HardOCP News
[H] News
- Joined
- Dec 31, 1969
- Messages
- 0
Holy cow, a $40 price hike? Then again, considering the sheer amount of stuff I order from Amazon every year, Prime would still be a bargain for me.
CFO Tom Szkutak said growing transportation costs may cause the online retail giant to add between $20 to $40 to the subscription fee. Prime -- which offers free, two-day shipping on certain items and access to Amazon's Prime Instant Video library and Kindle lending library -- currently costs $79 a year. He said the subscription service, has become very popular in the last nine years. Prime shipments have grown from 1 million to 19 million units, according to Szkutak.