Today , the fateful news come down that Amazon will finallyincrease the costof anAmazon Primemembership . Horrors ! Except , not really . Because even at $ 99 a year , Amazon Prime is still the unmarried biggest bargain in technical school .
https://gizmodo.com/from-next-week-amazon-prime-will-cost-99-a-year-1542920021
On the typeface of it , the increase from $ 79 to $ 99 seems dramatic . That ’s a 25 percent bump , not even pegged to any gaudy new offering . It ’s the same Prime , just … more expensive . If a gas place or your barber or the subway ( or Subway ) or basically anyone else hike up their price by that much overnight , you would be justifiably outraged . But Amazon Prime is n’t anyone else .
We’vebeen through this before , but it ’s worth recount what that $ 99 per year—$8.25 per calendar month , or as I like to call it , “ fundamentally a sandwich”—gets you . liberal two - twenty-four hours cargo ships , yes , but also sleazy nightlong transport . Access to Prime Instant Video , a streaming service that ’s gotten a lot respectable since the last time you checked , and now includes exclusive rightfulness to Justified , Downton Abbey , Orphan Black , and a gang of other shows your friends keep telling you to watch . entrance into the Kindle Owners ’ Lending Library , which come to getting a barren book every month . And all of that is go to be joined in the very near future by astreaming music service .
pay eight buck a month for all of that is more than pay $ 6.50 a month for it , sure . Yay , math ! But it ’s also still harebrained . Like , wildcat - face unhinged . Like , you - would - charter - Crispin - Glover - to - play - it - in - a - moving-picture show wild .
Let ’s put this one other direction . You pay eight bucks a month for Netflix . Pretty soon Prime , also eight bucks a calendar month , will be Netflix plus Pandora plus free merchant vessels plus free ebook . It ’s your own personal budget Voltron , and less than two Pearl Sydenstricker Buck more a month does n’t change that .
Still not convinced ? Here ’s a final dollop of position . Until now , Amazon Prime has be the same as it did when it first launched — and when it only offered only free shipping — nine age ago . That is absurd ! Adjusted for inflation , $ 79 in 2005 come out to about $ 95 in 2014 money . Which means that the literal - money growth since Amazon deliver Prime is four dollars a year — thirty three cents per month — for which you get the add benefits of streaming , and books , and ( probably ) music , and whatever else is come down the line .
So yes , Amazon Prime is about to be more expensive . But you do it what ? It ’s still a bargain . And you ’d be crazy to quit now .
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