Prime Day Tips
Prime Day is about to begin in a few hours at Amazon.ca, at 3am Eastern tomorrow, so I thought i’d give you some tips:
- A trial membership should be available for free by clicking here. Details will be provided at that site.
- Eligible students can join Prime Student, which is currently provided free for six months and $4.99/month afterwards. Access to Prime Video, Amazon Music Prime, Prime Gaming, and Prime Reading is of course included. Click here for details.
- With membership, popular Prime Video movie rentals will be available for rental at $2.99 or less, these films being available for purchase at a reduced price. This offer ends on July 13th, 2020.
- Select channels will be available for 99 cents per month for two months at Prime video with membership. This includes AMC+, Acorn TV, Alwaysblk, BBC Earth, BBC Select, CityTV+, Family TV, The Great Courses, Hollywood Suite, IFC Films Unlimited, Love Nature, MGM, Nick+, OUTtv, PBS, Paramount+, Shudder, Smithsonian Channel, Stack TV, Starz, Stingray and Sundance Now. This offer ends on July 13th, 2020.
- New subscribers will be able to obtain 4 free months of Amazon Music Unlimited, $8.99/month afterwards. This offer ends on July 13th, 2022. Click here for details.
- Prime members get bonus offers from Amazon Rewards Mastercard upon approval until July 13th, 2020 – Click here for details.
- You can keep track of your potential purchases at Amazon installing Honey on your favourite browser, which will alert you of price drops on items added to your droplist. After installing it, go to the product you want on Amazon (or other participating retailer) and click on the orange logo at the top right of your browser window for options. This app also provides coupons and other bonuses when shopping at participating retailers.
- 5X Bonus Air Miles will be given to Air Miles members on eligible purchases via airmileshops.ca until July 13th. Afterwards 30 bonus Air Miles will be given on eligible purchases of $30 until August 1st, 2022. Details on the latter can be found on the aforementioned site’s main page.
Canada Day Tips
Use public transit. It’s free in some cities like Ottawa, and more convenient to access the popular public event.
Stay hydrated. Always drink water on top of your other beverages. Yes, it may make you visit the restroom more often but you don’t want to become dehydrated.
Wash your hand often/Use hand sanitizer. Nasty bugs take advantage of these events to proliferate and you’re going to be touching surfaces that have been touched by a lot of people in a very short time. Better safe than sorry.
Relax and take it easy. You’ve got a whole weekend. Enjoy it.
Early Prime Day Offers
Although Prime Day is scheduled for the 12th and 13th of July this year, there are offers available now from Amazon and Prime Video, the later being film rentals at $2.99 and lower.
Details are available at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com. And yes, Canadians with a prime membership in the states can take advantage of the offers at the latter. But you can only use the free shipping offers there for American addresses, which is fine if you have a lot of friends and relatives in that country. Or if you have a second residence or vacation home there.
I believe Americans can also purchase a prime membership here in Canada to ship some of their Amazon.ca orders within Canada.
Ontario/Quebec Covid Update & More
Capacity limits will be removed today on establishments that require vaccine passports in Ontario, like cinemas and conventions. But it appears a 50% limit will be imposed on concert venues and theatres according to the official press release from the Government of Ontario.
Proof of vaccination requirements will be lifted on March 1st but social distancing, masks and hand sanitizing will remain for some time, as it will in Quebec, where capacity limits have been lifted for cinemas.
Smaller venues in Quebec with less than 10,000 seats will be allowed to fully open but restaurants, bars and taverns will be limited to 50% capacity until March 14th.
By the way, the Record Store Day release lists for April 23rd and June 18th have been released. You can view them by clicking here.
Deadlines from Canada Post
Here are some useful links from Canada Post:
- Click here to find out how long your parcel will take to reach its destination, within Canada.
- Click here to find out Canada Post’s seasonal deadlines for this year
- Click here for mail delivery disruption information from Canada Post
Black Friday @ Record Stores
Multiple chain and independent record stores through-out Canada are holding Black Friday specials and providing discounts on merchandise that had been released on Record Store Day, so you should probably consider taking a look at what is being offered at these local stores.
I’m going to be browsing some today here in Ottawa, mostly to look for the Special Record Store Day version of Platinum Blonde’s Standing In The Dark LP and other goodies I had passed on previously. And the usual measures are still in place so i’m going to pack a mask and some hand sanitizer, which I recommend you do as well.
By the way, the Black Friday offers are now up at 123ink.ca, Amazon.ca, Alibris (coupons ), Microsoft Canada, Prime Cables, PureVPN
, Rakuten Kobo
, Sennheiser Canada, Sharper Image, and Wondershare Technology. And you might want to check out deals at Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.fr, some of the retailers I use for imports.