Update: DEAD!
Update: This offer ends tonight!
Originally posted on 11/29:
You can buy $107 Prime Gift Memberships here. You can buy as many as you’d like, but you’ll have to buy them one at a time. The discount will be reflected on the final checkout screen.
Tax on Amazon Prime Memberships is collected based on whether your default address is in one of these states. You can buy Prime Gift Memberships with Amazon gift cards, so if you have Amazon gift cards and have an address in a state without tax on a Prime Membership (such as Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, or Virginia) you can use that as your default address for an Amazon Prime Gift Membership and avoid paying tax on the membership.
While regular Amazon Prime is charged to a credit card, you can use your Ink Business Cash® Credit Card card and get 5 Chase Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent by buying Amazon gift cards at Office Max/Depot or Staples. Of course you don’t need to use a gift card to lock this in, but that way you’ll earn 5 Chase Ultimate Rewards points per dollar spent and can avoid paying taxes on Prime membership.
You can have Prime Gift Memberships emailed to you or a friend. Just select to have it sent now and you can file the gift memberships away in a folder in your email. There is no limit to how many Prime Gift Memberships that you can buy. They will always be good for a full year of Prime, no matter what the price for Prime is when they are used, and they will never expire!
When you send yourself a gift year of Prime you will get an email with a special link that instantly gives a year of Prime to whatever account opens the special link. If you click on the link and have an active Prime membership it will ask you if you want to convert the membership into a gift card for the amount paid for the Prime gift membership. If you paid tax for the Prime Gift then you will also get the tax back as a gift card.
You need to click on the link after your Prime membership expires in order to use it for another year of Prime.
A regular Prime membership is set to auto-renew. To use the Prime Gift Membership, you will need to set your Prime not to auto-renew.
To do so, click on this link, select Manage membership, and select “End Membership.”
You will be asked if you want to end your Prime benefits. Click on “cancel my benefits:”
Confirm that you want to end your benefits at the end of your membership that you have already paid for:
You will get a confirmation that your Prime membership will end on a future date:
After that date, just click on the Prime Gift Membership link in your email to enroll in another year of Prime at the $107 price that you locked in!
Decide that you no longer want Prime? You can convert the amount you paid back into an Amazon gift card by scrolling to the bottom of the email and locating the link in this paragraph:
You can buy as many gifts of Prime as you want. You can use it for yourself or give it as a gift in the future to anyone else.
I have a folder in my email where I have discounted Amazon Prime gift cards from past promotions.
If you have gift card funds locked in one Amazon account and you want to transfer the funds to someone else you can buy Prime gift subscriptions with your gift cards and send them the gift to another Prime account! That other account can then turn the gift membership back into gift cards in their account.
Note that if you are grandfathered into the old Prime sharing system with 5 full Prime members you can’t use this workaround as it requires letting your old Prime expire before enrolling again. Under new Prime sharing rules you can only share Prime with 1 other person and payment details are shared as well between those accounts. Though under the new system Prime benefits like Amazon Family and Prime Video are usable by both accounts.
Amazon Prime member benefits include:
- Exclusive access to discounted deals.
- Free 1 day shipping on all Amazon orders or get a credit for choosing no-rush shipping.
- No minimum order requirement on add-on items.
- Free shipping on all orders from Woot
- Free instant video streaming
- Free Prime music
- Kindle lending library
- Free full-res unlmited photo storage in the cloud.
- Prime pantry access
- 30 minute priority access to lightning and Black Friday deals
- Access to exclusive sales like Prime Day, and other Prime member only sales.
- Prime Twitch Video Game Benefits
- If you have Amazon Prime you can select “FREE No-Rush Shipping” when making an order and you’ll get a bonus such as a $1 Amazon eBooks, digital music and videos credit, a $3 Amazon.com credit, a $5.99 Prime Pantry credit, a $20 Amazon Home Services credit, etc. You can view your no-rush credits here.
- Amazon Prime members can opt into Amazon Family where you’ll also get up to 20% off subscription orders of diapers and 15% off to complete unordered items from a baby registry.
- Several times per year Amazon Prime members can get free magazine subscriptions.
- Prime members also get access to Amazon Prints for inexpensive photo and photobook printing with free shipping.
- With Prime Reading you can browse the full version thousands of books and magazines free of charge from your smartphone, tablet, or Kindle via the Kindle app.
- Prime members who make a wedding registry can even save 20% off items that weren’t purchased off their registry!
- Also available is a free 6 month trial of Amazon Student which costs just $49.99/year and EBT cardholders can buy Prime for just $5.99/month. That comes out to just $71.88/year instead of $119/year for regular Prime paid up front or $155.88/year for regular Prime paid monthly.
- Also available is a free 6 month trial of Amazon Student which costs just $49.99/year and EBT cardholders can buy Prime for just $5.99/month. That comes out to just $71.88/year instead of $119/year for regular Prime paid up front or $155.88/year for regular Prime paid monthly.
Amazon offers free shipping with $35+ orders or get free next-day shipping on all orders with a free trial of Amazon Prime. Prime members can share benefits with a Household member here, allowing them to double up on Amazon Prime promos! A 6 month trial and discounted Prime membership is available with Amazon Student. EBT/Medicaid Cardholders can save on Prime Membership here.
