Amazon promotional codes

UPDATE: Don’t forget about taking advantage of the Amazon Black Friday deals at the special Amazon.com Black Friday deals page – rumours are that you’ll be able to pick up an Xbox 360 for just $60!

Here on Gamesweasel TV we’re always recommending www.amazon.com as the cheapest and safest way to buy the video games we review. We’ve recently had a few comments from viewers wondering if we have an Amazon promotional code to help get money off at checkout.

The online retail giant seldom releases Amazon coupon codes for distribution so you won’t find any on the coupon code sites or widespread on the web. However, chances are that you qualify for free shipping on Amazon and can also save if you’ve got a student in the family so we’ve put together this guide to help our viewers save money.

Alternatives to an Amazon coupon code for free shipping

For free shipping Amazon has a number of methods of shopping where you’ll automatically qualify for free delivery – at present there is no specific Amazon coupon code for free shipping available.

Use free super saver delivery instead – no Amazon coupon code needed! To qualify for free super saver delivery you’ll need to spend more than $25 on items marked with “eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping” next to the price. If you’ve got less than $25 worth of goods in your basket then use our Amazon deal finder below to top up your basket with video games for under $10. Don’t waste $4.98 on shipping for a $20 video game when you can add a bargain $5 game from the Amazon Deal Finder instead to qualify for free shipping. You won’t be paying delivery charges and you’ll be getting that extra game for free.

Group the items in your basket to save money on delivery, you may have to wait a few more days for your order to arrive but you’ll slash delivery costs in half. However, we don’t suggest this option if you are ordering time-sensitive birthday and Christmas presents as it only takes a single game which is out of stock to potentially hold up your entire order for days. If you plan on doing your Christmas shopping and need all items delivered as cheaply and quickly as possible then we recommend Amazon Prime.

Amazon Prime 1 month free trial

The Amazon Prime membership offers free unlimited one day delivery on millions of items. If you are a regular shopper at Amazon.com and order more than 10 video games per year then it’ll be cheaper to pay the $79 annual fee. Add the usual DVD’s, books, birthday and Christmas presents and the Amazon Prime annual membership has just paid for itself – and you can share your account with up to 4 other people at your address.

Amazon Prime offers a free one month trial which you can use to get unlimited free two day shipping with no minimum order. To benefit from free shipping Amazon Prime trials are best started on the first week of June 2011 as you’ll be approaching Christmas time. Using our Amazon Deal Finder you’ll be able to do your holiday shopping and discover some last minute video game bargains ready for the festive season. Your free trail will still be valid when you want to do more Amazon discount shopping in the January sales 2011 with plenty of bargains to be had.

Amazon Prime 1 year free promotion

You can also get all the benefits of Amazon Prime for free if you are a student enrolled in a college or university in the US. To qualify for the Amazon Student scheme you’ll need to have a working email address ending in .edu for validation purposes, then click the following button to apply:

After signing in you’ll have a whole years worth of free two day shipping at Amazon.com along with access to cheap Amazon laptops for PC gaming, student discount software, Amazon textbooks used by other students – along with all those lovely video games for ‘study purposes’.

Amazon deal finder

We’ve put together this handy Amazon deal finder which brings makes it easy to discover some new and used bestselling video games within a specific price range for June 2011 – a great alternative to those elusive Amazon video game coupons. This means you can fill up your shopping basket with some cheaper video games to automatically qualify for free supersaver delivery. These lists make excellent videogame gift ideas for Christmas when you’ve only got a certain amount of money to spend per person. If you don’t know much about video games then check out the reviews section on our site to find out what we thought of each title to make sure it’s suitable first.