This Weekend Only! Amazon Prime Membership for $73!

UPDATE: You can now purchase the discounted membership! This only works for NEW Amazon Prime subscription memberships. You can purchase the yearly membership for $73 here.

For this weekend only (which starts today in Amazons eyes!), you’ll be able to purchase an Amazon Prime membership for just $73. Typically the price is $99 a year, so a nice 27% savings! The deal starts at 7pm ET this evening (January 15, 2016) and will be valid through 11:59pm local time on Sunday January 17, 2016. I am personally a huge fan of Amazon with their quick 2-day delivery and have also found many ways to receive free money with them through many of the Amex Offers promotions!

Now, sometimes when Amazon runs these special yearly memberships, you are able to lock in the price for multiple years, however, we will have to see if this special will allow us to do this (I’ll be sure to report back, although directions are bel0w).

With an Amazon Prime subscription you receive the following:

• Free 2-day shipping on items sold by Amazon
• Unlimited movies and TV shows from their collection
• Unlimited music streaming
• Unlimited storage space for your photos
• Early access to sales and deals
• 1 free Kindle e-book a mont

Already an Amazon Prime Member?

UPDATE: This loophole for existing members does not work.

If you currently have a prime membership or are not looking to activate a membership just yet, you can lock actually lock in the $73 price for a future time – MAYBE. This can be done by purchasing a gift membership (even though you are really purchasing the gift for yourself!). A gift membership never expires and you can purchase as many as you want, which means you can lock in the $73 for as many years as you desire. WE JUST NEED TO WAIT AND SEE IF THIS ACTUALLY WORKS LATER TODAY.

Keep in mind though that locking yourself in at this lower rate will require you to end your current membership when the year is over. That means that if you currently have an Amazon Prime membership that allows you to share your membership with 5 members, that will go away. With new Amazon Prime accounts, you can only share your membership with 1 other person. So just keep that in mind when determining whether or not you want to keep your old membership or purchase a new membership at the discounted rate.

Steps to purchase a membership:

• First, you will need to Edit your membership subscription. You can do this here. Select the “End Membership” button and on the next screen select “End Later.” The date it ends will depend on your specific account. This will allow you to keep your membership till that date, but ensure it does not auto-renew. If the “End Later” option is already greyed out, that means your account has already been set up to not auto-renew.
• Buy an Amazon Prime Subscription Gift. When you go to checkout for this purchase you are able to select the date you want the Amazon Prime gift delivered to the recipient (YOU!). Select the date after your current Amazon subscription ends. So if it ends October 28, 2016, for example, select October 29, 2016.
• If, by some chance you later on decide you do not want another year of Amazon prime, prior to the scheduled delivery date you can call Amazon and they will cancel the gift order.

New Amazon Prime Member?

• Purchase and Amazon Prime membership here.
• If you are not ready yet to purchase a membership and want to do a free trial first, you can sign up with one of the links below:
  • Amazon Prime Trial – free 30 day trial
  • Amazon Mom Trial – free 30 day trial
  • Amazon Student Trial – free 6 month trial! (Amazon Student rates are only $49 everyday, so if you are a student then do not purchase the today only special of $73! – all you need is a .edu email address which anyone can set up at a local community college – with this membership you cannot share it with other people) 

Amazon Prime Subscription Gift memberships DO NOT auto-renew so you will not have to worry about canceling it. However, regular Prime Subscription memberships WILL auto-renew at the the $99/year rate, so if you purchase this type of membership make sure to change your settings from auto-renewing if you aren’t 100% sure you’ll want to continue the service.

Key Links to purchasing this discounted Prime membership:

• Amazon Prime Subscription at $73 – purchase here