无论您以前是否从亚马逊订购(ordered from Amazon)过，您都可能听说过Amazon Prime。亚马逊(Amazon)的付费订阅在防止客户转向其他竞争对手方面发挥了关键作用。对于许多买家来说，两天内免费甚至第二天只需几美元就能买到您的商品，这让他们对亚马逊(Amazon)保持忠诚。
如果这就是亚马逊 Prime(Amazon Prime)提供的一切，那么亚马逊要求订阅的钱就不值得了。然而，亚马逊 Prime(Amazon Prime)并不全是关于快速交付。它具有许多不同的好处，包括娱乐津贴、产品优惠和独家折扣。
让我们分解一下您通过Amazon Prime获得的确切内容以及它是否物有所值。
什么是亚马逊 Prime？(What Is Amazon Prime?)
Amazon Prime是亚马逊的付费订阅，(Amazon)可为用户提供某些好处。好处包括各种快速交付选项，以及流媒体音乐和视频等娱乐内容。
它要多少钱？(How Much Does It Cost?)
Amazon Prime的费用取决于您选择的计划。
首先(First)，您可以每 12 个月开始免费试用Amazon的 30 天。这样，如果您发现Prime提供的好处值得您以后必须支付的价格，您就可以亲眼看到。
请记住，亚马逊(Amazon)会在您首次注册时保留您的信用卡信息。因此，如果您不想购买订阅但忘记手动取消订阅，亚马逊(Amazon)将在您的免费试用期到期后开始向您收费。
亚马逊 Prime(Amazon Prime)订阅分为以下几层：
- Prime Video每月 8.99 美元。此订阅仅限于娱乐领域，包括无限制的视频和音乐流媒体服务、无限制的阅读和照片存储。
- Prime 月(Prime monthly)费为每月 12.99 美元。您仍然可以获得订阅的全部好处，但会分散您的付款。但是，此计划将比Prime年度费用高出约 37 美元。
- Prime 年(Prime annual)费为每年 119 美元。对于那些想要享受Prime的全部好处并支付更少费用的人。
- 如果您是学生并且可以访问大学电子邮件，则可以获得特殊的Prime Student计划。在最初的六个月免费试用后，每月收费 6.49 美元。
您还可以通过Amazon Household与朋友和家人分享 Amazon Prime 优惠，(share Amazon Prime benefits with friends and family)这将是一个更好的交易。
如何获得亚马逊 Prime(How To Get Amazon Prime)
要加入Amazon Prime，请按照以下步骤操作。
- 在您的电脑或智能手机上打开亚马逊。(Amazon)
- (Sign in)如果您已经注册了亚马逊账户(Amazon)，请登录，或者创建一个新的亚马逊(Amazon)账户。
- 从菜单中选择您的帐户(Your Account)，然后单击 Prime >查看更多计划(See More Plans)。
- 选择一项(Choose one)特别优惠，或单击查看更多计划(See More Plans)以查看所有Amazon Prime订阅选项。选择一个并单击开始您的 30 天免费试用(Start Your 30-day Free Trial)。
填写付款详细信息并确认您的会员资格后，您将成为Amazon Prime用户。
亚马逊 Prime 能为您带来什么？(What Do You Get With Amazon Prime?)
