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Campfire Kahuna
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I've bought a lot of stuff from Amazon and still do but shop around 1st. Their prices aren't the best on the web anymore by a long shot. They got people used to their low prices and then started jacking them up. They have some good deals but don't count on it without shopping around 1st.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Love it. Made up for my first year cost by getting free nexr day shipping on an anvil.
If something on the internet makes you angry the odds are you're being manipulated
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Campfire Tracker
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This house loves Prime. We buy enough from them that the shipping pays for the subscription so the video is essentially free.
Also we cut off the satellite dish a while back and are doing just fine with free local stations plus Netflix @ $8/month and Prime at $100/year.
'Four legs good, two legs baaaad." ---------------------------------------------- "Jimmy, some of it's magic, Some of it's tragic, But I had a good life all the way." (Jimmy Buffett)
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Prime has all the advantages that were mentioned above. Only occasionally do I buy somewhere else due to a better price with all things considered....tax and shipping.
Easily pays for itself just in shipping savings alone.
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"By the time you realize your father was a smart man, you have a teenager telling you just how stupid you are."
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Campfire 'Bwana
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I'm a huge fan. Anymore, there's not much they don't sell.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Campfire Outfitter
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I use Prime because it's easier and cheaper than driving into town. Yup, same here.
Mercy ceases to be a virtue when it enables further injustice. -Brent Weeks
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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I use Prime because it's easier and cheaper than driving into town. ^^^This^^^
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
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Prime is great. Ive bought everything from gas priming bulbs to snow blowers! A king size bed and mattress, all shipped for free!
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I signed up for prime in Sept 2011 with free trial. The wife thought it was too expensive.... took her two days to change her mind..... years later she is still using my pass word to use prime to watch movies.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Campfire Ranger
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No Prime but I have had several Sunday deliveries from them.
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So how much is the annual fee for having Prime?
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Campfire 'Bwana
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God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Don't forget the photo backup that's included with Prime. Unlimited storage of digital photos on their system. I back up all my pics there.
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Don't forget the photo backup that's included with Prime. Unlimited storage of digital photos on their system. I back up all my pics there.
I have it and didn't know that Thanks!
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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the $99 isn't bad annually......I buy alot of Amazon...
nearly an hour away from any big stores is my reason...
free ship....no tax...IF you have no Amazon in your State..
free music & movie streaming for the Prime paying member...
along with sharing with 4 other family members or friends...
all they get is the 2 day ship free
T R U M P W O N !
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Don't forget the photo backup that's included with Prime. Unlimited storage of digital photos on their system. I back up all my pics there. That's a very nice option... but spend $75 or so and get an external hard drive and keep a copy of your pics there also. Seen too many online photo places change their policies or make a screw up and "Poof!", there goes somebody's memories.
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My sister got free Amazon Prime when she bought something years ago, still has it, and they ship to her place in Chile!
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You can also set up multiple ship-to addresses and cards for Prime. We split a membership every year for the past 3 with my in-laws. Saves a ton on shipping and fuel costs driving around looking for an item that you know exactly what you want.
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I laugh. I got Prime years ago to read the free books. I read a lot. Kindle type reading. The bonus is the few Items they sell that you can order with the free shipping . I think they now have 4 big warehouses in the DFW area. Plus the third party deals. Ordered an out dated riding lawn mower gas tank last summer. Needed one and received one from some small lawnmower shop in Alabama. He got rid of some old stock, I got a new old stock gas tank. This kind of stuff is where the help is.
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Last fall I ordered 3 sets of winter tires from Amazon. Each set was shipped Second-Day Air for free....to Alaska. Shipping for the same tires by Tire Rack would have been $220 per set!
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