If you pay annually, that boils down to $12 a month, about the cost of a streaming video service such as Hulu or Netflix. If you pay your Amazon Prime membership in full (the least expensive route), it’s an annual $139 hit. To make matters worse, part of those layoffs are affecting Amazon’s Alexa division, a tool many Amazon Prime members use to place orders. Amazon having judged this a second event a success, look for a repeat in 2023.īut as Amazon made deep cuts to its leadership team with a layoff of around 10,000 positions late this year, experts are predicting that could be a major disruption for Amazon, possibly leading to customer service issues. And this year, there were two big Prime “days,” with Amazon doing a bonus discount Prime Early Access Sale in October, two days that ended up kicking off the 2022 holiday shopping season.

That’s your first reason to reconsider, even if Amazon Prime Day, that annual summer blockbuster sale with its 48-hour marathon of deals, deals, deals, remains a temptation.

If you pay monthly, that clip went from $12.99 to $14.99 a month, or $180 a year. And then Amazon went and raised its yearly subscription fee by 17% earlier in 2022, from $119 to $139.

Is it time to re-evaluate? After all, you’re likely up to your neck in other subscription services, too: cable TV, streaming services such as Netflix, Disney+ and Spotify, maybe meal-prep services, gift boxes… gift boxes for your dog.

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