Amazon Prime Is Raising Its Price

Amazon released its number for Q1 and it marked the best revenue quarter in the history of the company. Slowly, we are getting accustomed to buying online and from Amazon. So what happens now? Yep, you guessed it, they are raising the price of an Amazon Prime membership. 

It will go from $99 to $119 on May 11th, 2018. 

So if you are thinking about becoming a Prime member, join now and save $20. Current members can renew at the lower rate until June 16, 2018. 

Here are the benefits of Prime:

1. 2-day shipping on most items shipped by Amazon, one-day shipping and 2 hours shipping on select items. 

2. FREE streaming movies and tv shows (but not all of them,  most new movies and tv shows will still need to buy)

3. FREE music streaming

4. Prime Reading - access to books and audible books in the lending library

5. Early access to Lightning deals

6. Alexa voice shopping 

Check out the insider to see all the benefits. There are still services that you will have to pay for as a Prime member like Amazon Fresh (grocery delivery service), video rentals etc. 

Even with Prime, shipping is not FREE, but if you use Amazon a lot, then it certainly makes sense to become a member. Plus you can share your account with others in your household. And if you have a child or you are in college or have an email address with the edu suffix, you are eligible for a student account that only costs $49.