Remember you need to be a Prime member to get the best Amazon deals next week

Remember you need to be a Prime member to get the best Amazon deals next week
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Amazon Prime Day is only a few days away and, in what's going to be a crazy few months before the year is out, you might as well look to be best placed before the Amazon Prime Day deals start  It’s only topped by Black Friday in terms of prices being slashed and opportunities to be jumped on, so it pays to stick around and be prepared for any hot sales that might pop up.

However, you can't take advantage of any of the deals if you’re not an Amazon Prime member. This is the membership that gives you next day delivery and access to the retail behemoth’s TV service and so on - being a regular Amazon member and shopper is not enough to take advantage of this event.

You can pay for the membership but if you're eligible, you can take advantage of a month's free trial which will be ideal for prime day and some of November's early Black Friday deals to get the fast shipping and TV service - you can then simply cancel it after and be done with it. Use these links below to get to the free trial signup pages.

There are plenty deals on offer and we've got some hubs that you may want to bookmark to keep abreast of the best.

Amazon Prime Day gaming deals | Amazon Prime Day laptop deals | Amazon Prime Day headset deals | Amazon Prime Day TV deals | Amazon Prime Day Nintendo Switch deals

Join Amazon Prime | US

Join Amazon Prime | US
This is the link to upgrade your Amazon membership to Prime.

Join Amazon Prime | UK

Join Amazon Prime | UK
And to set your UK Amazon membership to prime, click here.

If you’re new to Amazon and all its worldly delights you can start the whole signing up process here for US shoppers and here for UK shoppers.

We really recommend this as it can be a great way to get some high-price ticket items you’ve been saving up for or take advantage of some early Christmas shopping like I’ll be (don’t @ me), without having to go through the winter sales madness.

Elsewhere, it's well worthwhile keeping up to date with the PS5 pre-orders situation and what's happening with Xbox Series X pre-orders too. Tis the season of hardware launches!

Rob Dwiar

Rob is the Deputy Editor of sister site, TechRadar Gaming, and has been in the games and tech industry for years. Prior to a recent stint as Gaming Editor at WePC, Rob was the Commissioning Editor for Hardware at 12DOVE, and was on the hardware team for more than four years, since its inception in late 2018. He is also a writer on games and has had work published over the last six years or so at the likes of Eurogamer, RPS, PCGN, and more. He is also a qualified landscape and garden designer, so does that in his spare time, while he is also an expert on the virtual landscapes and environments of games and loves to write about them too, including in an upcoming book on the topic!

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