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Still have 10 years locked in for $79 from many years ago but don’t want to let my grandfathered account expire.
Good old days!
Thank you!
My membership ends Jan 20. I see I paid $99 + tax last year. Does that mean it will be the same for this year? Also if I do change to this offer and have like 15 shipments about to ship, will it ruin those and not be eligible for prime if I do this?
No, next year it will be $119+tax.
Doing this will not ruin that.
no, your prime is set till Jan 20 so no harm to your 15 upcoming shipments. you will keep your Prime benefit till then.
and no you will not stay at $99 rate.
I buy lots of amazon giftcards at staples and upload them on my account. I am not sure I understand how to get tax free when using these gift cards. Can you please explain?
You can get tax free Prime membership, not tax-free items from Amazon.
use an address in one of the states mentioned above
why does my membership management page show that the annual plan is 99?
will it renew at 119 if I leave it to renew?
$99 was the old rate. The next renewal will be $119.
yes.
“Starting June 16, 2018, existing Prime members with an annual membership will renew at a rate of $119/year. Prime Student members with an annual membership will renew at a rate of $59/year.”
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=202213110
Hi Dan,
A little confused here.
Are you saying that if I email the link to myself I need to wait until the time in my account expires to activate it? Also how will the 107 price be locked in if it was from a gift email?
Correct, just email yourself future $107 memberships and click on the link from the email when your membership expires.
Any downside to letting your membership expire before renewing (other than the grandfathered status for household accounts)? Would my photos that are stored on Amazon go away if I end my membership before renewing?
No downside.
They will not.
So if I purchase giftcards at staples and put the Billing address on these giftcards in MA and purchase this membership with a giftcard does that mean all my purchases for the next year will have this MA address as my default for billing? Is there a way to change it after membership is purchased?
You can change it right after purchasing.
Seems that the AMEX targeted offers cant be applied to this deal (although it’s being sold by Amazon LLC 🙂
Does the registry promo still work?
Is there any problem buying 20 amazon gift cards from staples 3-4 times a week and stacking them on your amazon account?
Not a problem at all. Been doing that for years.
Where do you find so many Amazon gift cards? The staples around me are always low.
Try Office Max/Office Depot?
You don’t get credit card protection on your Amazon purchases, since you made the purchase with gift cards, not the credit card.
do you have to buy the amazon gift cards (ink card) from staples / office depot in store?
For someone with a current Prime membership, should I convert the gift membership into a Amazon gift card prior to the expiration of the current membership or after the expiration of the current membership?
What’s the point of buying more than 1? Hoping there’s not another deal?? After purchase of 1 and mine that I had expires this January what should I do? I don’t understand cancelling and redoing and getting some money back..
Somehow its allowing only one to me. How can I buy multiple at once?
nevermind, I have to purchase one at a time
I tried this 3x on Friday. Everytime the price shown was $119, not $107, even at checkout 🙁
After you set the email and date, and before you complete the purchase and pay the price changes
How can I tell if I have a grandfathered prime account, please?
https://www.amazon.com/myh/manage/ref=myh_c_l_m lets you “manage” your household. But it doesn’t clarify which kind of account I have. TIA.
So Prime Student Membership will remain at $59? Or will it also increase? If it does will 10% Off apply?
never got the tax refund after ending my membership jan 26 2020
is this offer also for monthly prime price
do i get 5% on my amazon store card for buying this prime membership
Showing 119, is it dead?
You need to go to the final checkout screen to see the discount.
I am at “place your order” and still showing 119.
You need to currently have Prime for this to work.
Thanks, I thought it was for new memberships also.
Just get a Prime member to buy it for you.
PM me on DDF if you want one. Then you can buy more for yourself.
Appreciate the offer. Have it covered.
If I have Prime No-Rush Reward credits on my account, will they automatically disappear if I let my Prime membership to expire?
I have a physical address in Alaska so made that my default shipping address. However, Amazon is still charging me Texas state sales tax. I believe I ran into this with the last Prime membership promotion; I think the membership will not be tax-free unless my billing address is in one of those states you listed, and I do not have a payment method with a billing address in a different state.
Buy an Amazon gift card to pay for it.
I buy with this:
https://www.dansdeals.com/credit-cards/chase-ink-cash-card-earning-5-ultimate-rewards-points-per-dollar-amazon-everyday-spending/
Ok I just bought an Amazon gift card and am using it to pay for the membership, and Amazon is still charging me $8.84 tax. Oh well.
OMG! I had previously set my account to NOT auto-renew my Prime membership, but it seems like Amazon’s terms changed, and you have to keep reactivating this setting on a year-by-year basis. I was charged for Prime on a card that I don’t use, so I wasn’t checking the statement. Now I’m more than a month overdue on this charge…
SNEAKY AMAZON!!!
Any suggestions?
Amazon didn’t like this trick, so they killed it recently, probably in preparation for a price increase:
“Thank you for considering the Gift of Prime. This feature is no longer available. Please see our Amazon gift cards, which can be used to purchase Prime as well as millions of other items on Amazon.”