Amazon Prime has long been one of the best subscription services money can buy, and now it just got a lot sweeter (or saltier, depending on your tastes). Right now, Prime members can get two years of Doordash's subscription service, Dashpass, completely free. The pass offers unlimited AU$0 deliveries from thousands of eligible restaurants on orders over $12 (over $30 for groceries), so if you're someone who's given up on food delivery due to high costs, this offer is for you, which further increases the incredible value. offered by a Prime membership.
For just AU$9.99 each month (or just AU$79.99 annually), Prime members get fast, free delivery on millions of domestic items purchased on Amazon, free international shipping on eligible orders, and early access to deals for limited time. Additionally, Prime members also get access to Prime Video, Prime Reading, Prime Gaming, and Amazon Music Prime at no additional cost.
It's a truly incredible value, and with Amazon's early Black Friday sales already dropping, free fast shipping makes sense. If now wasn't the best time to be a Prime member, two years of free delivery and reduced rates through Doordash certainly is. After all, it's almost summer: who wants to leave the house if they don't have to?
Food delivery is hugely convenient, but the cost quickly started to make it very difficult to justify, unless you take advantage of limited-time offers or order so much that the AU$5-AU$15 in additional fees are a drop in the bucket . . But with Dashpass free delivery, there's no downside (aside from a few notches on the belt). I mean, why would you stop your show, pause your movie, or worse yet, waste half your lunch hour picking up your order, when you can drop it on your lap at no additional cost?
And that's before you add in the benefits you already get (or could get) from Amazon Prime. We've reviewed them before – free delivery, free international delivery, one-day delivery, exclusive deals, plus Amazon Prime Video, Prime Music and Prime Reading – but it's really worth expanding on how good it all is.
Completely free for Prime members, even if it claims to cost AU$9.99 per month than Prime, Prime Video might be the best streaming service in Australia. And while the ads may put you off, the free tier is significantly more popular than the AU$12.99 ad-free tier, and you still get the same access to programs like the boys, Invincible, radioactive dust and The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power.
Then there's Prime Gaming, which offers members free games, a free monthly subscription to the Twitch channel, all your favorite music and podcasts with Amazon Music Prime, and to top it all off, Prime members get thousands of e-books, comics, children's books and more through Prime Reading. Amazon Music Unlimited and Kindle Unlimited expand on these features at an additional cost, but as free add-ons, there's nothing better.
If your goal for December is washboard abs, free delivery on Doordash may not be what you're looking for. The allure of Indian food (including Samosa) can be a little more tempting than chicken and broccoli after work. For everyone else, however, this deal adds even more incredible value to Amazon Prime, at no extra cost to you. Just remember: if you cancel your Prime membership, your free Dashpass goes with it.