- Hey, everyone! I'm Melea.
Okay, so I talk about living the ultimate life for less
all the time, right?
Well, one of the ways in which you can do that
is actually by saving money
on the things you buy all the time.
So whether it's groceries, household items, whatever,
and taking the money you save from that
and putting it towards those things that you want,
you wish for, you hope for, that dream vacation,
whatever it is, and one of the ways to actually do that
is by using Amazon Subscribe and Save,
but I've been receiving a lot of comments from you guys
and questions about Amazon Subscribe and Save lately,
and I'm realizing that a lot of you guys
aren't using it the right way, so today's video,
I'm gonna set the record straight.
I'm gonna show you exactly how to use it
the right way because if you're using it the wrong way,
you're actually losing money, and you're not saving money,
and we don't want that.
So let's get started, and I'll show you guys
exactly what you should be doing.
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All right, now.
On to the top five was to save
using Amazon Subscribe and Save
and how to do it the right way.
And if you happen to learn something new
or realize what you've been doing wrong
with Amazon Subscribe and Save,
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know that I can do more videos like this
in the future and you guys like them.
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for your benefit, not mine, so I want them to be helpful.
So let me know if you like them and if
you want me to do more videos like this in the future.
The number one mistake I see people make all the time
is that Amazon changes their prices all day long,
everyday, 365 a year, okay.
That includes Subscribe and Save.
So if you add something to your cart and check out
using the Subscribe and Save program,
you will get that item you purchased,
your very first shipment, will have that
deal or that price that you wanted,
but all the subsequent or additional orders
that come afterwards, they don't stay at that price.
They come at whatever price Amazon puts it at.
That means Amazon, if they wanted to,
could change it to $100.
Not saying that they would but they can
change the price up and down to anything they want and
whatever price it is at the time that your delivery ships
the second time, that's the price you're gonna pay.
And it's really really scary.
Because if you got a slamming deal that first time
your shipment came and you're thinking
oh I'm gonna get that every single time every month
or every six months or whatever it is, you're not.
So, that is the number one mistake I see.
So don't do that and don't plan on that.
Number two is to look for coupons to save even more.
There are so many Subscribe and Save items
that actually have coupons that will help you save.
The rules to the coupons are though
you can only use them on that very first shipment.
So if you had a $4 off coupon on a product
that added as a Subscribe and Save item,
it would only come off that first shipment
and it wouldn't come off any of the other
automatic shipments that you received.
And again, a lot of people don't know that.
So it only works that one time and you can only buy one.
The coupon only works on one.
So if you were to buy two of that product to
Subscribe and Save to, the coupon would only come off one.
If you do not know where the coupon
section is for Subscribe and Save,
I'm gonna link it to you in the description below
like I talked about in the beginning of the video.
Okay, so if you guys didn't know,
I actually am writing a ton of stuff
in that YouTube description below the YouTube video.
So you need to open that up to
find more information on what I'm talking about
on every single video that I do.
If I've said I'm gonna link you directly to an item
or product, or deal, or sale, it's down there.
Tip number three.
If you add five or more Subscribe and Save shipments
in a month, then you get an extra 15% off
instead of the regular 5% that you get,
which can make a huge, huge difference.
So I know a lot of people really try
to get that five every single month.
So whether it's Lysol wipes, or whether it's toilet paper,
or paper towels, or food items,
they hit that five every single month.
However, it does not work on diapers.
Diapers are the one exclusion that
extra discount does not work on.
You can add the Subscribe and Save diapers to your order
but you still have to get five Subscribe and Save items
that are not diaper in order to
get that extra 15% off on those items.
And along with that, if you guys don't know,
Amazon used to let you just do the
Subscribe and Save and it would ship automatically
and it was awesome and it would just show up like
two days later if you had Amazon Prime.
But now what they're doing is they're
actually making you wait.
So you have one day a month that's your shipment date.
My date is the 28th of the month.
So I know around the 27th or the 28th of a month
that Amazon is going to ship anything that's in my
Subscribe and Save order that's time to ship.
If you don't know what that number is or what your date is
all you have to do is go into your account
under your Subscribe and Save section.
Or, at the last stage of checkout,
right before you hit submit, you'll see what your date is.
It'll say this item will ship on or around
March 28th or whatever it is.
Okay, number four.
Make sure you pick the right re-delivery date.
When you're adding an item to your cart,
before you add it to your cart,
there will be a section that will say
two months, one month, but up to six months.
I always choose six months.
Well I should say almost always choose six months.
Because that gives me time to actually
unsubscribe from my Subscribe and Save.
So speaking of that list, go to another tip.
This last tip is all about unsubscribing
on Amazon Subscribe and Save.
This is a thing that people miss out on.
Amazon is totally okay with you cancelling,
changing, unsubscribing, for any reason at any time.
They have this listed, actually, on their website.
So that means that it's okay for you to
subscribe to say, toilet paper,
and after that item actually ships and you've received it
go back into your Amazon account and unsubscribe
or delete that from your Subscribe and Save account.
Why, you ask?
Because, like I said at the beginning,
those prices don't stay the same.
So it doesn't help you to keep that item
in your cart, because most of the time people forget, right,
and then it'll auto ship to you again
at whatever price Amazon wants it at.
So that's not the way to do it.
So what I personally do is I subscribe to something,
I unsubscribe before they re-ship it to me,
and then I keep watching for another deal.
So if you do it that way and when you're about ready
to order more of that item, you can get online at
Amazon Subscribe and Save, see if there's any coupons
that you might be able to clip,
because you wouldn't be able to add that to an
old Subscribe and Save but you can add it to a new one.
See what I'm talking about?
Which saves you more money.
Plus, the price might have gone down.
Because, I know I've talked about Amazon prices going up
but they go down to, right?
So that's the way that I handle
the Subscribe and Save and I highly,
highly recommend that you always unsubscribe.
But, after your item ships.
It has to ship first.
Amazon will send you and email
letting you know that it's almost
time for your order to be sent to you again
so if you get that email and you totally
forgot to unsubscribe you can run into
your Amazon account, unsubscribe, cancel that,
and then they won't charge you or send that order to you.
Okay, so those are the tips and the ways
that you should be using Amazon
Subscribe and Save the right way.
If you guys have not checked out my Amazon Prime Pantry
video yet, that's definitely one
you guys are gonna want to check out.
And I will link you guys to that below
in the YouTube description or you can just search it
on my YouTube channel here on The Melea Show.
But that's another great way to save.
And I use Amazon Subscribe and Save
and the Prime Pantry deals all
kind of interchangeably because
I'm gonna go with whatever is the best deal,
whatever saves me the most time,
whatever saves me the most money.
But if you know how to do both and understand it,
it will really help you save a lot of money.
Phew, okay.
Thank you so much for watching.
I hope that helps you guys.
And hopefully it fixed whatever
issues you guys have been having
with Amazon Subscribe and Save.
And again, click the like button
if you learned something new and
I will talk to you guys later.
See ya, bye.