Name: What Is Amazon Prime and Is It Worth It?
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So what exactly is Amazon Prime and is it worth the membership fee?

I'm gonna share all the details and as well as some of my best tips on this video

Hey what's up guys is Sean Cannell here and I wanted to do a quick video

with the question that's going around a lot of people wondering what's included in

and what is amazon prime all about as well as is it really worth the membership fee

and so im going to share some of my best tips in this video

and hey at anytime check out show notes and links in the youtube description below

a lot of times I'll include extra all the details in the video plus extra things I forgot

and stuff like that so you can check that out down there

So Amazon Prime is an annual membership from amazon.com that includes shipping benefits

as well as a bunch of other services so I'll go through

service by service first and then I'll share some thoughts on

whether or not it's worth the total investment price

So first and foremost you get free today shipping on qualifying items and it's a lot of items

and so that means you are going to get fast shipping all year long with out paying any

extra for it now you might be saying that there's free

shipping above 25 or 35 dollars on amazon anyways

but one of the nice things about prime is that there's actually no minimum so if you

order one item for ten bucks that qualifies for prime is coming in two

days now there's also free same day shipping in certain zip codes

but that doesn't really apply to a lot of people so that's something that maybe for

you you can research it a little bit the next thing that you get it's amazon in

stream video and this includes unlimited streaming of the movies

and the tv shows that they have available this is something that my wife and I use a

lot so it's valuable to us now obviously one of the competitors in this

space is Netflix they definitely are better I don't know if you can really do one or the

other but you do get a lot of stuff with amazon

instant video and we are seeing new stuff added all the time

and just like all of this services Amazon Prime is starting to have exclusive tv shows

just for prime members and that might be something that is really valuable to you

now the next thing is available is Amazon Prime Music now included in this is over

one million songs and hundreds of playlist that you can stream at free now

some people might not use this at all my wife actually doesn't I personally do and

one of the things that you have to really utilize is I use it

on my mobile phone and so you've got the app or you can download the songs to the phone

or just stream them on your phone ad free and then I also use it on the amazon music

player on the computer and you can play it just like

spotify or anything else and so the library is actually really good

and what I like is I don't personally pay for spotify I don't pay for

Pandora and it hits me with ads all the time so I like to pick a station ad free music

or even just download specific stuff and honestly if you are into

music at all look through the library that is available on prime

now the next thing we actually haven't started using yet but we are super excited about it

it's called Prime Photos So prime members actually have access to unlimited

storage for their photos now this is definitely Important if the quality of your photos matter

to you because you could just upload all your photos to Facebook for free but those aren't

going to be saved in their highest quality Or you can upload them to flicker and you

get a lot of space there but eventually start paying so this is kinda nice to as a way to

back up all your photos We are creating so much content this days

from our mobile phones cameras and all this different stuff and at least just know that

you have a save place unlimited To store them at their highest quality so

we're pumped over the holidays we are actually gonna be going through

and making sure all of our photos are backed up there

now the next thing is prime pantry now I cant speak too much of this but we have used it

a few times and basically you have access to house hold

items detergent we get coffee pots that we buy in

bulk there chips tooth paste, soup I mean kind of things

that could be ship there's also amazon fresh but

that's something different and for one flat rate of I believe 5.99 only prime members

can have access to prime pantry and it's a good deal if you buy enough stuff and it's

showing right at your door and we figure out that for instance if we

bough ten boxes of our coffee pods the discount inside of prime pantry 5 boxes we break even

on the 5.99 price to ship the box out so if we bought 10 we actually save 5 bucks off of

amazon's already low price and so something to search around on but definitely

value if you think that you are going to use it

now this one is pretty legit and it's prime early access now this is huge for things like

black Friday and 12 days of Christmas and all the sales the

lighting deals that amazon does And with prime early access it means that

as a prime member you get to the lighting deals 30 minutes before everybody else

So if you shopped on amazon before when they are offering lighting deals you've probably

seen that they are extreme discount prices compared to amazon already competitive prices

And so the prime member you are really gonna get the ability to add that to your cart first

Now the best items during lighting deals usually go under 2 to 3 minutes and so it means

That almost none prime member on the best stuff

Probably wont even get a shoot at it Now a couple of things here I actually shoot

a video on my best tips and strategies for black Friday

And the holiday shopping on amazon.com so I'll link that up in the YouTube card

That will pop out of the upper right corner Prime is a really worth it during the holidays

and not just because you get the fast shipping when you are ordering things last minute

But because you are able to get the 30 minutes advance on lightening deals and the cool thing

is that if you have never sign up for amazon prime before

You can actually do a 30 day trial during the holidays and get those benefits during

the black Friday sales or the black Friday week and the 12 days of Christmas and all

of that stuff with the Prime early access

And if you ultimately don't think you are going to use all that stuff you can just cancel

after you try it out The last feature I'll mention is the kindle

owners lending library this has access to over 800 000 ebooks

One per month that you get for free but you have to do it on a kindle device so on amazon

phone a kindle fire a kindle tablet So this has been a challenge for us because

they actually do have really good books available there

We do read a lot of books but we had have a kindle we don't have one right now

So we haven't taken advantage of it but if you are a reader and you like reading digitally

you can be getting books That are 10 plus dollars each ebooks and that

would easily pay for it self if you were reading one a month so that's another feature

There's a handful of other features and I'll link to the list in the YouTube description

You can see it on the screen here that you can check out but these are the ones I mention

are definitely the ones I consider the most notable

So how much does prime cost Well right now it cost 99 dollars a year and

so if you break that down that is about 8.29 per month

Now if you compare that to Netflix I believe is 7.99 a month right now so that's gonna