everybody seems to know what Amazon Prime is but I don't think a lot of us
know about all the benefits that make it worth the money so in this video I'm
giving you my Amazon Prime review and I'll cover all the benefits so that you
can decide for yourself if you think it's worth it or not now if you just
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let's start talking about Amazon Prime I've been using Amazon Prime for about
six years now and I've never had a reason to go without it because the
benefits have always outweighed the cost now there's a ton of information when it
comes to all the benefits of Amazon Prime but I don't want this video to be
like 20 minutes long so I'm gonna give you guys all the details that I feel you
need and then you can make the decision for yourself if you want to do Amazon
Prime or not I personally feel like it's a hundred percent worth it if you take
advantage of at least some of the benefits now because there's so many
benefits to Amazon Prime I'm gonna have to break it up into the pricing and the
shipping then I'll talk about the media benefits and then I'll cover the other
stuff as well now I'll start with the pricing of
Amazon Prime which is currently a hundred and twenty bucks a year or
thirteen bucks a month if that's the route you want to take and keep in mind
that if you're a student Amazon Prime is only sixty bucks a year or six dollars
and fifty cents a month so I would definitely consider doing that if you're
going to school and the really cool thing about paying monthly is that you
can cancel anytime you want to so if you just want to keep the benefits for a
couple months then I would definitely go the monthly route I mean when you
consider all the benefits you get for only 13 bucks a month Amazon Prime is
seriously a lot better than most of the other subscription services out there so
I would highly suggest looking into them and you can even take advantage of
membership sharing which allows you to share your account with up to two people
per household to offset the cost so basically you and your spouse could each
use Amazon Prime but you'd only have to pay one fee because of the membership
sharing so definitely take advantage of the membership sharing if you've got
more than one adult living in the same household now over the years I've
noticed that the pricing of Amazon Prime has gone up a little bit but some of the
benefits have also gotten better too so even though the price has gone up a
little bit every once in a while Amazon's always going to add in more
if it's to offset the cost so just keep in mind that some of the information on
this video might not be totally accurate as the video ages but for the most part
Amazon Prime just keeps getting better and I do want to mention right here that
if you've got the Amazon Visa credit card or the store card you can actually
get five percent cash back on all your Amazon purchases if you're a Prime
member so if you do a lot of shopping on Amazon then I'd highly recommend getting
their credit cards if you're a responsible credit card user because I
don't want you guys paying twenty percent on your credit card just to get
five percent cashback because that is never gonna make any sense financially
now as far as shipping goes everybody knows the Amazon Prime gives you free
two-day shipping across the country with no minimum order size so if you randomly
need some batteries then you can get them in two days and you don't have to
order anything else which is really handy because if you're not a prime
member you've got to at least spend twenty-five bucks just to get free
shipping and then on top of that it's gonna take forever for your stuff to get
to you because they're gonna ship it the slowest and the cheapest way possible
and it's not like twenty five bucks is even that hard to spend but it really is
convenient just to order random things whenever you need them
and you'll get them in two days as well now most items on Amazon qualify for the
free two day shipping but there are a few exceptions so just keep that in mind
and another cool thing is that if you don't need your items in two days then
you can select what's called no rush shipping which will allow you to ship
the item slower but Amazon will actually compensate you with media credits and
stuff like that so it's actually worth doing if you don't need your stuff in
two days so if you don't have to have your stuff in two days then most of the
time I'd go with no rush shipping that way you can get free stuff just for
waiting longer Amazon Prime members can also get free same-day delivery or even
two hour delivery but those are only gonna work in certain urban areas so
you've got to check on where you live in order to qualify for that kind of stuff
so just check your zip code and see if you qualify for those kind of benefits
because those are actually pretty sweet to get things the same day also if you
preorder an item with a specific release date Amazon will actually deliver that
the same day that it's supposed to be released so if you preorder a movie
that's supposed to come out on a certain date then you'll actually get it the day
that it comes out rather than having to wait for it they also have add-ons where
you can pay a little bit extra for your membership fee but you'll have access to
even more she options like prime pantry and Amazon
fresh now I won't go into much detail on these but if you do a lot of grocery
shopping then I would for sure look into these add-ons because it's probably
worth the cost prime pantry is mostly used for non-perishable grocery items
like cereal laundry detergent or even Mountain Dew and you'd be surprised how
low Amazon's grocery prices are so definitely try out prime pantry if you
haven't already and then there's Amazon fresh which means that they'll actually
ship you fresh local groceries to you as quick as possible but you've got to live
in a certain zip code to even qualify for those types of orders because that's
regarding fresh items you've obviously got a live summer with a larger
population so that it makes sense to even offer the service now as far as
media benefits go the biggest one for Prime members is called prime video
which is kind of like Netflix or Hulu prime video allows you to stream free
movies and TV shows from any of your devices which is freaking sweet because
it's all included with your membership fee now I'll warn you right now that
it's not as good as Netflix but they've still got a ton of a really good content
that makes it really worth it as just an additional benefit to Amazon Prime
members you can even add channels to prime video like HBO or Showtime for an
additional monthly fee but that way they're all in the same place and it's a
lot easier to access them and because Amazon also sells in rents movies all of
that type of content is also going to be inside Amazon Prime video so basically
if you're watching any free content or if you own any movies or if you're doing
HBO or something like that everything is inside prime video and that's really
handy and as a prime member you'll also get what's called Prime music which
allows you to stream a ton of different songs for free now it does have a
limited selection of music but Amazon's got another program called Music
Unlimited which is only 8 bucks a month for Prime members and that'll give you
everything just like Apple music or Spotify does and if you guys are
interested in any of this type of stuff I'm gonna leave links in the description
because Amazon lets you try just about everything for 30 days including Amazon
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thank you now if you're a gamer Amazon Prime members also get what's called
twitch Prime which is very handy if you're into video games and that's
because you'll get deals and promotions on certain pre-ordered video games
you'll get a twitch channel subscription as well no I won't go into much detail
here but if you happen to like video games and you use twitch then you should
definitely consider Amazon Prime because it's just another benefit of what you
like to do now if you read a lot Amazon Prime members also have access to a few
other benefits as well you've got prime reading which allows
you to borrow books and magazines from a limited selection but you do have to be
using the Kindle app or a Kindle in order for it to work the Kindle app is
available on every brand of device so it's not really that big of a deal but I
just wanted you guys to be aware that you do have to use the Kindle app in
order to access the prime reading and then you've got access to what's called
Amazon first reads which will allow you to download one free book per month from
their selection overall I'd say that their reading selection is pretty good
as far as a free perk goes but honestly I would check out audible.com because
Amazon actually owns them and they've got every single audiobook on the planet
Amazon Prime members also get unlimited photo storage on their cloud so that's
very handy if you take a ton of pictures Prime members also get early access to
Amazon lightning deals so that's really good if you like to shop for random
stuff at really really good prices and if you've got young kids you can also
use what's called Amazon family and that will give you discounts on diapers and
baby food and stuff like that and don't forget Prime Day which is a special day
just for members where you can actually get the best deals of the year on a
whole bunch of different stuff it's even better than Black Friday so I would for
sure check it out the next time they run it the list of benefits just keeps
getting bigger every single year so as long as you're taking advantage of just
a few of them then I would 100% say that Amazon Prime is worth the cost now you
can try Amazon Prime for free for 30 days and you can test out all of the
benefits and all of the different perks before you decide that you actually want
to keep the membership just check out the links below if you're interested in
Amazon Prime or any of their other services because like I said earlier
they're gonna give you a free 30-day trial for just about every product that
they offer once again I'm Jason with honest finance and I make a lot of
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