Online mega-shop Amazon is offering a bunch of special deals today, including some big discounts on cycling and fitness gear — but only for people who've signed up for the Amazon Prime service. Here's how to take advantage without getting lumbered with the £79 Prime annual fee.
There are upcoming deals on fitness bands, iPhone heart rate monitors, bike lights, GPS watches, track pumps and more.
Amazon is doing this in the hope that people will sign up for Prime intending to cancel after the 28-day trial period, but forget. It's the same idea as gym membership: many join and pay the monthly fee, few actually get on the weights machines or do the classes more than a handful of times.
We suggest you enjoy the things Prime offers — deals, free next-day delivery, movies and other video on demand — for four weeks but set an alarm on your phone and on-line calendar or even in one of those paper things some folks still use to remind yourself to cancel.
It's also a good way to help keep road.cc going. We get a bung for everyone who signs up by following this link, even if they cancel, so it won't cost you anything.

6 thoughts on “Grab some cycling bargains from Amazon on Prime Day”
you don’t even need to set
you don’t even need to set the reminder, as soon as you have signed up for the free trial go into your prime account and cancel the automatic renewal, the trial still runs for 28 days and then shuts down automatically
EK Spinner wrote:you don’t
Top Tip thanks dude.
Shop elsewhere – tax dodging
Shop elsewhere – tax dodging ****holes!
jasecd wrote:Shop elsewhere –
They stopped routing profits through Luxembourg in May.
Yeah. Buy on eBay from China!
Yeah. Buy on eBay from China!
monkeytrousers wrote:Yeah.
Better still, cut out the middle men and buy direct from the criminals in your own home town!