Amazon Is Raising Annual Prime Membership Price to $119

Starting May 11, customers will pay twenty bucks extra per year, the same amount Amazon previously increased its original $79 United States dollars price.

He has also claimed it is ripping off the US Postal Service which, he alleges, loses an average $1.50 for each package it delivers for Amazon. Shares are up seven percent in after-hours trading.

“This is a better reflection of the cost value of the program”, he said. It acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion past year to help it send groceries to shoppers’ doorsteps.

Amazon’s stock jumped more than 6 percent to almost $1,613 a share.

Profit more than doubled with net income of $1.6bn, or $3.27 a share, up from $724m, or $1.48 a share, for the same quarter a year ago. Analysts were expecting $1.27 a share.

As services expanded, so too are the costs – prompting the price hike. Analysts with Wedbush Securities estimate that Amazon will spend $6 billion on video content in 2018. Prime’s selection in India now includes more than 40 million local products from third-party sellers, the lettersaid.

During its Q1 2018 earnings call, Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky told reporters that Amazon is increasing the price of its annual subscription from $99 per year to $119 per year.

Not long ago, Amazon announced that it had over 100 million Prime subscribers, and is no surprise seeing as Amazon is the worlds dominant online retail destination.

The enormous ballroom will also be located in the Wood house, and at 1,500 square feet, with its own bar and balconied promenade, it will undoubtedly host many extravagant parties for years to come. Advertising and “Other” sales, including from co-branded credit cards, grew 139 percent to $2.03 billion.

Online sales are growing faster than overall retail, and Amazon now commands roughly 43 cents of every dollar spent online, according to estimates by research firm eMarketer.

Amazon recently increased the price of its monthly Prime membership in January from $10.99 to $12.99 per month.