benefits for an entire month at no charge.
Now, whether this is a good deal depends on how much you order from Amazon.com, but with shipping rates continuing to rise, it doesn't take much to at least break even. Let's take a look at a couple quick examples to see how this might break down.
If you were to buy this Canon Pixma MP470 Photo All-In-One Inkjet Printer, it would cost you around $28 to have it shipped via 2-day air. That's 35% of the price of Amazon Prime right there. So, if you made two more purchases that cost that much to ship, you'd already have saved around $4.
If you take a smaller item, such as the best-selling, The Digital Photography Book, upgrading to 2-day shipping would cost you about $13. At that rate, it would take about six similar orders to break even.
The DeGeeked Crew has been an Amazon Prime member for almost a year, and we can tell you that we've saved a ton of money by signing up. And with the holiday shopping season coming around, it's the perfect time to take advantage of this deal. We highly recommend it.
Comments
steven
October 17 2008 - 03:02 AM
Damned funny that you have this right up on top.
I’ve just seen that last month I was billed for this with out asking for it.
If you order more than $25 you get free 5 day shipping anyway.
I think I’ve been ripped off. I have never needed 2 day shipping.
Degeeked Admin
October 19 2008 - 11:38 PM
Steven -
We’ve never had a problem with Amazon charging for things that we didn’t order. That said, we’d bet that if this really did happen, that you could get Amazon customer support to remove the charge. We’ve always had very good experiences with Amazon Customer Support.
You can reach them by calling 1-866-216-1072. More info and ways to contact Amazon can be found here.