If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Since one Prime Day is apparently not enough, Amazon has announced that its follow-up event, the Amazon Prime Early Access Sale, will happen on October 11th and 12th. And, as with its original Prime Day, Amazon will be dropping prices on a lot of its products for its Prime members. If you’re interested in the goodies being offered but haven’t signed up for Amazon Prime, don’t worry - Amazon makes it very easy. Besides giving access to Prime Day bargains, Amazon Fashion has come up with a bunch of features to entice people to sign up for its Prime service. These include access to Prime Video, its streaming video service; free and faster shipping on purchases (with two-day delivery for many items and even same-day delivery for some); free delivery on a selection of groceries (in select cities); Amazon Music Prime audio streaming (not to be confused with the more extensive Amazon Music Unlimited, which is an additional $8.99 / month for Sales Prime members); Prime Gaming, which includes a free Twitch channel subscription; unlimited photo storage (along with 5G of video storage); and Prime Reading, which gives you access to a library of comics, books, and magazines. Th is article was wri tten by GSA Con tent G en erator Demoversion .
You can share your Prime account - and all of its features - with one other adult. And you get a 30-day free trial, so you can try it (and the Prime Day specials) out. Here’s how to sign up. You can, if you want, just immediately click on the button on top of the page that reads Start your free 30-day trial, but don’t you want to see what your options are first? Choose which plan you want. The basic plan lets you sign up for the service at $14.99 / month or $139 / year, which comes out to a little over $12 / month. If you’re a student, you can sign up for Prime Student. You’ll get a free six-month trial subscription, and after that, you’ll only have to pay $7.49 a month. You also get some extra discounts, such as Showtime for 99 cents a month (up to a year), Amazon Music Unlimited for 99 cents a month, and six months free of LinkedIn Premium (to help with any job searches).
If you’re on government assistance or use an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) card, you can also join for less: $6.99 a month with a free 30-day trial. Is it your birthday soon? If you have a generous friend or relative, they can gift you a Prime membership for either three months ($44.97) or a full year ($139). Note that they have to be Amazon members themselves in order to gift you. Once you’ve decided which plan you’re going to go with, you’ll need an Amazon account. If you don’t already have one, you’ll need to sign up. Click on Try Prime free for 30 days and then Create your Amazon account to set one up with your name, email, and password. We strongly recommend setting up two-factor authentication for your account as well. On the next page, Amazon will verify your account by sending what it calls an OTP (one-time password) to your email. Go to your email, copy the OTP, paste it into the Amazon page, and click on Verify. You’ll then be asked to enter your credit or debit card information. We should probably mention the obvious: you can sign up for a Prime membership, take advantage of the free 30-day trial, and then cancel it after the Prime Day Sales (www.snackdeals.shop) are over. But you can only do that once, so you won’t be able to use that trick next year when Prime Day comes around again.
Once upon a time, Amazon Prime Day was only once a year, usually in July, but the deals never stop, so why limit ourselves to one sales event? That was obviously Amazon's thinking when they announced the Prime Early Access Sale a few weeks ago, after months of rumors that the e-Commerce colossus was doubling up on Prime Day shopping holidays - with this also serving as an unofficial kickoff to the holiday shopping season. That's right, folks, "early Black Friday deals" start this week, because why wait for Halloween to be over? Amazon Prime Early Access Sale runs October 11-12 in 15 countries, and as we hunker down for a veritable tsunami of deals, we have our eyes peeled and our keyboards ready. As we seek out the best deals on the best wireless earbuds - almost every bud on that list was discounted back in July - smart home devices, tablets, Chromebooks, and, of course, sales on the best Android phones, flagship and mid-range alike, we're balancing past deals, current values, and changes in the market to ensure you get only the best discounts on the products you want.
We're already seeing some sales alive and kicking for Amazon devices - Kindle e-readers, Fire TVs, Echo speakers and beyond - and we'll be keeping this live blog updated throughout the next 48 hours as deals live, die, and (in some cases) live again. The Lenovo Flex 5i Chromebook was almost too good to be true at $280, and alas it has sold out, but there are a handful of other Chromebook deals to take advantage of before their prices turn back into pumpkins at 3AM. Among Acer's superb Chromebook lineup, the Acer Chromebook Spin 514 (3H) is just below the premium titans like the Spin 714 and the now-discontinued Spin 713 (rest in peace, my lovely). When I went hands on with it hands-on with it back in May, it showed a lot of promise with its Ryzen chipset, up-firing speakers - something Acer still hasn't made standard for some unknowable reason - and long-lasting battery, and tonight's deal from Best Buy helps it stand out from the pack.