Amazon is always looking for ways to boost the numbers of Amazon Prime customers, whether that’s by holding a Black Friday-like “Prime Day” sales event or bundling in subscriptions alongside Amazon hardware, as it attempted with the launch of its own Fire Phone devices. This morning, the online retailer has a new gimmick – its dropping the price for Amazon Prime to just $67 in a one-day sale starting on Friday, September 25th at 12:01 AM ET, and ending at 11:59 PM PT. The company says the sale will last for only 24 hours, as it’s a limited time offer. Why $67, you ask? The figure is in reference to Amazon’s five Emmy wins at this year’s 67th PrimeTime Emmy Awards, the company says – and this is its way of celebrating. Amazon’s Original Series “Transparent” saw its star Jeffrey Tambor taking home the trophy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series, while “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway won for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. The show, which focuses on a father coming out as transgender to his family, is the second Amazon program to win an Emmy. However, the first was a Daytime Emmy win for “Tumble Leaf,” which scored five trophies, including Outstanding Preschool Children’s Animated Program. By tying the Amazon Emmy wins to a sale on Prime memberships, Amazon has a chance to promote its Amazon Prime Instant Video service to customers who may now only be hearing about the company’s efforts in producing television thanks to the mainstream attention generated by the awards ceremony. The Prime Instant Video service, a competitor to Netflix, offers Prime subscribers a growing selection of video content, including original programming like Amazon Original Series “Hand of God,” “Bosch,” “Catastrophe” and “Mozart in the Jungle,” in addition to other popular shows, like a number of titles from HBO, kid’s programming from Nickelodeon, and hit movies like “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” “Star Trek Into Darkness” and “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” and more. Typically, Amazon Prime memberships, which also include free, 2-day shipping on over 20 million items, access to the Kindle Lending Library, Prime Music, unlimited photo storage, and more, cost $99. That means this price drop is actually a pretty good deal for those looking to sign up. The offer is available at Amazon.com/TransparentPrime. FEATURED IMAGE: STEPHEN WOODS/FLICKR UNDER A CC BY 2.0 LICENSE http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/22/amazon-prime-memberships-drop-to-67-on-friday-only/
That's some bullshit, mine was $99.00. AND the Kindle Fire Stick is a piece of shit unless you love buffering.
I love buffering there's nothing better than waiting for your video to load Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk
If you just got the membership hit them up. Amazon customer service is very generous. As for the Fire Stick, how far away from the router are you? If you use 5GHZ to connect switch to the standard 2.4GHZ as it offers a wider range.
I tried a longer hdmi cable extension to get the stick further away from the tv , I will check the router, thanks.
Mute is this worth it if you aren't using Amazon that much? I buy maybe a total of 10-20 times from amazon and each time I make sure the total is above $35 and qualify for free shipment.
If you don't have Netflix already it might be worth it for the free streaming video and stuff. I looked at their catalog and decided I had like 95% of it already through Netflix and didn't see a point but you might.
well with prime you get free movies and tv shows. Free books if you have kindle app (have to double check this but I have a FIRE tablet and I get free books), and free music. You also have access to AMAZON FRESH where, if available in your area (check it) you can get groceries delivered to your house. For me it was included with the Prime membership. Minimum for takeout is $50.
