What is Amazon Prime? Easily explained
Amazon Prime is the premium account of the mail order company Amazon. We'll show you what it's all about here.
Advantages of online shopping with Prime
For an Amazon Prime membership, there are annual costs of 49 euros (from February 2017 69 euros), for students the account costs 24 euros (34 euros from February) per year. You can use the service for 30 days in a free trial membership.
- The best-known advantage of Amazon Prime is the free premium shipping. This guarantees that your delivery will reach you within one day of dispatch. In addition, the shipping of orders under a value of 29 euros with Amazon Prime is free.
- With the flash offers on Amazon, you can reserve the bargains 30 minutes before the other users with a Prime account. You also have a pre-sale right at Amazon BuyVIP.
- On Amazon Prime Day, only Prime customers had access to special bargains.
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Amazon Prime and Prime Instant Video
With an Amazon Prime Account you also have direct access to the range of Amazon Instant Video. This is a streaming provider for movies and TV series. If you only want to use the streaming offer and not the other advantages of Prime membership, you can also subscribe to Instant Video individually.
As a student, you can take advantage of the Amazon Student offer. We have summarized the most important membership data for you.