The products and services mentioned below were selected independent of sales and advertising. However, Don't Waste Your Money may receive a small commission from the purchase of any products or services through an affiliate link to the retailer's website. Amazon Prime is a great service. The basic feature of the $99 membership is that you get almost anything on Amazon delivered for free in two days. Personally, I’ve noticed that I now only buy items that are available through Amazon Prime. Amazon has trained me that if I can’t get an item in two days, then the world will come to an end. Over the past few months, I’ve stumbled across other benefits that you get for free as an Amazon Prime member. If you’re anything like me, your collection of digital pictures is spiraling out of control. There are plenty of services that will store all of your pictures online, but most either charge you or do not store the full-resolution photo.
Prime customers get unlimited photo storage at no additional charge. Photos can be uploaded through your web browser, the Amazon Cloud Drive app, or with Amazon Cloud Drive Photos app (available for Android and iOS). Streaming music is quickly becoming the main way people listen to music these days. Services like Spotify and Apple Music are great and provide you an unlimited library of songs to access. Unfortunately, those services also charge $9.99/month. With Amazon Prime Music, you have access to thousands of the most popular artists. There are no ads, and you can play specific songs (unlike Pandora). The one watch-out I’ve found is that their collection is nowhere near as big as Spotify or Apple Music. However, it’s free to try out and see if you like it. They have an app available for iOS and Android devices as well. Here’s a new one that I just learned about. Post h as been g enerated with G SA Content Generator Demov ersion!
Amazon Prime members are allowed to borrow a free book from the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library each month. The books can be delivered to any compatible device that is registered with your Amazon account, and there are thousands of books available to choose from. Like the free book lending, I wasn’t aware of this perk until until recently. In select cities, Amazon will deliver certain products in two hours. For an additional $7.99, you can even have the items delivered in one hour. To see if your city qualifies, go here and enter your zip code. They will hopefully be adding more cities in the near future. To try out this feature you can either use the Amazon website or download the Amazon Prime Now app (iOS and Android). Good news if you are a college student: Through the Amazon Student program, you get Prime free for six months. All you need is a .edu email address. So even if you just graduated and still have your college email address, you can likely still take advantage of this offer! Data was c re ated by GSA C ontent Generator DEMO .
And as a bonus, after the 6 month trial, you can keep Amazon Prime for 50 percent off the regular membership rate! This is another one I didn’t know much about. Amazon Prime members get 30-minute early access to select Amazon Lightning Deals. The deals are limited in quantity and go really quickly, but with early access, you have a much better chance of getting them before they sell out. This is one of the benefits that I take advantage of the most. And I honestly would pay the $99/year for this without any of other benefits (even the free shipping). Amazon has made a big investment in streaming TV and movies, and is quickly becoming Netflix’s biggest competitor. Amazon Prime video has thousands of TV shows and movies you can access. In addition, Amazon has recently released some really great original shows that you can stream for free. You can watch the shows on the web, through the Amazon Video app, or stream to a low-cost Amazon device called the Fire TV Stick that you plug into your TV.