What is Amazon Prime Day and How Can EVERYONE Participate?

Christmas in July is happening soon. In fact, it’s like Black Friday in July on Amazon with Amazon Prime Day 2018.

We are going to dish up all of the details, along with a tip on how to get some FREE Amazon Credit to spend! 

What is Amazon Prime Day and how can everyone participate? 

This is what we want to share with you because Amazon is promising that this is going to be BIGGER than Black Friday! In fact, this is the fourth year for Amazon Prime Day. So, let’s get down to business. What is Amazon Prime day and how can everyone participate?

Each year is filled with a plethora of rock-bottom deals to fill in your needs… and some tempting wants.

Amazon touts it as Better than Black Friday in July, and that really has proven to be the case each year.

But it’s Amazon Prime Day is not just a fun way to have a “Christmas-like” event in July, but it’s actually the anniversary of when Jeff Bezos opened Amazon’s doors back in 1994.  So it’s really an anniversary celebration, but to be able to participate, let’s answer these two questions: What is Amazon Prime day and how can everyone participate?

First, what is Amazon Prime Day? 

So to celebrate their 24 years of absolute retail victory, they are having a bigger than black friday sale.

Starting 3 pm EST on July 16th, Amazon Prime Customers will be a privileged group to obtain new deals every few minutes, and every product category is eligible at some point throughout the day. They will be offering both Deals of the Day (prices lasting all day) and lightning deals (short, quick, few minute sales).  Also, according to the press release, all Prime Members globally will have an opportunity to grab a deal or two.  They are also giving chances to win gift cards by utilizing the several prime music features.

Second, how can everyone participate? 

You may have realized the obvious restriction to Amazon Prime Day… you must be a Prime Member.  Well, guess what?!? We’ve got you covered because you can get a free Prime Membership for 30 or more days depending on which you qualify for! You will want to get signed up for one of these free options today so that you are ready for the big day!

The first option is the free 30-day Prime Membership trial for anyone and any household. Receive all of the benefits of a regular prime membership for 30 days and enjoy the Prime Day tomorrow! Read more about the free 30-day trial and sign-up on the Amazon site HERE.

The second option is called the Amazon Mom’s program. We’ve been a part of this for several years now and this can be separate from the Amazon Prime with all of the prime benefits. Basically, it’s an upgraded Prime Membership to give you up to 20% off diapers and wipes and exclusive baby product and supply coupons. Also a 15% off baby registry discount. Please note: if you are a Prime Member already, you can also qualify to register for this for the diaper and baby products savings too. So many benefits if you are a mom, dad, grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, care giver, etc. then this might be the free trial you want!  You can sign-up for this one and receive a free 30-day trial.

The third option is a REALLY good one! Free 6-month Prime Membership for students! If you are a student (you will need a .edu email address) then you can get a free 6-month prime membership and then if you decide to continue, it’s 50% off the full year after that! SWEET! Also, we recommend that you share with your fellow students to receive a $10 credit too – they are letting the poor, starving college students earn money on this one. 😉 Read more details, sign-up for the free membership and share away too! 

Now that we have discussed the two questions: What is Amazon Prime day and how can everyone participate, let’s see some of the deals!

Free $10 Credit and Lots of $5 spending freebies, Plus Deals Galore

Now let’s talk about the many ways to save even more!

If you are shopping on Amazon on Prime Day, you will want to be sure that you are getting cash back. There are three main ways that we do this and you can do this for three different transactions to get your cash back. In fact, we laid it all out in this article here on “Make $25 Shopping Online.” $25+ cash back, along with the better than Black Friday deals will make for a deal to go down in history.

But it doesn’t stop there! That $25 is before additional Amazon savings.

First, if you shop at Whole Foods between now and July 17th and spend at least $10, you can get a FREE $10 Amazon gift card. You will need to show your Amazon Prime app to claim your gift card, but it’s a perfect way to have a free $10 extra to spend!  Read below and you will find that you can get even more discounts by shopping at Whole Foods.

Additionally, Amazon is doing a new sales promotion this year – random additional $5 discounts to already amazing deals. You will need to download the Amazon App and use the camera feature and deals will popup during Prime Day that will give you another $5 off the lowest Prime Day price for that item.

Finally, here are some other promotions where you can either try a service for nearly nothing, or get some Amazon spending credit. Click on the promotions and you can take advantage of one or all of them and reap all of the benefits.

These are deals available NOW through the finish of Amazon Prime Day:

 

 

We have answered your two questions What is Amazon Prime day and how can everyone participate. Now what?

Well now that you have your Prime Membership, utilize the sales starting July 16th to nab some awesome deals on items you have had on your list to get. If there is something, big or small, that you have planned to purchase in the near future, you will want to get your list out and check the sales tomorrow and the lightning deals to see if you can get it for an incredible price. 

Are you excited about this?  We are sure Amazon won’t disappoint because they rarely do! 😉