除了 2 天免费送货之外，Amazon Prime还提供了几十种其他优惠，通常可以分为三组。让我们来看看这些福利，以便您决定Amazon Prime是否值得。
送货和运输津贴(The Delivery & Shipping Perks)
除了 2 天免费送货和选定商品的当日送达外，亚马逊 Prime(Amazon Prime)用户还可以访问Prime Now。该功能允许您在订购商品后一小时内收到商品。在一些城市，这也包括杂货。
评估仅Amazon Prime的运输优势对您来说是否物有所值的一个好方法是查看您每年的运输费用是否超过 119 美元。
娱乐津贴(The Entertainment Perks)
Amazon Prime包括一系列娱乐福利。这里的主要是Prime Video和Prime Music。与其他流媒体服务相比，Prime 比标准的 Netflix 或 Hulu(Prime is cheaper than the standard Netflix or Hulu)计划便宜。同时，Prime Music不会像订阅 Spotify Premium那样花费你那么多。(Spotify Premium)
这一切都取决于您是否发现Amazon Prime提供的视频和音频内容的选择范围足够广泛，可以放弃其他服务并完全迁移到Prime。如果答案是肯定的，那么从长远来看，通过获得Prime(Prime)会员资格，您将在娱乐上节省很多钱。
Prime 阅读(Prime Reading)是您通过Prime获得的另一项服务。它允许免费无限制地使用超过一千本书、杂志和其他内容。Kindle上的全价书平均约为 10 美元。如果您是重度读者，并且倾向于每月购买和阅读至少一本书，Amazon Prime每年可为您节省超过 100 美元。
对于游戏玩家，亚马逊(Amazon)提供Twitch Prime将您的流媒体成瘾提升到一个新的水平。好处包括无广告观看Twitch流、访问免费游戏以及您想要购买的游戏的 亚马逊特别折扣。(Amazon)
最后但并非最不重要的一点是，您可以通过Prime Photos(Prime Photos)充分利用您的Prime会员资格，在亚马逊的云中提供无限的照片存储。
特别优惠和折扣(Special Deals & Discounts)
Prime用户享有相当多的亚马逊(Amazon)独家折扣。例如，如果您经常在Whole Foods购物，您会很高兴知道使用Amazon Prime ，您可以在所有(Amazon Prime)Whole Foods商店 的选定商品上享受 10% 的折扣。
在Amazon上，您还可以作为Prime用户提前访问Lightning Deals 。不过，您仍然必须快速抢到一笔好交易，因为与非Prime用户相比，您只需多花 30 分钟。
如果您使用的是 Amazon Echo 或 Echo Dot(using Amazon Echo or Echo Dot)，您可以使用Prime将(Prime)Alexa变成您的购物助手。您可以要求您的数字助理从亚马逊(Amazon)为您购买商品。节省您在网上购物的时间和精力。
亚马逊Prime值得吗？ (Is Amazon Prime Worth It? )
与任何其他高级(Premium)订阅一样，您是唯一可以决定Amazon Prime是否值得您购买的人。虽然它确实带来了许多好处，但如果您不能利用它们，您可能会发现它们非常有用或完全没有意义。
好消息是，您可以免费试用Amazon Prime并随时取消它，以防万一您感到失望（而且您甚至不必删除您的 Amazon 帐户(delete your Amazon account)来执行此操作）。
您认为Amazon Prime物有所值吗？作为订阅的一部分，您最常使用哪些 Prime服务？(Which Prime)在下面的评论中与我们分享(Share)您的Amazon Prime体验。
Is Amazon Prime Worth The Cost?
Whether yоυ’ve ordered from Amazon before or not, you’ve probably heard of Amazon Prime. Amazon’s paid subscription pays a crucial role in keeping customers from shifting to other competitors. For many buyers the ability to get your items in two days for free or even the next day for just a few bucks is what keeps them loyal to Amazon.
If that was everything Amazon Prime offered, it wouldn’t be worth the money that Amazon’s asking for the subscription. However, Amazon Prime isn’t all about fast delivery. It comes with a number of different benefits, including entertainment perks, product deals, and exclusive discounts.
Let’s break down what exactly you get with Amazon Prime and whether it’s worth the cost.
What Is Amazon Prime?
Amazon Prime is a paid subscription from Amazon that gives users certain benefits. The benefits include a variety of fast delivery options, as well as entertainment content like streaming music and video.
How Much Does It Cost?
The cost of Amazon Prime varies depending on what plan you choose.
First of all, every 12 months you can start a free 30-day trial of Amazon. That way you can see for yourself if you find the benefits that Prime offers are worth the price you’ll have to pay later.
Just remember that Amazon keeps your credit card information when you first sign up. So if you don’t want to buy the subscription but forget to manually cancel it, Amazon will start charging you once your free trial expires.
