Amazon Prime Membership is $79 Tomorrow Only, £59 for U.K. Customers Starting Today

[MacRumors]

Amazon is set to cut its Prime annual membership price from $99 for a year to $79 on Friday, November 18. The one-day sale will run from 12am ET until 11:59pm PT and is only available for new members.

Amazon customers in the U.K. can take advantage of a similar promotion beginning today: Anyone who signs up for Amazon Prime between now and the end of Friday will receive a year's subscription for £59 instead of the usual £79 asking price, essentially amounting to three free months of the service.

The promotion coincides with the release of Amazon's new motoring show "The Grand Tour", the first episode of which can be streamed or downloaded on Friday morning by Prime members in the U.K., U.S., Germany, Austria, and Japan. Amazon says the show will be available to watch in 200 countries from December.

The benefits of Prime membership include free one-day delivery on eligible items, access to Amazon Prime Video and Prime Music, unlimited cloud photo storage with Prime Photos, access to the Kindle Owner's Lending Library, and early access to Amazon's Black Friday "lightning" deals.

Members also get an exclusive discount on subscriptions for Amazon's new Music Unlimited streaming service, giving them access to 40 million songs, compared to the 2 million included in the standard Prime Music package.

Article Link: Amazon Prime Membership is $79 Tomorrow Only, £59 for U.K. Customers Starting Today

 

[Alphazoid]

Student Prime is even better. Can't wait to watch the new series.

 

[steveOooo]

Prime rumors?

I can watch prime on my mac and like ipad airplay things.

 

[vmachiel]

Brilliant marketing.

 

[Atlantico]

No thanks, Amazon prime is pretty much worthless, you're basically *paying* for an incentive to buy more from Amazon.

 

[d0minick]

i absolutely loathe when companies do this for new customers. I've been loyal for YEARS. shoot me a discount. Amazon i do not appreciate this.

 

[meaning-matters]

Need see The Grand Tour and will buy.

EDIT: 1 minute and (almost) 1 click later: I'm a Primer

 

[rdas7]

For those who don't know, one of the presenters was fired from the previous show after physically assaulting one of the producers. His tv persona is based on making racist and offensive comments.

I'm all for a bit of entertainment, but what Amazon are basically saying with this show is "As long as you make us money, you can say and do whatever you want in public."

 

[StevieD100]

If 'The grand tour' is so good why haven't Amazon released the first episode to the critics?
Amazon has sunk a stupily large amount of money into this. They can't afford it to fail.
I'll wait for the reviews to come in before I ... oh wait the offer here ends tomorrow.
So they have got you by the short and curlies.
I'll pass. It will be in the interweb an hour after the episode airs.

 

[thasan]

For those who don't know, one of the presenters was fired from the previous show after physically assaulting one of the producers. His tv persona is based on making racist and offensive comments.

I'm all for a bit of entertainment, but what Amazon are basically saying with this show is "As long as you make us money, you can say and do whatever you want in public."

And he just got caught lying about a Spanish airport staff... they were late and he complained the staff was from Argentina and said racist things to him. He might be brilliant but a twisted, racist and narrow minded little man
They had a brilliant show but nah, I can't make myself to watch and help absolute jerks like this
You have your own opinion so I'm not looking for a fight with someone with a different viewpoint.

 

[dan98]

but what Amazon are basically saying with this show is "As long as you make us money, you can say and do whatever you want in public."

This is the most bizarre comment I've read on this site in quite a long time

 

[thasan]

Oh and no Apple TV made me quit prime a few month later ago

 

[Vjosullivan]

They can't afford it to fail.

They can.

 

[asdfasdfasdfasdfa]

Paying 79 bucks for watching top gear or watching it for free a couple of hours later. Hummm I think I'll do the later.

 

[navaira]

Holy monopoly, this is €49 for the first year in the Netherlands. And I believe there's more to it than an abusive man whom I am going to watch approximately never. Tempted.

 

[itsmilo]

No thanks, Amazon prime is pretty much worthless, you're basically *paying* for an incentive to buy more from Amazon.

How is it worthless? I pay 25 Euro a YEAR for next day or even same day delivery in some cities and on top of that free music, unlimited photo storage and heaps of video streaming content which i can even download

 

[upthetoffees]

Holy monopoly, this is €49 for the first year in the Netherlands. And I believe there's more to it than an abusive man whom I am going to watch approximately never. Tempted.

Is this available to users in the Netherlands? What about Belgium?

 

[Jsameds]

Paying 79 bucks for watching top gear or watching it for free a couple of hours later. Hummm I think I'll do the later.

Pay for this bottle of wine from the shop or steal it for free. Hummm I think I'll do the later.


Hmmm...

 

[Kebabselector]

This is the most bizarre comment I've read on this site in quite a long time

True though. Interesting that Sky avoided Clarkson when they had the opportunity to sign him up.

 

[StevieD100]

How is it worthless? I pay 25 Euro a YEAR for next day or even same day delivery in some cities and on top of that free music, unlimited photo storage and heaps of video streaming content which i can even download

25 Euro a year? Care to tell us where that is?
My special offer (sic) was £59 for a year. The Pound/euro exchange rate has not gone that far.

 

[peterh988]

The Grand Tour

subtitled 'You're Torrenting This, Aren't You?'

 

[CarpalMac]

one of the presenters was fired from the previous show

He wasn't fired, his contract was not renewed. The press might not like to admit that as it doesn't sound as juicy - but there is a difference.

 

[ironpony]

I guess we can access Macrumors for all the black Friday sales now or are they just a subsidiary of Amazon? Another article that one can wonder if news worthy or not. - Is there an Apple tv app yet?

"Save $20 on something not accessible on AppleTV".

 

[Scottsoapbox]

There are still people without Amazon Prime!?!

 

[itsmilo]

25 Euro a year? Care to tell us where that is?
My special offer (sic) was £59 for a year. The Pound/euro exchange rate has not gone that far.

its 49€ regularly here and 25 € as a student which they never seem to care to check