Amazon Prime Deal Saturday 1/24 for $72

[red321]

If you don't have Amazon Prime....and seriously...if you don't you should probably be asking yourself why not...it is on sale from the normal $99 price tomorrow for $72.

 

http://deals.kinja.com/amazon-prime-will-be-72-tomorrow-heres-what-that-gets-1681164159/+shaneroberts

 

[Brandon]

Bummer. We just signed up the other day.

[red321]

You might be able to cancel and then sign back up tomorrow. I was considering doing that, but I have a few free months tacked on. Anytime they miss a 2 day delivery, I call them, and they extend my membership by another month.

Edited January 23, 2015 by red321

[Brandon]

Thanks. I'll pass this along. I actually don't know anything about it and the better half set it up and uses it.

[Schildog]

i find amazon's prices to be high nowadays.

[Tank]

what's the advantage to having prime? i shop on amazon maybe once or twice a year.

[Brandon]

I just looked it up because I didn't know either.

free 2 day shipping

A streaming service like Netflix

A book streaming service (it says borrowing service)

[Schildog]

i think the book service is for kindle hardware only though. would be great if it was all platforms. 

Edited January 23, 2015 by Schildog

[Brandon]

You might be able to cancel and then sign back up tomorrow. I was considering doing that, but I have a few free months tacked on. Anytime they miss a 2 day delivery, I call them, and they extend my membership by another month.

She is one step ahead of us.

She texted me back that she used an old college email address so it was only $50.

So peeps, if you have a school email address you can get it for half off.

[Tank]

someone tell me more about the streaming service. do you get charged per movie if you're a prime member, or is it included?

 

my daughter is always looking for new iphone covers from them, and that alone could make it worth the cost.

[Brandon]

The music thing sounds interesting. We use Spotify, but if it's included might be cool.

I think the new flick stream might be cool. The lady asked about getting a movie on there and I now see she may have meant a newer movie for that $4.

[Lou]

Thanks. I'll pass this along. I actually don't know anything about it and the better half set it up and uses it.

 

that's nice of Adam

 

oh wait, you said better

[mp170.6]

A lot of the Prime shipping ends up being 1-day for really common household products if you order early enough, otherwise it's 2-day.  One time I purchased something at 5pm and it arrived the next morning at 11am. 

 

Another perk is that Amazon has Sunday delivery through the post office.  The rest of the time it's a combination of USPS, UPS, FedEx, OnTrac, and Amazon's own delivery vans. 

[Lou]

movies cost money?

[Sully151]

I think my family did 70% of our Christmas shopping on Amazon. The rest was REI and Toys R Us.

As much as I would like to support local record stores, I buy a lot of records through Amazon. Most of the time they come with automatic digital downloads so it also goes to my iTunes.

[2002_halos_II]

i find amazon's prices to be high nowadays.

Agree. A 42' LED TV for over $450? A 32' Dynex for $100 over Best Buy's price!

Most places give you free shipping for items over $35 anyways.

Plus Amazon shipped me a USED phone when it was supposed to be NEW.

[Schildog]

I was using amazon for a while for toiletries. Since I was a prime member I never shopped around. After a while I wondered if I was using it enough. So I paid attention to target prices and realized they were, for the most part, cheaper than amazon.

[gotbeer]

How good are the movies.  I know on Netflix, the movies are like ancient for streaming.  Nothing recent.  Which would be the only selling point for me.  

 

I have also noticed that Amazon is getting expensive.  Bought a Qi Battery case for my Galaxy.  At the time, on Amazon, it was $35.  On Ebay it was $32.  Found a shop in New York through Google Shopping that sold it for $22 including shipping.  

[Schildog]

the blonde was the best part of the wolf....

[red321]

I use the music streaming service constantly...they have a lot of great old blues and jazz. As Cezero mentioned, if you don't listen to top 40, or newer mainstream stuff...good chance they have something for you. I also use the unlimited Photo storage for phone backup seeing as iCloud absolutely sucks and constantly has to be reset.

[NrM]

Netflix has great original content. Amazon doesn't. Basically the only difference.

[Blarg]

if you rarely use it for shopping and you don't use amazon's streaming video service, then it's probably not worth it

i order at least 75% of my non-grocery shit from amazon, so it's great.

and i use amazon instant video way more than netflix now. (for those who don't know, Star Trek: TNG is in HD on Amazon, and just SD for Netflix...GEEK!!!!!)

Hah! The show was shot on film but transferred to one inch analog videotape, not even digital standard Def. All the effect composting was done standard Def, first in online bays using an ADO layering to tape and then in a Quantel Harry/Henry.

I used to make what we called junk mattes to take out the studio rigs so the online guys Fred Raimondi, Rich Thorne and Peter Sternlight (I know I am forgetting a lot of editors) could concentrate on the final composite. They ran, if I remember right, five passes of the Enterprise on motion control cameras for mattes and various lighting passes.

The Next Generation was entirely last generations world of mostly real time video efx composting. It must have been a hell of a lot of work to go back through all of the shot logs and dig through the negatives to remaster. Not sure how they would recreate all of the efx unless they just used the original as a template and started over. Without a doubt they can create much better and more realistic efx for pennies on the dollar for what they spent over 25 years ago. I need to check it out.

[mp170.6]

Existing Amazon Prime members can get the $72 deal.  You have to disable the auto-renew, then purchase Amazon Prime as a gift to yourself.  Enter your own e-mail address as the recipient of the gift, then set the gift date to the day after your existing Amazon Prime membership expires. 

 

I just did this with no problems.  Lots of other people have done the same.  More details below:

 

http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/hot-deals/1423449/m18906268/#m18906268

[NrM]

Netflix has a number of tv shows and movies that amazon has, and vice versa.  I wouldn't get either one of them to replace another.  If you get the deal for $72 or whatever, you're talking $6/month for Amazon streaming, which is actually a couple dollars less than Netflix.  If I were on a tight budget, I'd just keep both and cut the $8 somewhere else.  

 

Personally, I'd put Transparent ahead of either recent season of Netflix's two big shows.  

 

I know that Orange and House of Cards are hugely popular, but I don't understand why.  I liked the first season of House of Cards a lot, but season 2 was ****ing stupid from the get go.  Orange is the New Black feels like something AMC rejected, but still managed to find a home.  

haven't seen transparent. Not really interested in that genre.

 

The other shows I checked out all seem to be generic crappy "network tv" style drama's. 

 

netflix also has BoJack Horseman, which I think is great.

I couldn't really get into Lillyhammer, but it's been well recieved

Edited January 29, 2015 by Poozy

[ELEVEN]

Amazon has Bosch which hasn't been bad. The Prime membership pays for itself bc I hate going to stores.