Free year of Amazon Prime for students

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#1  Edited By tomance
http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info  
Just use your student email and you get it.  This is just another reason why Amazon is amazing.    
 
Amazon Prime is basically an upgraded shipping service.  Anything that says eligible for Amazon Prime shipping will have free 2 day shipping.  If you would like you can upgrade to one day for 3.99.   
 
The great thing is there's no limit on price.  If the thing is 5 bucks you can get 2 day shipping.  Prime is pretty much the only way I buy games now.  On most preorders you can get release date shipping.  Amazon does have the super saver shipping but that has to be 25 bucks or more.  This is especially good for books and movies.  Plus, who doesn't like to get their stuff faster?
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#2  Edited By Dany

Holy shit that is fantastic! Can't wait to start using this

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#3  Edited By Vonocourt

Awesome, thanks a bunch for the link.

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#4  Edited By Xeiphyer

ohhh, thats pretty awesome! But will it work for Canada....
 
EDIT: I don't see anything on the Canadian site, but I don't know where it would be... Anyone know?

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#5  Edited By sopranosfan

awesome deal, just signed up.  Thanks for the tip.
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#6  Edited By Lunar_Aura

Thanks for the heads up, Peacemaker!
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#7  Edited By falconer

<3 OP

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#8  Edited By s7evn

cool, now what do I want to buy?

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#9  Edited By CL60
@Xeiphyer said:

" ohhh, thats pretty awesome! But will it work for Canada....  EDIT: I don't see anything on the Canadian site, but I don't know where it would be... Anyone know? "

I am disappointed if it's not in Canada :(
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#10  Edited By crusader8463
@CL60 said:

" @Xeiphyer said:

" ohhh, thats pretty awesome! But will it work for Canada....  EDIT: I don't see anything on the Canadian site, but I don't know where it would be... Anyone know? "

I am disappointed it it's not in Canada :( "
There is a simple way to know the answer to that question no matter the situation. Simply answer these questions:
  1. Is it an incredibly awesome deal?
  2. Is it an incredibly fun looking contest?
  3. Is it an awesome service that you have been dieing to use?
 
If you answered yes to any of those, then eleven times out of ten it's only open to the yanks.
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#11  Edited By tearhead

Thanks for the info! I'll be sure to milk this for all it's worth.

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#12  Edited By Sabata

Cool, but...what exactly IS Amazon Prime?

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#13  Edited By DevWil

this is awesome. 
 
thanks for the heads-up.  ordered a few things earlier today, hope i can still upgrade my shipping. 
 
edit: shipping upgraded.  damn you amazon, now i have to spend more money than i can afford to in the next 12 months to take advantage of this.

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#14  Edited By Barrock
@Sabata said:
" Cool, but...what exactly IS Amazon Prime? "
Free 2 day shipping and I guess with the student program you get exclusive deals.
 
Also you can upgrade to 1 day shipping for like $3.99 an item.
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#15  Edited By Xeiphyer
@crusader8463 said:
" @CL60 said:

" @Xeiphyer said:

" ohhh, thats pretty awesome! But will it work for Canada....  EDIT: I don't see anything on the Canadian site, but I don't know where it would be... Anyone know? "

I am disappointed it it's not in Canada :( "
There is a simple way to know the answer to that question no matter the situation. Simply answer these questions:
  1. Is it an incredibly awesome deal?
  2. Is it an incredibly fun looking contest?
  3. Is it an awesome service that you have been dieing to use?
 If you answered yes to any of those, then eleven times out of ten it's only open to the yanks. "
God yeah, its so true =/
 
I've never understood why they keep all those things closed to Canada... Our lives are very integrated already, and its not like a contest or something is going to make someone move to the USA. =/
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#16  Edited By Animasta

damnit now I forgot my student email password D:

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#17  Edited By Ryax

im pretty sure i have amazon prime for free

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#18  Edited By tomance
@Sabata said:
" Cool, but...what exactly IS Amazon Prime? "
I probably should've put that in the OP so I just updated it.  
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#19  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

That's pretty cool, thanks for passing the info along.

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#20  Edited By bretthancock

Good looking out!  Awesome deal.

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#21  Edited By citizenkane

Awesome.  I usually always buy my textbooks off of Amazon.  :)

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#22  Edited By Gabriel

Nice, this is pretty awesome, now I can get rid of some texbooks I don't need.

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THANK YOU SIR.  I order so much stuff from Amazon, so this is amazing for me.

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#24  Edited By goodwood

Thank you sir

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#25  Edited By spiceninja
@Xeiphyer:  It has to do with US laws about contests and the lottery and all that. It's not like they withhold these contests out of spite.
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#26  Edited By Nasar7

OP you are a gentleman and a scholar.

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#27  Edited By mosdl

Been using Prime for over a year and I usually find that if I use the free 2 day shipping, often enough it arrives in 1 day if I order on time.

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#28  Edited By MikkaQ

Man... Hulu, Netflix streaming, private liquor stores, and now this? I really need to move to the states. Darn canada has nothing but.. polite people and horribly restrictive media companies. 

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#29  Edited By tomance
@mosdl said:
" Been using Prime for over a year and I usually find that if I use the free 2 day shipping, often enough it arrives in 1 day if I order on time. "
Same here.  I guess their shipping center for games or something is in delaware.  I end up getting them the next day if I order it early enough.  
 
Glad you guys are getting use out of this.   
 
I had to order wipers for my car.  They were priced at 18 and 20 bucks in stores.  Amazon had them for 11 each.   the savings.  
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#30  Edited By Rirobuge

Awesome deal, thank you for informing.

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#31  Edited By iam3green

pretty stupid, i don't have a .edu email. i can't use it.

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#32  Edited By Lies
@iam3green said:
" pretty stupid, i don't have a .edu email. i can't use it. "
If you go to any sort of university you almost certainly have a .edu e-mail, it may just be unknown to you. Pretty much all of them provide one. Not sure about community colleges and their ilk, but I know at least some do.
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#33  Edited By omghisam

I've read it doesn't work for @something.school.edu addresses. I think they want to limit the number of alumni who sneak in on the deal. But it works for me since my alma mater let me keep my old email address, plus I am staff at another university. 

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#34  Edited By iam3green
@Lies said:
" @iam3green said:
" pretty stupid, i don't have a .edu email. i can't use it. "
If you go to any sort of university you almost certainly have a .edu e-mail, it may just be unknown to you. Pretty much all of them provide one. Not sure about community colleges and their ilk, but I know at least some do. "
i go to community college so maybe that is why.
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#35  Edited By apathylad

Great! Now I need stuff to buy. :P