Maximizing A New Amazon Prime Membership

A number of readers have just signed up for new Amazon Prime memberships to take advantage of the 20% off deal when you use an American Express Membership Rewards point. Given that Amazon Prime Day is later this month it’s probably the only time of year that makes sense to get the more expensive one month memberships.  In this post we will look at other things you can do to make the most of your new membership. The below post does contain our affiliate links, but as always we will tell you about better deals when available.

Getting Prime

Before you sign up for prime there is a few things to be aware of.

Deals

Now that you have Prime there are a number of deals that are available to you that weren’t before. Here is unfinished list, I’m sure I’m missing some deals so please let me know what deals I’m missing so I can add them.

As I said, I’m sure I’m missing some deals so let me know in the comments what needs to be added.
    William Charles
  • On July 4, 2018, 08:30

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  • What an asinine policy Amazon has instituted on customer reviews:

    "To write a Customer Review, you must have used your account to make at least $50.00 in purchases in the past 12 months on Amazon.com with a valid credit or debit card. Once your order has shipped, you'll be able to write your first customer review. (Promotional discounts don't count toward the $50.00 minimum.)"

    So you can't even write a review about a defective product, if you've been paying mostly with Amazon GCs (acquired at discounts).

  • The free Washington Post Digital Subscription pairs with an Acorns App Found Money of $10 invested back.
    This directly from a supervisor of marketing at Washington Post,
    "Our found money offer through Acorns and Acorns Later Retirement IRAS are going to be off and on over the next year to increase readership accounts. Our partners at Wall Street Journal are offering a same Found Money back on even there $0.99 Digital only for new subscribers. We look to be bringing our offer back end of July."
    So get your Prime Trial now, but wait to activate the new subscription when the offer comes back on Acorns App clicking through it to sign up.

    Also I hate this next company with a passion so let's all take there money, Ebates has the now standard $10 cash back on new account signup. They also give 2% on ebay purchases.
    PayPal has a not as well known Digital Gift Card Store found in the site map or by google. They also have a little known, as it's unadvertised promotion of $5 on a $25 gift card purchase. They also have an ACH/EFT First time deposit per source promotion of $5, There is a generic what's called in house as a T-Code to fund your paypal balance from non-government,retirement, or traditional Bank account Deposit for this promotion. Now you may have to place a 5 minute phone call to call attention to this promotion by way of Generic Source T-Code for the PayPal agent to have a way to lookup, justify, and grant both of these.
    Using your new ebates account, you simply portal to PayPals digital retail gift card storefront, buying a $25 ebay gift card.
    This now satisfies earning your $10 join bonus, and $5 egc purchase through ebates and PayPal respectively.
    Taking that eBay egc, wait until a 5% promotion pops up on ebates(even more by flipping to ebay Found Money 1% in Acorns App as ebates shopping trip opens ebay app for fulfillment,Acorns prompts how you open eBay by in app browser, or in app ebay app that's already open for ebates,yes it's a few extra clicks for minimum of $0.25 invested back but every penny here counts)
    But either way, portal through, spend your $25 ebay egc, earn back at least $1.25 to ebates, this purchase also kicks the ebates $10 startup in the butt in case they alter there minimum 25$ spend to disqualify gift cards. With that deposit linked to your PayPal as a non traditional ACH/EFT Deposit, once that minimum $11.25 clears to PayPal, with your already earned $5 egc purchase from PayPal in there virtual gc store, that last step of having the 2nd qualified $5 PayPal promotion is now ready to be initiated.
    This gives you both $5 PayPal, the $10 ebates new account bonus linked to payout to your PayPal anyway, if on a good day the extra $1.25 from spending the eBay egc bought in PayPal egc storefront, potentially another $0.25 minimum found money into your Acorns too, and you end up with $21.25 back in your PayPal just for spending $25 through PayPal, which then a say minded individual would not only be getting $21.25, plus $25 worth of any ebay merchandise, netting your money back 100%, A profit of $21.25 (Negative $25 spent on egc, after promotions you're at negative $3.75 now, add in $25 spent at eBay you are now at profit of -$3.75+$25=+$21.25).
    Herein lies the greatest part. Use that $25 ebay egc to buy the best value priced major credit card endorsed prepaid debit card, let's say you find a $26.50 Virtual Visa for $25 total on a BuyItNow.
    You do a send money transaction from your new PayPal account created to run this series of new customer earned promotions to your Primary account, the fee for that is around $1.50, leaving a solid $25 back in the original PayPal account used to transfer the initial funds that funded this entire deal totem pole.
    That means you end up not spending a penny, and only 30 minutes time said and done to put pure cash profit free account to account transfer from new to primary, leaving a viable $21.25 profit cash, original $25 paid back in full, plus at least $0.25 found money into your Acorn Account.
    Now yes doing all this once seems a little bit skewed at a $21.25 profit for 30-45 minutes work.
    Which is why you create 20 emails, 20 paypal and ebates accounts, in a list, all communication is copy and pasted so it's only written once.
    EXPONENTIAL PROFIT GROWTH, for what becomes 4 hours work, your pure profit goes to $425. And if clever enough, 19 ebates accounts have bonus $10 referral payouts from the initial sub-master account, which can net another $190 cash profit all said and done.
    Which, if you put in the maybe 6 total hours by the end of the deposits, and promotion requests emails sent off to paypal within each account, you are looking at never spending more than the first $25 to startup your Sunday part time venture, earned back, and you just netted $615.00 minimum pure cash profit for approximately 6 hours of time as you do new icognito tabs and keep the list in order and organized, and you make about $102.50 an hour, on your $615 minimum cash earnings.

