Amazon is turning the price screw for its premium memberships in the USA. In Germany, too, customers with a Prime subscription will have to pay extra in the future. We’ll tell you how you can avoid the price increase for a few more months.

In mid-September, membership for Amazon’s premium service will become more expensive. Instead of 69 euros per year, customers will then pay 89.90 euros from September 15 for the same subscription. The fee will also be ten euros more expensive for students. EUR 44.90 per year will then be due instead of the previous EUR 34 per year. Read more about this here .

If that’s too expensive for you, you don’t have to cancel right away. Interested parties who want to take out a Prime subscription for the first time and some existing customers can initially avoid the surcharge using a clever strategy.

So that you don’t have to pay more from autumn, there is a simple trick you can use to avoid the price increase for another year:

Shortly before September 15, e.g. on September 14, as a new customer, take out a Prime subscription and pay the full price for the whole year when you confirm your order, i.e. the usual 69 euros.

Instead of paying 89 euros from mid-September, you can then enjoy all the benefits of premium membership for a year longer at a lower price.

If you don’t like the offer, you can cancel your membership within 30 days of the trial subscription.

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All those who already have a premium subscription to Amazon and pay the fee annually cannot delay the increase in price. Whether you pay more on the key date or only from the end of September or October depends on when your subscription begins. Because according to Amazon, the new price will only be due with the first payment after September 15th.

The situation is different for Prime members, who have previously paid for their membership monthly. They can benefit from the old price for longer by switching from the monthly model to the annual subscription.

You can make the change in your account overview. Proceed as follows in your Amazon profile:

Choose the annual tariff and, like new customers, only pay the higher price next year.

Extrapolated, you will save around 40 euros within the next 12 months if you change the payment cycle from monthly to annually before the price change.

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