About
About The Perk Index
The Perk Index scores Amazon Prime perks, one at a time, on whether each one changes an ordinary week. The name is the promise: one question, asked of every perk, answered in public with the date attached.
What this site is
Most coverage of Prime stops at the feature list, because the feature list is what the marketing department wrote. We start at Amazon's own help pages, work outward to what each perk does to a week, and finish with a verdict on whether the membership earns its place for the reader the page was written for.
Every perk is scored on the same seven documented criteria, published in full in the methodology, with a revision date on every page that cites a score.
Who writes it
One person writes and scores every page here, under the pen name Nora Whitlock. The pen name is disclosed on purpose, because a byline should say what it is.
What it is not is a credential. There is no press access, no staff account, and no inside track, so nothing here comes from anywhere a reader could not go. Every mechanic is read off Amazon's published help pages and terms, on the date printed at the top of the page.
The method is the whole claim. Read the terms, keep dated notes on what changed, and translate specs into Tuesdays.
How we get paid
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. If you start a membership through a link on this site, we may earn a commission. It costs you nothing extra, and the commission is identical no matter what we tell you.
The only way honesty costs us money is if you decide not to join. We accept that on purpose. The full disclosure is here.
What we will not do
- We will not claim to have tested anything, or any firsthand experience we did not have.
- We will not invent screenshots, timelines, quotes, or insider information.
- We will not publish a price without a timestamp.
- We will not state a trial length, a billing date, or a deadline we have not confirmed on Amazon's own pages.
- We will not tell you that you qualify for something.
Corrections
If a published mechanic is wrong, we correct it and update the page's revision date. Perk mechanics are sourced from Amazon's published help pages and terms, checked on the date shown on each page.
The bottom line
If a Prime guide never once tells you not to join Prime, it is not a guide. It is an ad.