This YouTube segment (hosted by Dan Novaes) explains practical ways to save on recurring Amazon purchases by combining built-in discounts and credit-card rewards. Key recommendations: use Amazon Subscribe & Save for roughly 10–15% off eligible recurring household items, use Amazon-branded credit cards to earn ~5% cash back (up to 6% with slower shipping), and increase signup-bonus eligibility by purchasing Amazon gift cards to meet minimum spend. The speaker gives concrete personal numbers to illustrate annual and multi-year savings and ends with a call-to-action to join a free community.
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10–15%
5% (rises to 6% if willing to wait an extra day or two in shipping)
Approximately $20,000–$30,000 per year
About $1,500 per year
About $500 additional (totaling roughly $2,000 extra per year)
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So let's talk about something we all do. We buy the same stuff over and over. Paper towels, vitamins, dog food, laundry pods. They're already spending hundreds, thousands of dollars a year automatically. But if you're not combining the right discounts and rewards, you're overpaying every single month. And that really adds up. So there's two things from Amazon that are highly underutilized that I would recommend you to do. Me personally, I shop probably 85% of my things from Amazon because it's very simple. It gets to my house, I don't have to think. And one of the things that we often use is Amazon subscribe and Save feature. This allows you to save anywhere from 10 to 15% on the things you buy. So, so you know, as long as you're timely and you're thoughtful about when you're getting your paper towels, when you're getting these everyday items that will add up to hundreds or thousands of dollars a year in extra savings. The other thing that we do is that Amazon has two cards specifically that have one of the best cashback systems I've ever seen. You can save 5% on all of your purchases. And if you're willing to wait an extra day or two in shipping, that actually goes up to 6%. Now I at my household spend in the vicinity of probably 20 to $30,000 a year on Amazon at which all of that money I am getting 5% cash back. And so that is an extra 1500 dollars to buy things that I was going to buy anyways through Amazon's just by using their credit card. And then if I add the subscribe and Save to the items that are applicable to that, we're talking about an extra $500, so $2,000 extra a year of, over the course of 10 years, 20 extra thousand dollars. And so you get my drift here. That is like two amazing vacations. That is a year at an in state college. So you get the drift here. Another area that I often see people struggle with is how to get those signup bonuses from those credit cards. What I've done in the past is I will go on Amazon and I will buy $5,000 worth of gift cards on Amazon itself and I will load them onto my account. I, I know that over the course of the next three to six months, I will utilize that on everyday purchases and I'm able then to collect that 100 or 150,000 point signup bonus very easily and essentially for free for spending on things that I was going to spend anyways. Now you're not going to get that 5% Amazon credit by doing it this way, but you are going to get that sign up bonus and it's a way to basically increase the amount of spend that is remaining with within that challenge period for that new signup. So these are the ways to basically utilize your everyday spend to maximize savings, maximize earnings, and maximize your credit card bonuses. If this sounds interesting to you, join our free community. You don't need to be rich to live like the 1%. You just need to learn what they do. This is UBK.
