Amazon Prime subscription offers: How to get a Prime membership for free or at a 50% discount

An Amazon Prime subscription is a must for anyone who is looking to benefit from the upcoming Amazon Prime Day deals and offers. This year’s Amazon Prime Day Sale will kick at midnight on July 26th and will be live for two days till 11.59 pm. The e-commerce website has listed a whole host of offers and discount on the website across categories like mobiles, appliances, electronics, and fashion among others.

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Amazon Prime Membership is available in 1-month, 3-month and 12-month plans priced at Rs 179, Rs 459 and Rs 1499, respectively. However, the e-commerce giant was running a Prime Youth Offer, which lets individuals between 18 to 24 years of age get a 50 percent cashback on the price. In addition, there are also ways to get a Prime membership effectively free if you subscribe to select plans from various telcoms. If you’re looking for the best deals on an Amazon Prime subscription, we’ve got you covered.

Amazon Prime Limited Period Offer: Lock in the old price and get offers worth an equivalent amount

Amazon India will soon hike its Prime membership prices to Rs 179, Rs 459, and Rs 1,499 for 1-month, 3-month, and 12-month, respectively. However, the e-commerce platform is allowing users to lock in their Prime membership at old prices of Rs 129, Rs 329, and Rs 999, for a limited period. Those who avail of the limited period old price lock-in offer will be able to enjoy benefits worth the same amount.

Users who join 1-month Prime membership for Rs 179 will get flat Rs 50 back on orders above Rs 150 on Swiggy and 10 percent back up to Rs 79 on PharmEasy. Similarly, those who opt for 3-month Prime membership for Rs 329 will get Rs 50 back on Swiggy, 10 percent back up to Rs 179 on PharmEasy, and 30 percent back up to Rs 100 on Uber. Lastly, users option for Rs 999 plan will get Rs 50 back on Swiggy twice, 10 percent back up to Rs 399 on PharmEasy, 30 percent back up to Rs 100 on Uber, 20 percent back up to Rs 100 on Domino’s, and flat Rs 300 back on bookings above Rs 2,000 on MakeMyTrip.

To avail these offers, follow the steps below:

1. Head to Amazon Prime page and select the plan you wish to purchase
2. Make payment for the plan
3. Amazon Pay offers worth the plan will be unlocked and sent to your registered email
4. Click on the link in the email to head to Amazon and collect the offers
5.   You can also find the offers in the Your Rewards section of the Amazon app

Amazon Prime Youth offer: How to get 50 percent cashback on Amazon Prime membership

Amazon Prime used to run an Amazon Prime Youth Offer for a limited duration, where anyone between the age of 18 years and 24 years will be provided cashback in the form of a promotional 50% Amazon Pay cashback worth up to ₹ 750 on the purchase of 1-Month, 3-month and 12-month Amazon Prime memberships. In order to claim the offer the following steps were followed.

1. Visit the Amazon Prime Youth Offer page (will only open on Amazon Android or iOS app)
2. Pick a plan of your choice
3. Make payment through credit/debit cards, netbanking, or any other digital payment options
4. Verify your age by submitting a selfie and ID proof
5. 50 percent cashback will be instantly added to your Amazon Pay balance upon successful age verification

However, the offer is no longer valid as the time window to verify age and avail the Youth Offer on Prime has ended.

Amazon Prime Axis Bank Edge offer: how to get free Amazon Prime for a year

Axis Bank offers a loyalty program called Edge rewards to its customers. As part of this program, every Axis Bank customer ears reward points on transactions using Axis Bank saving account, current account, credit card, debit card, and more. These reward points can then be exchanged for various benefits. One of the benefits listed on the official website of the Axis Bank Edge Rewards is the free Amazon Prime membership for a year. Here’s how you can claim it.

• First of all, you will need 7,495 reward points to claim the offer
• Once you have the required points, head to the offer page 
• Click on Add to My Cart and proceed to claim the offer
• Once you claim the offer, you’ll get a GyFTR Instant Gift Code
• Head to the Amazon Prime promo page
• Enter the coupon code and click on Apply Coupon
• You’ll now be subscribed to Amazon Prime for a year

The offer can only be claimed by those who are currently not subscribed to Amazon Prime. Those who are existing Prime users will have to wait until their current membership expires, to be able to redeem this code that too is subject to expiry of the code.

Amazon Prime Echo offer: how to get a 3-month Prime subscription with the purchase of any Echo or Fire TV

Amazon India earlier offered a free 3-month Amazon Prime subscription on purchase of any Echo or Fire TV device. This offer was valid from October 1st to November 2nd or until the stock last, whichever is earlier. The offer will only be available to those who are not Prime members on the date of purchase. Here’s how the offer was claimed.

• Head to the Amazon Echo offer page
• Select one of the Amazon Echo or Fire TV device that you wish to purchase
• On the product page, click on the Join Prime Today box in the additional items section above the buy button
• Click on Add to cart
• You’ll have to pay Rs 329 along with the price of the device to complete the order
• Amazon will credit Rs 329 cashback in the Amazon Pay account after the order has been dispatched

Amazon Prime Echo offer at present does not provide any Prime subscription benefits. It only offers cashback rewards.

Amazon Prime free subscription offers

Top telecom operators in India – Jio, Airtel, and Vi have several plans with a bundled Amazon Prime subscription. Let’s take a look at all telecom plans offering a free Amazon Prime membership to users.

Amazon Prime Airtel bundle plans

Airtel offers a free Amazon Prime Membership many of its prepaid recharge plans and all postpaid plans above Rs 499. The prepaid recharge plan offers 2GB of data per day, unlimited calls, 100 SMSes per day, and OTT benefits. Postpaid plans offer up to unlimited data, voice calls, SMS, ISD calls, add-ons, and more. Below are the details of all Airtel plans offering free Amazon Prime membership.

Amazon Prime Jio bundle plans

Jio doesn’t have any prepaid plans with bundled Amazon Prime membership. However, all of its Jio Postpaid Plus plans offer Amazon Prime membership along with Netflix subscriptions. Below are all Jio Postpaid Plus plans and their benefits.

Amazon Prime Vodafone Idea (Vi) bundle plans

Vodafone Idea (Vi) also offers free Amazon Prime membership with its postpaid plans only. These plans start from Rs 499 and go up to Rs 1,099 for the Red X plan. Users get unlimited data, unlimited voice calls, 100 SMSes, ZEE5 Premium, and other benefits apart from the bundled Amazon Prime annual membership.