Amazon Promo Codes & the Best Ways to Save

1. Bundle five Subscribe & Save items into one delivery

   Up to 15% offLow effortAnyone who rebuys the same basics

   Eligible everyday essentials get a discount when you set them to deliver automatically, and the top rate of up to 15% applies when five or more products arrive in one delivery to one address. Subscriptions ship with free standard shipping, and you can skip a delivery or cancel at any time before it ships, so you are not locked in.^{[3, 4, 5]}

   1. Look for the Subscribe & Save option on the product page and pick a frequency.
   2. Give every subscription the same delivery day so at least five products arrive together.
   3. Read the reminder email Amazon sends before each shipment, and skip anything you don't need yet.

2. Buy big-ticket items during the three main events

   The deepest discounts of the yearSome effortAnyone who can wait a few weeks

   Amazon doesn't match competitors' prices and doesn't give money back when a price falls after you buy, so timing is your only price protection. Product pages carry a Price History link with up to a year of prices, and you can set a target price to be told when an item gets there. Prime Day and Prime Big Deal Days are for Prime members only; Black Friday week is advertised to all customers.^{[10, 18, 19, 20]}

   1. Open the item's Price History before buying to see whether today's price is actually low.
   2. Set a target price on anything you can wait for.
   3. Put non-urgent purchases on a list ahead of June, early October and late November.

3. Shop open-box and used stock through Amazon Resale

   Bigger discounts the lower the gradeLow effortElectronics, appliances, furniture

   Amazon Resale (the program formerly called Warehouse Deals) sells customer returns, open-box and warehouse-damaged items. Each one is inspected and graded Like New, Very Good, Good or Acceptable, and lower grades are priced lower. Orders ship with Prime shipping and come with free returns — except listings marked “Used – Acceptable (Final Sale)”, which can't be returned at all.^[8]

4. Pay less for Prime itself

   Prime from $6.99 a monthSome effortAges 18–24, students, assistance recipients

   Standard Prime is $14.99 a month or $139 a year. Prime for Young Adults costs $7.49 a month or $69 a year after a $0 trial and is open to 18–24-year-olds and higher-education students. Prime Access is $6.99 a month for people in one of 13 government assistance programs — including SNAP, Medicaid, WIC, SSI and SSDI — or who verify their income. Prime Access eligibility has to be re-verified every 12 months.^{[2, 6, 7]}

   1. Students and 18–24s: sign up at amazon.com/joinyoungadult.
   2. Assistance recipients: go to amazon.com/primeaccess and upload the document for your program.
   3. Set a reminder to re-verify Prime Access each year so the discount doesn't lapse.

5. Split one Prime membership with another adult

   One fee, two adultsLow effortTwo adults at the same address

   Amazon Family lets a Prime member share shipping, grocery delivery, Prime Video and Prime-only deals with one other adult in the same household, each keeping their own account. It doesn't work from a free trial, a Young Adult membership or a Prime Shipping-only plan, and it requires the organizer to share a payment method with the other adult.^{[16, 17]}

6. Trade in old devices for an Amazon gift card

   Gift card credit for old techSome effortPhones, games, Kindles, Echo devices

   Amazon Trade-In pays for eligible phones, video games, electronics and Amazon devices with an Amazon gift card. Outside phone purchases you can send up to five items worth up to $1,800 per order, and you have 45 days to ship them. It's open only to addresses in the contiguous United States.^[9]

7. Use the coupons and codes Amazon attaches to products

   Varies by productLow effortAnyone, item by item

   Amazon's discounts are mostly tied to individual products rather than your whole order. It gathers current ones under a Coupons tab in Today's Deals. When a promotion comes with a code, you enter it in the Gift Cards and Promotional Codes box at checkout — and check the final price before placing the order to confirm it applied.^{[15, 22]}

Codes and offers kept by David Jones, who lists only codes the store makes public.

Amazon's coupons and promotions belong to individual products — clipped on the product page or listed under the price. When you have a promotional code, it goes in the Gift Cards and Promotional Codes box at checkout, and it's single-use.

1. Subscription prices can move

   Each Subscribe & Save order is charged at the item's price on the day it's processed, minus your discount — and Amazon can change that price at any time. Check the reminder email before each delivery and skip if the price has crept up.^{[4, 5]}

2. Returning part of a deal shrinks the refund

   If you return an item that helped you qualify for a discount — say, one half of a buy-two offer — Amazon reduces your refund to take the discount back.^[1]

3. Third-party sellers play by their own rules

   Sellers that ship their own stock can charge shipping on orders above the free-shipping minimum, take returns at their own address, and aren't covered by the Pre-order Price Guarantee. Check who ships an item before you count on Amazon's policies.^{[1, 11, 12]}

4. Sharing Prime means sharing a card

   To share Prime through Amazon Family, the organizer's payment method is shared with the other adult, who can see its details and use it to buy things. Only set it up with someone you'd trust with your card.^[16]

5. Final Sale really is final

   Amazon Resale items listed as “Used – Acceptable (Final Sale)” and Amazon Haul items costing $3 or less can't be returned or refunded, even if you change your mind the next day.^{[1, 8]}