Amazon Prime subscription comes in the following tiers:
- Prime Video is $8.99 per month. This subscription is limited to the entertainment sector and includes unlimited video and music streaming services, unlimited reading, and photo storage.
- Prime monthly is $12.99 per month. You still get the full benefits of the subscription, but spread out your payments instead. However, this plan will cost you about $37 more than Prime annual.
- Prime annual is $119 per year. For those who want to enjoy the full benefits of Prime and pay less.
- If you’re a student and have access to a university email, you can get a special Prime Student plan. It’s $6.49 per month after an original six-months free trial.
You can also share Amazon Prime benefits with friends and family via Amazon Household making it an even better deal.
How To Get Amazon Prime
To join Amazon Prime, follow the steps.
- Open Amazon on your computer or smartphone.
- Sign in if you already have a registered Amazon account, or create a new Amazon account.
- Select Your Account from the menu and click Prime > See More Plans.
- Choose one of the special offers, or click See More Plans to view all Amazon Prime subscription options. Pick one and click Start Your 30-day Free Trial.
Once you fill in your payment details and confirm your membership, you become an Amazon Prime user.
What Do You Get With Amazon Prime?
On top of the 2-day free shipping, Amazon Prime comes with a few dozen other perks that can be generally divided into three groups. Let’s take a look at those perks so you can decide if Amazon Prime is worth it.
The Delivery & Shipping Perks
Aside from the 2-day free shipping and the same-day delivery on selected items, Amazon Prime users get access to Prime Now. The feature allows you to receive the items as soon as an hour after you order them. In some cities, that includes groceries too.
A good way to assess whether the shipping benefits alone of Amazon Prime are worth the money for you is to see if you spend more than $119 in shipping per year.
The Entertainment Perks
Amazon Prime includes a selection of entertainment benefits. The main ones here are Prime Video and Prime Music. Compared to other streaming services, Prime is cheaper than the standard Netflix or Hulu plan. At the same time, Prime Music won’t cost you as much as the Spotify Premium subscription.
It all comes down to whether you find the selection of video and audio content that Amazon Prime offers wide enough to forsake the other services and fully migrate to Prime. If the answer is yes, then you’ll save quite a lot of money on entertainment in the long run by getting Prime membership.
Prime Reading is another service that you get with Prime. It allows for free unlimited use of over a thousand books, magazines, and other content. A full-price book on Kindle is about $10 on average. If you’re a heavy reader and tend to buy and read at least one book per month, Amazon Prime can potentially save you over $100 a year.
For gamers, Amazon offers to take your streaming addiction to the next level with Twitch Prime. The benefits include viewing Twitch streams ad-free, access to free games, and special Amazon discounts on games you’re looking to buy.
Last but not least, you can take advantage of your Prime membership with Prime Photos that offers unlimited photo storage in Amazon’s cloud.
Special Deals & Discounts
Prime users enjoy quite a lot of exclusive Amazon discounts. For example, if you often shop at Whole Foods, you’ll be happy to know that with Amazon Prime you get 10% off on selected items at all Whole Foods stores.
On Amazon, you also get early access to Lightning Deals as a Prime user. You still have to be quick to snatch a good deal though, since it’s just a 30 minutes extra that you get compared to a non-Prime user.
If you’re using Amazon Echo or Echo Dot, you can turn Alexa into your shopping assistant with Prime. You can request your digital assistant to buy items for you from Amazon. Saves you time and effort on online shopping.
Is Amazon Prime Worth It?
Like with any other Premium subscription, you’re the only one who can decide whether Amazon Prime is worth it for you. While it does come with many perks, you might either find them very useful or completely pointless if you can’t take advantage of them.
The good news is, you can try Amazon Prime for free and cancel it anytime in case you get disappointed (and you don’t even have to delete your Amazon account to do that).
Do you think Amazon Prime is worth the cost? Which Prime services do you use most as part of your subscription? Share your Amazon Prime experience with us in the comments below.
