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03-13-2014, 05:34 PM
Amazon Raises Prime to $99 per Year
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Amazon has an**unced that it will raise the price of its Prime membership to $99 starting on June 14.
In an email to Prime members, Amazon (http://mashable.com/category/amazon/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) identified rising fuel and transportation costs along with a growing stable of products eligible for the program's unlimited two-day shipping as factors in the price increase. Amazon Prime currently costs $79 per year.
New Prime members will begin paying the higher price on March 20, while existing members will begin renewing at $99 on April 17. It is the first price hike in Prime's nine-year history.
A price increase was first floated (http://mashable.com/2014/01/30/amazon-prime-cost-increase/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) by the company during the most recent investor call following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report. The $20 price increase is on the lower end of what Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak discussed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/amazon-prime-99-year/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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Amazon has an**unced that it will raise the price of its Prime membership to $99 starting on June 14.
In an email to Prime members, Amazon (http://mashable.com/category/amazon/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) identified rising fuel and transportation costs along with a growing stable of products eligible for the program's unlimited two-day shipping as factors in the price increase. Amazon Prime currently costs $79 per year.
New Prime members will begin paying the higher price on March 20, while existing members will begin renewing at $99 on April 17. It is the first price hike in Prime's nine-year history.
A price increase was first floated (http://mashable.com/2014/01/30/amazon-prime-cost-increase/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) by the company during the most recent investor call following the company's fourth-quarter earnings report. The $20 price increase is on the lower end of what Amazon CFO Tom Szkutak discussed. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/03/13/amazon-prime-99-year/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)
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