So what exactly is Amazon Prime and is it worth the membership fee?
I'm gonna share all the details and as well as some of my best tips on this video
Hey what's up guys is Sean Cannell here and I wanted to do a quick video
with the question that's going around a lot of people wondering what's included in
and what is amazon prime all about as well as is it really worth the membership fee
and so im going to share some of my best tips in this video
and hey at anytime check out show notes and links in the youtube description below
a lot of times I'll include extra all the details in the video plus extra things I forgot
and stuff like that so you can check that out down there
So Amazon Prime is an annual membership from amazon.com that includes shipping benefits
as well as a bunch of other services so I'll go through
service by service first and then I'll share some thoughts on
whether or not it's worth the total investment price
So first and foremost you get free today shipping on qualifying items and it's a lot of items
and so that means you are going to get fast shipping all year long with out paying any
extra for it now you might be saying that there's free
shipping above 25 or 35 dollars on amazon anyways
but one of the nice things about prime is that there's actually no minimum so if you
order one item for ten bucks that qualifies for prime is coming in two
days now there's also free same day shipping in certain zip codes
but that doesn't really apply to a lot of people so that's something that maybe for
you you can research it a little bit the next thing that you get it's amazon in
stream video and this includes unlimited streaming of the movies
and the tv shows that they have available this is something that my wife and I use a
lot so it's valuable to us now obviously one of the competitors in this
space is Netflix they definitely are better I don't know if you can really do one or the
other but you do get a lot of stuff with amazon
instant video and we are seeing new stuff added all the time
and just like all of this services Amazon Prime is starting to have exclusive tv shows
just for prime members and that might be something that is really valuable to you
now the next thing is available is Amazon Prime Music now included in this is over
one million songs and hundreds of playlist that you can stream at free now
some people might not use this at all my wife actually doesn't I personally do and
one of the things that you have to really utilize is I use it
on my mobile phone and so you've got the app or you can download the songs to the phone
or just stream them on your phone ad free and then I also use it on the amazon music
player on the computer and you can play it just like
spotify or anything else and so the library is actually really good
and what I like is I don't personally pay for spotify I don't pay for
Pandora and it hits me with ads all the time so I like to pick a station ad free music
or even just download specific stuff and honestly if you are into
music at all look through the library that is available on prime
now the next thing we actually haven't started using yet but we are super excited about it
it's called Prime Photos So prime members actually have access to unlimited
storage for their photos now this is definitely Important if the quality of your photos matter
to you because you could just upload all your photos to Facebook for free but those aren't
going to be saved in their highest quality Or you can upload them to flicker and you
get a lot of space there but eventually start paying so this is kinda nice to as a way to
back up all your photos We are creating so much content this days
from our mobile phones cameras and all this different stuff and at least just know that
you have a save place unlimited To store them at their highest quality so
we're pumped over the holidays we are actually gonna be going through
and making sure all of our photos are backed up there
now the next thing is prime pantry now I cant speak too much of this but we have used it
a few times and basically you have access to house hold
items detergent we get coffee pots that we buy in
bulk there chips tooth paste, soup I mean kind of things
that could be ship there's also amazon fresh but
that's something different and for one flat rate of I believe 5.99 only prime members
can have access to prime pantry and it's a good deal if you buy enough stuff and it's
showing right at your door and we figure out that for instance if we
bough ten boxes of our coffee pods the discount inside of prime pantry 5 boxes we break even
on the 5.99 price to ship the box out so if we bought 10 we actually save 5 bucks off of
amazon's already low price and so something to search around on but definitely
value if you think that you are going to use it
now this one is pretty legit and it's prime early access now this is huge for things like
black Friday and 12 days of Christmas and all the sales the
lighting deals that amazon does And with prime early access it means that
as a prime member you get to the lighting deals 30 minutes before everybody else
So if you shopped on amazon before when they are offering lighting deals you've probably
seen that they are extreme discount prices compared to amazon already competitive prices
And so the prime member you are really gonna get the ability to add that to your cart first
Now the best items during lighting deals usually go under 2 to 3 minutes and so it means
That almost none prime member on the best stuff
Probably wont even get a shoot at it Now a couple of things here I actually shoot
a video on my best tips and strategies for black Friday
And the holiday shopping on amazon.com so I'll link that up in the YouTube card
That will pop out of the upper right corner Prime is a really worth it during the holidays
and not just because you get the fast shipping when you are ordering things last minute
