Amazon Prime – what is it and how can it save me money?

Ok, so you’ve no doubt heard of Amazon.com and how it’s one of the world’s largest online retailers. In fact, in the U.S Amazon.com accounts for almost 40% of all e-commerce.

A huge part of Amazon’s dominance in the U.S is due to Amazon Prime – a subscription service that incentivises and rewards its members for shopping on Amazon. There’s a range of perks which come with a Prime membership (such as streaming video, prime Music, early access to special deals) but the major benefit is free delivery on many items. Not only that, in the U.S the delivery time frame is usually overnight but can be as short as 1 hour!

This is a huge incentive – the prices on Amazon are already renowned as being the lowest found anywhere, and with free, fast delivery it’s no wonder more and more Americans have Amazon Prime memberships (more than 100 million at last count!).

An Amazon Australia Prime membership isn’t yet quite as developed as the U.S in terms of delivery time but there are still some very compelling benefits.  When you sign up for a prime membership with Amazon Australia you receive:

Free two-day domestic delivery on eligible items

  • Amazon say the two-day delivery timeframe will be possible for around 90% of Australians, and this will include you as long as you don’t live in the middle of nowhere, in which case you’ll still get free delivery – it’ll just take a bit longer to arrive.
  • Note that this doesn’t include all products on Amazon Australia, but the selection of eligible products is growing all the time.

Free access to Amazon Prime video

Free access to Prime Music

  • Access to more than 2 million songs ad-free. Stream to your devices or download to listen offline.

Early access to special deals + member-only deals on Prime day.

Free standard international delivery on orders from Amazon U.S over $49.00.

  • This is the one to get excited about. This means that you can shop from the enormous range of products (shoes! shoes! shoes!) on Amazon U.S and have them delivered to your Australian address for free.

Amazon Prime subscription in Australian costs $6.99 per month or an annual fee of $59 (saving you $24 compared to paying monthly).

It’s easy to see that you could easily save your year’s subscription fee thanks to the lower prices on Amazon U.S and no delivery charge.

Amazon Prime Subscription Options:

  • Sign up to a monthly Prime subscription for $6.99/month (you can cancel at any time)
  • Sign up for an annual subscription for $59.00 (saving $24.00 compared to a paying monthly)

Or:

Sign up today for a free 30-day trial!

Try it! Order shoes from the U.S via Amazon Australia and see the savings for yourself. (Note: If you don’t want to retain you membership you’ll need to manually cancel after the 30 day trial)