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Why Amazon Gives Students Have Free Amazon Prime

And how they can afford it.

Jeffrey Yang
Nov 22, 2016
Emory University
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So, as a college student, you're probably thinking that there's no possible way you can live without Amazon Prime. Your textbooks always come in on time thanks to the FREE two-day shipping and there are so many amazing deals that are offered. Not only that, but as a first year user you get SIX months free. Six ENTIRE months? It's like Christmas came early. Or more like Christmas everyday for six months straight, in my opinion.

So how can Amazin' Amazon come up with these promotions that can give you a service that costs most people over $10 a month for $49 a year? Surely, all the two-day shipping shipping rates add up to more than that!

The big picture that you need to see is that Amazon is baiting you with Amazon Prime. Before you had your Prime membership, how many times would you voluntarily go on Amazon to buy things? Maybe once a month? Twice? I know for a fact that I go on Amazon literally every day now, buying things that I most definitely do not NEED. By allowing students to have powerful tools such as 1-click purchases and fast delivery, Amazon is boosting its sales tenfold, and these shipping costs are already calculated into the prices of Prime-eligible items and products. Essentially, Amazon is making a sh-t ton of more money while you're buying a sh-t ton of things you probably don't need whatsoever. This same ideology applies to every other membership-based service that renews monthly and it turns out to be a vicious cycle of buying and wasting money.

Then again, that's the power of Amazon Prime. It empowers us barely adults who have been living off of our parents' rules of what to buy and when to buy it, as we would always have to ask and beg before our parents will buy us something. Granted, I know I'M still buying things with my parents' money, but with this extra freedom I learn a few more things about finances and how the real world operates, not just this isolated bubble where I'm simply leeching off my parents.

It's kind of liberating.

But I'm definitely still wasting money.

If you wanted to know how Amazon is not losing money by offering these free trials and discounted rates on Amazon Prime, this is a brief overview.

Cheers, and go buy some more items you don't need.

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