But because you are able to get the 30 minutes advance on lightening deals and the cool thing
is that if you have never sign up for amazon prime before
You can actually do a 30 day trial during the holidays and get those benefits during
the black Friday sales or the black Friday week and the 12 days of Christmas and all
of that stuff with the Prime early access
And if you ultimately don't think you are going to use all that stuff you can just cancel
after you try it out The last feature I'll mention is the kindle
owners lending library this has access to over 800 000 ebooks
One per month that you get for free but you have to do it on a kindle device so on amazon
phone a kindle fire a kindle tablet So this has been a challenge for us because
they actually do have really good books available there
We do read a lot of books but we had have a kindle we don't have one right now
So we haven't taken advantage of it but if you are a reader and you like reading digitally
you can be getting books That are 10 plus dollars each ebooks and that
would easily pay for it self if you were reading one a month so that's another feature
There's a handful of other features and I'll link to the list in the YouTube description
You can see it on the screen here that you can check out but these are the ones I mention
are definitely the ones I consider the most notable
So how much does prime cost Well right now it cost 99 dollars a year and
so if you break that down that is about 8.29 per month
Now if you compare that to Netflix I believe is 7.99 a month right now so that's gonna
add up to about 95 dollars So both are pretty comparable now there are
certain times of the year when prime is extremely valuable
And we already mention black Friday cyber Monday with the lighting deals twelve days
of Christmas All of those times prime is going to give
you that early access advantage to those lightening deals
and fast shipping of course all year long the other one that they just launch that happen
this year is called prime day and there was mix kind of opinions of it but
its another opportunity during the year where they're slashing
pricings majorly and overall have generally good report and amazon did a lot of sales
and that is the savings so that's another thing to be aware of
so here's another question is amazon prime worth a hundred bucks a year?
Just a few thoughts number one absolutely is you are going to use the services
For my wife and I it was a no brainer we do a ton of online shopping and so the shipping
which I talked about makes it worth it But all the other services we know that if
we watched a couple of seasons of tv shows that aren't available on Netflix
That we would have to just buy for 25 bucks or whatever that there's enough things we
do with the music With the movies and then with the shipping
and then with online shopping and the lighting deals and
The advantage there it just makes total sense for us,
But you gotta ask yourself the question how interested are you in those different services
Number 2 it's worth it if when it comes to shipping if speed matters to you
And if you probably order I read on life hacker ten to twenty different orders per year
If the speed of receiving your items does not matter to you then you might be able to
get away Without the benefits with it comes to shipping
You still get free shipping when you order 25 dollars or sometimes is 35 dollars amount
of stuff to get free shipping in certain items and if so if you are consistently putting
together big enough orders to get Free shipping and you don't need that stuff
in a rush you have enough foreside to order then maybe prime is not for you
But on the flip side if you are doing that volume it begins to be positive in your favor
and also speed matters even just being in photography and video production
Working in a home office there's a lot of stuff that will want just to get quickly and
not even stress out about shipping That's the second question does speed matter
to you and do you like the convenience to not be thinking about other things to add
to your card to get the fast shipping if you just order one thing
And then bom is in the mail Number 3 Amazon prime is specially cool during
the holidays is nice that even at the beginning of December
You can be confident that you can still get stuff quickly as you are figuring out those
last minute gift ideas and things Like that and amazon I believe for everybody
delivers on Sundays now So prime just as and added feature we just
put an order recently on Friday and got everything That I actually needed to shoot some videos
on that Sunday And so it's two days with prime so that expedited
speed specially during the holidays and the bonus on
the lighting deals really cool number 4 you can actually give prime as a
gift and so you can either request it if you think that's awesome but you're thinking about
you know the cost or may be you know someone how totally would use it and would be just
pumped about all of this stuff you can give it as a gift
I'll make sure to link up to the gift page in the youtube show notes so you can check
that out and 5 you can also share the benefits of amazon
prime with one other person in your house hole
and this is kinda cool if think about and maybe have a room mate or your kids are still
living at home or how ever you want to break it up you can share
with anybody now you just took a 100 dollars you and split
between two people both are receiving the benefits
that really begins to stack up the value and that's something to know about
Question of the day What do you thing about amazon prime maybe
after watching this video or if you've used it is it worth the price ?
I would love to hear your opinion and connect with you in the comments section here on YouTube
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