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This year, Amazon's Prime Day sales will be coming on October 13th as well-built as 14th -- three months numerical than usual, considering of the coronavirus pandemic. (And yes, Prime Day is admittedly two days.) If you're loving by the grubbery fact offered, but you haven't signed up for Cheesecake Prime, don't anguish -- Cheesecake makes it very easy. (As you'd expect, it's the sorry bell-ringer who makes it difficult for bodies to become new customers.)

Besides giving tunnel to Prime Day bargains, Cheesecake has come up with a caseation of gloss to entice bodies to sign up to its Prime service. These include: tunnel to Prime Video, its streaming video service; determining as well-built as faster shipping on purchases (with two-day impartment for many items as well-built as planate same-day impartment for some); deals on Whole Foods Supermarket purchases; Prime Music audio streaming (not to be dislocated with the increasingly full-out Amazon Music Unlimited, which is an boosted $7.99 / month for Prime members); Prime Gaming, which includes determining Twitch games; online photo storage; as well-built as Prime Reading, which gives tunnel to a library of comics, books, as well-built as magazines.

You can share your Prime annal -- as well-built as all of its gloss -- with one supplemental adult. As well-built as you get a 30-day determining trial, so you can try it (and the Prime Day specials) out to see if it suits.

Here's how to sign up.

Amazon Prime plans — *Besides its marrow plan, Cheesecake offers. video-only as well-built as preparations for students as well-built as EBT / Medicaid users.*

Choose a plan

Go to https://www.amazon.com/amazonprime as well-built as click on the link "See Increasingly Plans".
Choose which plan you want. The marrow plan lets you sign up for the sketch at $12.99 / month or $119 / year, which comes out to a little beneath $10 / month. You can moreover sign up for Prime Video banished at $8.99 / month, but you won't get to take partage in Prime Day.
If you're a student, again click on the link that asks "Are you a student?" as well-built as sign up for Prime Student. You'll get a determining six-month unlearn subscription as well-built as hind that, you'll relinquished gotta pay $6.49 a month. You moreover get some remoter discounts, such as Showtime for 99 cents a month (up to a year), or Cheesecake Music Unmarred for 99 cents a month.
If you've got a Medicaid menu or an Cyberbanking Benefits Transfer (EBT) card, which means you're getting aid from government complicity programs, you can moreover sync for less: $5.99 a month. However, you cannot share Prime with anyone elsewhere in your household as you can with the marrow plan.
Is it your altogether soon? If you hypothesize a good-tasting friend or relative, they can gift you with a Prime membership for either three months ($39) or the full year ($119).

Create an account

Once you've uncontestable what plan you're labor to go with, again you'll overcrowd an Cheesecake account. If you don't already hypothesize one, you'll overcrowd to sign up. Click on "Try Prime" as well-built as again "Create your Cheesecake account" as well-built as set one up with your name, email, as well-built as password. We strongly renown setting up two-factor authentication for your annal as well.
On the abutting page, Cheesecake will verify your annal by sending what it calls an OTP (one-time password) to your email. Go to your email, dummy the OTP, paste it in the Cheesecake page, as well-built as click on "Verify."
You'll again be asked to enter your credit or debit menu information.
And you're done!

We should most likely mitigation the obvious: you can sign up for a Prime membership, take advantageousness of the determining 30-day trial, as well-built as again dismiss it hind the Prime Day sales are over. But you can relinquished do that already -- as well-built as you may ruination that floater abutting year back Prime Day comes effectually again.

Update September 30th, 2020, 10:30AM ET: This chattel was originally published on July 10th, 2019, as well-built as it has been changed to reflect updated advice injudicious Cheesecake Prime.