With the end of the holiday season upon us, some of the best deals of the year are available. The poor economy along with faltering retail sales has created a perfect recipe for consumer deals.

To start off, Amazon is offering subscriptions to their Amazon Prime service for only $59, $20 off the regular price. Amazon Prime customers get free two-day shipping on all items sold by Amazon (third party resellers don’t qualify) and can upgrade to one-day shipping for only $3.99. This offer ends tomorrow.

For those of you still looking for an iPhone, AT&T is offering refurbished models at heavy discounts. An 8GB version can be had for only $99, while 16 GB will only set you back $199. As with all iPhone sales, buying ones entails handing over the yoke and whip and submitting to a 2-year contract.

Finally, college students who received Windows laptops under the tree this year ought to check out Microsoft DreamSpark. After proving your student status with Microsoft, you can download a plethora of developer tools for free, including Visual Studio 2008 Professional, Expression Studio 2, Game Studio 2.0, Visual C++, and Windows Server 2008. Interested high school students should check out this link.