Amazon Prime’s $139 fee has many wondering if the membership is worth the cost. The most noteworthy benefit of Amazon Prime is the free shipping that comes along with it, but there are other factors to consider when deciding if this membership is right for you. My mom always said don’t answer a question with a question. I listened to her about as well as my kids listen to me. So, is Amazon Prime Membership really worth the cost? I’ve got some questions for you in order to answer that. And at the end, you can tell me if you think Amazon Prime is worth it or not. Already love your Prime membership? Then you should prepare for Amazon Prime Day and other Black Friday in July sales. Download the KCL app to see current Amazon deals and Prime Day deals. 1. How much does Amazon Prime cost? Starting Feb. 18, 2022, the price is $139 per year unless you’re eligible for a discounted Amazon Prime membership or get the Amazon Prime Student rate. This po st was done with the help of G SA Content Gen erator DE MO!
You can pay yearly or you can pay monthly, but you’ll pay more overall if you go for the monthly membership. It’s $14.99 per month, which adds up to $179.88 - that’s almost $41 more than you’d pay for an annual membership. Is Prime still worth it with the recent price increase? Probably. But let’s look at how you use your membership to see if it makes sense for you. TIP: If you need Amazon Prime for nine months or less, it’s cheaper to pay monthly. Anything past nine months, though and you’re better off paying on an annual basis. Also, you can try the service out for 30 days with a free Amazon Prime trial. 2. Is the free shipping Prime benefit worth it? If you meet the minimum spend amount of $25 per Amazon order, you’ll get free, 5-8 day shipping even if you’re not a Prime member. But consider this: If you make more than 27 small Amazon purchases of less than $25 per year, you’re paying for the cost of a Prime membership anyway, and you might as well get all the other benefits, which I’ll get into soon. A rtic le has been creat ed by GSA Conte nt Generat or Demover sion .
Why? Because non-Prime members pay about $5 in shipping fees for each order less than $25. A Prime membership costs $139 per year. So, following this logic, it’d take about 27 shipments (orders that cost less than $25) to cover your Prime membership. TIP: Prime members in select markets also get access to free one-day shipping or even free same-day shipping on some products. 3. Do you like using Amazon Locker? If you don’t like packages sitting out on your porch all day, as a Prime member, you’ll get to use Amazon Beauty Lockers for free. Sure, non-Prime members can use them too. But they pay shipping fees like a regular Amazon Beauty delivery. ’ll have paid the equivalent of a Prime membership without getting the benefits. Another way Amazon tries to solve the packages-on-the-porch-all-day problem is by offering Prime members up to two Amazon Days per week. 4. Do you want free Prime access to Amazon Music? This data was done by GSA Con te nt Generator Dem oversion!
Every Prime member gets on-demand access to Amazon Music Prime, which boasts over two million songs, ad free. Sure, you can opt for Spotify or Apple Music instead. Both will run you $9.99 per month without any benefits beyond music streaming. TIP: There is an even larger music library on Amazon: Amazon Music Unlimited. This service gives you access to 60 million songs, but it’ll run you an additional $8.99/month. 5. Do you want a free Twitch subscription through Prime? With Prime Gaming, you get a free subscription to Twitch, plus access to lots of free games for PCs. The cost of a Twitch subscription itself is normally $4.99. You can pay more for subscriptions that come with extra emotes, but for the sake of comparison we’ll just go with the basic, tier 1 package. At $4.99/month, Prime in and of itself won’t save you money over purchasing directly through Twitch.
But if you have a Prime membership anyways, it will save you an additional $60-ish per year since you won’t have to pay the separate Twitch subscription fee. 6. Would you use free Amazon grocery delivery? It’ll be Whole Foods delivery, Amazon Fresh or Prime Now, depending on what’s offered in your area. Deliveries usually cost about $5 for non-Prime members, but they’re free for members. It’d take 27 deliveries to justify the cost of your Prime membership - or about two to three deliveries per month. 7. Do you want 20% off diapers with Amazon Family? Diapers are a budget buster for most families, so finding where to buy cheap diapers is one of the first parenting survival skills we learn. Amazon Family is a dependable way to save on diapers. It’s a program just for Prime members to save up to 20% on diapers, wipes, formula - basically all things baby.