Stop Increasing Amazon Prime Membership Fee With these 3 Simple Steps!ByGoran Spasojevic-April 30 2018.834 A gift card workaround is used and disabled every 12 months. Since Amazon revealed they’re going to bump up their subscription fee for the Prime membership customers have been discussing the new price and if the higher price is worth the cost as you get some extra benefits. We found out, however, that there’s a way to get around the newly-increased price, and it involves using Amazon gift cards. The first move would sound counter-intuitive but you must cancel your membership with Amazon Prime. Don’t panic if your Prime Account will not be canceled until the date of renewal. So click on the “End My Benefits” button once you reach your Prime membership tab. .835.835 Figure 1 Amazon Photo Courtesy The third and final move is to use the gift cards received once every 12 months before the expiry of your Prime membership. Another thing to be vigilant about before you try this out says the Wirecutter Deals is the fact that if you already have an account that has been active since 2015 and have “full family features” allowed by doing phase one of this guide, you would lose those benefits. And if you have one of these profiles, you do not want to do that.