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PSA: Amazon Prime Memberships Are 27% Off, Today Only

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Post by percept » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 5:41 PM UTC

PSA: Amazon Prime Memberships Are 27% Off, Today Only
techcrunch.com

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Post by DiabloD3 » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC

Any way to force renew early?

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#3

Post by seanfisher » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 5:50 PM UTC

For students, it's 6 months free and a discount of 50%! http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info

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#4

Post by doomspork » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

Any way to force renew early?

If you read the article in it's entirety you'll see it specifically mentions current customers are not eligible for the promotion.

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Post by covercash » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 5:59 PM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

Any way to force renew early?

The discount is for new members only.

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#6

Post by yrral » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 6:03 PM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

Any way to force renew early?

Go here [1]. Click End membership. Select the option to end later. Note the day your membership ends.

Then go here [2] and buy for yourself as a gift for the day after your membership ends.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/primecentral/editMembership/ref=pc...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/gp/prime/pipeline/prime_gifting_landi...

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Post by vermooten » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 6:21 PM UTC

Not in the UK...

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#8

Post by vermooten » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 6:21 PM UTC

Not in the UK...

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#9

Post by nana_gb » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 6:46 PM UTC

The link to Amazon Prime in that article is an affiliate link. Here's the part that gives it away ?tag=slicinc-20

If this was intentional it's basically an ad for Amazon without a disclosure.

If it was unintentional, they just linked to amazon with a random person's amazon affiliate link, and probably made them quite a bit of cash.

Re: PSA: Amazon Prime Memberships Are 27% Off, Today Only

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Post by nana_gb » Sat, Jan 24, 2015, 7:43 PM UTC

nana_gb wrote: post #9

The link to Amazon Prime in that article is an affiliate link. Here's the part that gives it away ?tag=slicinc-20 If this was intentional it's basically an ad for Amazon without a disclosure. If it was unintentional, they just linked to amazon with a random person's amazon affiliate link, and probably made them quite a bit of cash.

Update: It looks like the author of the article, found the deal via slickdeals and used it on Techcrunch without realizing it was an affiliate link.

It's been removed with an attribution link to slickdeals added at the bottom of the article.

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