Adventures in Amazon Mom

The Amazon Mom program is CHANGING, and not going to be nearly as good as the old on in my opinion.  This makes me a little sad.  This is an email that was sent to me directly from Amazon;

"The Amazon Mom program is changing in 2012 and we want to make sure you know about it. Some of these changes affect your membership. Here's how:

1) Starting on January 24, 2012, the maximum discount available on diapers and wipes subscriptions will be 20%. This includes a 5% Subscribe & Save discount plus an additional 15% exclusively for Amazon Mom members who are earning free shipping benefits or have an active Amazon Prime membership.

2) Customers who join Amazon Mom in 2012 will get three months of FREE Two-Day Shipping benefits. Once the initial free period is over, customers can join Amazon Prime to continue to receive full access to Amazon Mom and Amazon Prime benefits.

We hope that you have enjoyed the value and convenience of your Amazon Mom membership over the past year. To continue receiving all the benefits of Amazon Mom, join Amazon Prime for $79/year. As a Prime member you'll receive:

1) 20% off diapers and wipes subscriptions with Amazon Mom and Subscribe & Save.
FREE Two-Day Shipping on millions of items.

2) Unlimited instant streaming of thousands of videos with a wide range of content for the whole family, including Sesame Street and Phineas and Ferb.

3) A Kindle book to borrow for free each month from the Kindle Owners' Lending Library.
Membership sharing benefits: invite up to four household members to share your shipping benefits for free."

Confusing right??  So this means if you are an existing Amazon Mom member;

1) All Subscribe & Save discounts will be dropped down to a total of 20% off, even if you have subscriptions that started at 30% off.

2) After 3 months, you’ll need an Amazon Prime membership to get the extra 15% Amazon Mom discount.

The real question is would Amazon Prime be worth it for you and your family?  For us not so much!  We are pretty much on the tail end of wipes and diapers so that savings is not going to be necessary.  Until then, I play the Walgreens and CVS games and get great deals on my diapers that way, for the oldest.  The youngest is in cloth.  I would never use the free streaming and I borrow and lend Kindle books with friend all the time, so neither of these are incentives for me.

The other thing I use my Amazon Mom account is for snacks and food.  I have found so many of these items qualify for free super saver shipping after $25, that I am still not paying for shipping.  Don't forget you can get free two day shipping from Diapers.com after $50 AND you can use coupons AND they price match!  So, while Amazon Mom has been good for the last year or so, it might be worth it now to switch over to Diapers.com for your baby needs.

ALSO, a friendly reminder...if you have subscriptions open in the Subscribe and Save program on Amazon, you  should cancel them now.  They will still send you the items even if you are out of the program and the costs are much higher!!!