Amazon Prime, Two Different Prices?

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#311470 18-Jan-2024 15:44

I generally try check my streaming and other subscriptions from time to time. However I'm curious about Amazon Prime.

Now I've had it for quite a long time, I mistakenly signed up for it when Disney+ launched, it was a week before I realised they were different 🤣

Either way, we watch enough of it. However, I've paid about $25 for the whole time, whereas I see $8 advertised. I'm trying to work out what the difference is? I understand it occasionally means shipping of purchase from Amazon are free, and I looked up before to see I have access to books, music and storage. None of which I've used!

There is a video component as well, but I assume some of that stuff is geo-locked and doesn't make a difference between if you have the $8 vs $25.

I rarely purchase enough stuff on Amazon to justify free shipping. Am I missing something?

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#3183576 18-Jan-2024 15:53

As you say there is the 2 options, Video only for ~$8 and Video + Free shipping for more.

NZ can't really take advantage of the Prime free shipping and amazon says they will not sign you up to amazon prime from amazon.com.au if you have an NZ shipping address.

I suspect you may have signed up to Amazon prime from amazon.com??

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#3183580 18-Jan-2024 16:10

Note that the Streaming service is "primevideo.com"; albeit you sign in with Amazon.com credentials.

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#3183603 18-Jan-2024 17:06

KrazyKid:

I suspect you may have signed up to Amazon prime from amazon.com??

Yes I've had an Amazon.com account as long as I've had a kindle, which must be 12-13 years now.

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#3183619 18-Jan-2024 18:17

You are halfway there.

Amazon Prime US is the delivery service, and with the subscription, you also get Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Photo Storage and a few more things.

You can get the Amazon Prime Video by itself, but it's really hard to find the signup page on the Amazon .com site because they push the more expensive one.

You can get the Amazon Prime Video in New Zealand, if your account is AU/NZ.

The main difference is content.

You won't have video rental or purchase, only the free to Prime TV series and movies
You will find some TV series om the AU/NZ service that don't exist in the US service. The reason for that is that in the USA some of these series are only available through the original networks (think NBC, AMC, etc) so you need to have the extra subscription on top of the Amazon Prime Video for those accounts.

To access the USA account in New Zealand you need to be using a third-party service (DNS or proxy). We do not discuss these in public. There is a private forum for these.

You can change your account from USA to AU/NZ but will lose access to Prime services. You can cancel your Prime services before changing, then subscribe to Amazon Prime Video with access to the AU/NZ content.

If you paid US Prime services once a year then you will receive a pro-rata refund on the credit card used to pay for it. I know, I've done this a few months ago, to take advantage of the free Amazon Prime Video part of the 2degrees broadband service (six months of Prime Video on signing a 12 month contract).

To change from US to AU/NZ you log into your Amazon .com account and go to the devices and content page and change the country there. It's instant.

As I mentioned you lose access to any video purchase you had but these will be there if you change the country back to US, but then again only visible if using a third-party service.

Any Kindle purchases will remain on your Kindle and you can sill buy content from either .com or .com.au. If you have a gift card balance in the US this will remain valid and can be used to buy things there (including the Kindle content).

That pretty much cover everything.

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#3183826 19-Jan-2024 09:47

I have a Prime Video sub for $4.49 a month which I signed up for via Apple Subscriptions when it first launched in NZ which just keeps on renewing, so I'll be interested to see what happens when the ad supported tier comes in

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#3183828 19-Jan-2024 09:53

dougierydal:

I have a Prime Video sub for $4.49 a month which I signed up for via Apple Subscriptions when it first launched in NZ which just keeps on renewing, so I'll be interested to see what happens when the ad supported tier comes in

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#3188796 31-Jan-2024 11:56

Just got an email, the $8 is going up to 10.99 in March

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#3188798 31-Jan-2024 12:09

And then another 5 or 6 to avoid ads ? But surely no one would dream of doing such a thing...

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#3188803 31-Jan-2024 12:17

Zigg: Just got an email, the $8 is going up to 10.99 in March

I got one too this morning.

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#3188810 31-Jan-2024 12:29

rb99:
And then another 5 or 6 to avoid ads ? But surely no one would dream of doing such a thing...

There was no mention of an additional charge to avoid ads in the email. Ads weren't mentioned.

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#3188812 31-Jan-2024 12:36

Stu:
rb99:

And then another 5 or 6 to avoid ads ? But surely no one would dream of doing such a thing...

There was no mention of an additional charge to avoid ads in the email. Ads weren't mentioned.

Yet. Maybe NZ is too small to bother with. We can but hope.

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#3188834 31-Jan-2024 14:16

rb99:

Yet. Maybe NZ is too small to bother with. We can but hope.

Yeah, I thought the places that were getting ads were staying the same price, with the extra charge to remove ads. Guessing NZ won't get ads (most likely too hard to setup reputable ad relationships for the market?), so we just have to pay the extra charge.

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#3188871 31-Jan-2024 16:11

Could a Prime(NZ) subscriber can confirm if Battlestar Galactica(2004) is available on Prime Video?...thanks.

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#3188874 31-Jan-2024 16:19

freitasm:

To access the USA account in New Zealand you need to be using a third-party service (DNS or proxy). We do not discuss these in public. There is a private forum for these.

You can change your account from USA to AU/NZ but will lose access to Prime services. You can cancel your Prime services before changing, then subscribe to Amazon Prime Video with access to the AU/NZ content.

To be honest, I don't think I'm accessing any US material. I'm pretty sure it's just NZ content at the higher price in order to get the other Amazon "benefits".

I should have a decent look and see how hard it is to switch as per your advice.

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#3188877 31-Jan-2024 16:29

MrBBEye:

Could a Prime(NZ) subscriber can confirm if Battlestar Galactica(2004) is available on Prime Video?...thanks.

Doesn't appear to be...

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