{"id":8506,"date":"2013-04-08T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T13:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2013-04-08T06:52:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-08T10:52:20","slug":"could-amazon-prime-become-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/could-amazon-prime-become-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Amazon Prime Become Free?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/040713_1654_CouldAmazon1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For $79 Amazon offers a year of free two day shipping. And soon it might cost next to nothing writes Marcus Wohlsen:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those who use Amazon Prime spend twice as much, on average, than non-Amazon prime customers.<\/li>\n<li>After adding all the extra costs of courting Prime subscribers, the average Prime member accounts for $78 more in profit than regular customers.<\/li>\n<li>Prime customers are 4% of Amazon&#8217;s total subscriber base. And this 4% is responsible for more than one third of Amazon&#8217;s profits.<\/li>\n<li>Prime subscribers likely use the service more because they&#8217;ve already invested in it, and can get their goods faster and cheaper than regular customers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the future of Amazon Prime, its smart play in enticing college students, and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/03\/amazon-prime-could-soon-cost-next-to-nothing\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/03\/amazon-prime-could-soon-cost-next-to-nothing\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmarksdoor.com\/mainblog\/2013\/04\/why-amazon-prime-could-soon-cost-you-next-to-nothing.html\">Newmark&#8217;s Door<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For $79 Amazon offers a year of free two day shipping. And soon it might cost next to nothing writes Marcus Wohlsen: Those who use Amazon Prime spend twice as much, on average, than non-Amazon prime customers. After adding all the extra costs of courting Prime subscribers, the average Prime member accounts for $78 more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/040713_1654_CouldAmazon1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8508,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions\/8508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}