topic Re: Amazon Prime renewal in Credit Cards

Amazon Prime renewal

Hex — Wed, 01 May 2019 22:33:54 GMT

My yearly Prime subscription is about to renew. If I use my Amazon store card to pay for it will I receive 5% cash back or should I use another credit card to pay for it.

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

Anonymous — Wed, 01 May 2019 23:54:38 GMT

Can't say for sure, but I know you can't use your gift card balance...unless you do a work around: use your gift card balance (which you bought at 5% off) to buy a "gift of prime" and redeem that prime membership for yourself.

You can probably get an answer from Amazon online customer service pretty quickly regarding if the direct renewal will earn 5% or not. I've never had a long wait.

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

Anonymous — Wed, 01 May 2019 23:57:19 GMT

I don’t see why it wouldn’t get 5% off, it’s a purchase on Amazon and the Chase card does.

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

UncleB — Thu, 02 May 2019 01:20:37 GMT

@Hex wrote:
My yearly Prime subscription is about to renew. If I use my Amazon store card to pay for it will I receive 5% cash back or should I use another credit card to pay for it.

We previously determined that you do earn 5% cash back with the Amazon Visa, and I would think that it would be the same with the Amazon Prime Store card (which is your question here). Hopefully someone with the Prime Store card will come along and be able to tell us definitively.

Discussion on the Amazon Visa and Prime renewal: https://ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Credit-Cards/Take-that-Amazon-Chase/m-p/5557974

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

FICOEmpire — Thu, 02 May 2019 03:36:53 GMT

Yes it definitely does earn the 5%. I've done it the past 3 or 4 years now.

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 14:26:00 GMT

With the new news, starting soon, the BCP will get you 6%

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 14:50:45 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
With the new news, starting soon, the BCP will get you 6%

I somehow doubt that the BCP will do it for the membership vs just the video component.

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 16:18:31 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
With the new news, starting soon, the BCP will get you 6%
I somehow doubt that the BCP will do it for the membership vs just the video component.

AFAIK there isn't just a way to sign up for amazon prime video only, so you think it will be 6% off the charges you pay for each (non-free) video?

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

Anonymous — Thu, 02 May 2019 16:25:28 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
@Anonymous wrote:
With the new news, starting soon, the BCP will get you 6%
I somehow doubt that the BCP will do it for the membership vs just the video component.
AFAIK there isn't just a way to sign up for amazon prime video only, so you think it will be 6% off the charges you pay for each (non-free) video?

Nah you can get Prime Video alone.

“If you choose to be charged on a monthly basis, your membership charge will be $12.99. If you choose to be charged on an annual basis, you will be charged $119. Prime Video membership is $8.99 a month.”

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200966690

I seem to remember a card that specifically says that only Prime Video counts and not the full Prime membership but I can’t remember which card it was to look it up.

Re: Amazon Prime renewal

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 04:11:57 GMT

This is an old thread, but I can confirm that I just renewed my Amazon Prime membership this month with my BCP and only received 1% cash back. Lesson learned.