@Eric_Smith08: Amazon Prime costs $139/year. Most members use 2 features: free shipping and Prime Video. That's a $139 subscription do…
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A tweet highlights that most Amazon Prime members only use two features, leaving many benefits unclaimed—including four that expire monthly—and estimates the actual value at over $1,430/year.
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Amazon Prime costs $139/year.
Most members use 2 features: free shipping and Prime Video.
That’s a $139 subscription doing the job of a $5.99 delivery fee.
J.P. Morgan estimates the actual value of Prime benefits at approximately $1,430/year more than 10x the membership cost. But most of that value sits unclaimed behind tabs, menus, and pages 200 million members have never opened.
And 4 of those benefits expire monthly. If you don’t claim them by the end of the month, they’re gone. Amazon resets the clock. You paid for them. You lost them.
Amazon is counting on you not knowing.
Here are the 12 Prime benefits most members have never activated including the 4 that vanish every 30 days
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