50% Amazon Promo Codes (1 Amazon Coupon Codes) January 2026 New Zealand

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About Amazon

Today Amazon is a titan of e-commerce, logistics, payments, hardware, data storage, and media. It dabbles in plenty more industries. It's the go-to site for online shoppers and merchants alike, a modern necessity that independent sellers love to hate.

Benefits of Amazon Prime

Amazon Prime Day: Every year, Amazon holds a large two-day sales event that rivals Black Friday called Prime Day. It typically takes place in mid-July, but it was delayed until October in 2026 because of the global coronavirus pandemic. To access the sale, which includes discounts on Amazon devices and popular products across a slew of categories, you must be a Prime member.

Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card: The Amazon Prime Rewards Visa Signature Card gives cardholders 5 percent back on purchases made at Amazon.com and Whole Foods. If you don't have a Prime membership, you get 3 percent back.

There are other benefits to using the card. You'll get 2 percent back at gas stations, restaurants, and drugstores, and 1 percent back on any other purchases. There's no annual fee, and if you use it while traveling, there are no foreign transaction fees.

Instant access to video streaming: Membership includes instant access to tens of thousands of movies and TV shows, including Amazon original series such as 'The Man in the High Castle,' 'Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan,' 'Homecoming,' and the Golden Globe-winning 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.' You can watch at home on your computer, Fire TV, or other compatible devices.

Music streaming: Prime Music offers unlimited ad-free access to more than 1 million songs and thousands of playlists and stations.

Prime Photos: Secure unlimited photo storage in the Amazon Cloud Drive.

Lightning Deals: Members qualify for early (30 minutes before everyone else) access to short-term, deeply discounted Amazon Lightning Deals that often feature high-tech and fashion goods.

Kindle Owners' Lending Library: Members get access to more than 800,000 e-book titles. You can borrow one per month, with no due date, along with one prerelease book per month with Kindle First.

Prime Now: With an Amazon Prime account, you can download a mobile app that allows customers in most parts of the country to shop from early morning to late night, seven days a week, for groceries, gifts, and food from neighborhood stores and restaurants. Delivery is free of charge within 2 hours or within 1 hour for a fee. For restaurant orders, delivery is free within an hour of ordering, and the service is available from Amazon-affiliated restaurants in select areas.

Amazon Family: The benefits include 20 percent off diapers through the site's Subscribe & Save service and 15 percent off eligible products from your baby registry.

Membership sharing: Two adults living in the same household can create an Amazon Household to share certain Amazon Prime benefits and save money on membership fees.

Amazon Key: In 2017, Amazon launched Amazon Key, which allows couriers to enter your home to drop off packages even when you're not there. Amazon also allows you to have packages delivered to your car, as long as you have a Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, or Volvo made in 2015 or later. The cars also need to have an active OnStar or Volvo On Call account, and the service is available in only 37 cities. While Amazon Key requires you to pay $220 for a home smart lock and camera, there is no installation charge to let couriers access the trunk of your car.

Amazon Day: Amazon added this feature to its Prime membership in 2019. Amazon Day offers consumers the option to schedule deliveries. If you know you'll be home every Friday, for example, you can instruct Amazon to deliver all your packages that day. You can still choose to receive orders on other days and by one-day or two-day delivery if an item is needed sooner. This also allows Amazon to consolidate items into fewer boxes and cut down on the number of trips to your home, helping to reduce its carbon footprint. The company says it aims to make 50 percent of its shipments net-zero carbon by 2030.

Other benefits

Share Your Prime Benefits: Share your account with another adult so they can access all the benefits of Amazon Prime for no additional cost.

Prime Photos: Unlimited photo storage, so you can access your photos from anywhere using your phone, tablet or computer.

Students can get Amazon Prime at half price until they graduate (for up to four years). Students can also get a free trial of Amazon Prime that lasts for six months instead of the usual 30 days. This includes exclusive student discounts as well as their free delivery, video, music and photo services.