    Nothing violating any user agreement with any of the companies and promotions. No law dictates amount of email addresses owned. No law dictates with verbal confirmation the use of friends, family, neighbors or commercial addresses. No law dictates you must use your legal given full name on a PayPal account, Ebates account, email account, as you are not spamming or vishibg, or phishing. Nothing malicious is being done. A good therapist will tell you that your best friend should be yourself, thus friend referrals are legit. PayPal currently is offering a referral bonus also if you want to go full out, I believe is another $5 per, on 19 accounts, for an additional $95 profit earnings, pushing you over $700 in profit.

    Note this is an opinion, based solely on hypotheticals and has not been researched nor endorsed by myself, as this is merely a series of objectionable, yet legally sound through process of logic deduction from available information that is being interpreted by another average random consumer like yourself. I have no formal marketing, law, or business ethics legal boundary training or school certification. Just because something has worked to my success, does not mean your experience will duplicate mine by nature of right to terminate promotion clauses found at each affected companies user agreement. I may also be entitled to certain lifting of restrictions based on my Charity Foundation as the beneficiary of earned incomes in this manner. Because my earnings don't surpass $5,000 from one funding source I am not liable in Indiana to file a 1099-MISC or claim owed taxes due to Luxury tax laws, your city, state, or attorney would provide more accurate of an outcome for you. Again this is hypothetical suggestions based on accrued earning of applied profit using simple math, and current available promotions that in theory of putting into action would yield these hypothetical results for anyone wanting to confirm the legality and infer these hypothesized actions as viable means of financial earning. Thank you for enjoying my fictional scenario based stories, drawn from non-fictional realities of aggregate profit ROI. I am in no way responsible for your actions, regardless of real or imagined outcomes. I do appreciate donations for my literature to continue to fund my non-profit organization and the programs we provide to over 12 Inpatient hospitals across Northern Indiana. That can be done at
    https://www.paypal.me/skykidsfoundation

  • Hopefully all cardholders are aware of this by now, but if you've swiped $5000 through your Barclays Uber Visa, then you get a $50 credit towards "qualifying digital subscriptions", Amazon Prime being one of them.

  • Topcashback has raised their Prime purchase offer back to the $15 Amazon GC... just saw it... John 3:16

  • If you use the iBotta app, they're currently offering a $20 Amazon GC for signing up for a yearly Prime subscription.

  • Because I’m in Hawaii I can’t take advantage of the full benefits of prime. I wish they’d give us a lower membership price. Haha

  • Don't forget a price tracking site like camelcamelcamel. I've used them for years and while there's alternatives it's still my go-to for fishing out the best prices on things I can wait on. With a Prime membership you won't have to deal with minimum shipping requirements and can buy as soon as the price drops, which at times is only for a few minutes.

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