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This is pretty awesome, but note this (from the FAQ):

"When you sign up for Amazon Student, you'll receive e-mail alerts for discounts and promotions. If you don't want any more Amazon Student e-mails, you may cancel your Amazon Student membership. If you do this, your Amazon Prime benefits will also end when the membership is canceled."

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If you have a Gmail account you can ad an "+Amazon"- or whatever- to then end. This allows you to easily categorize these emails, just in-case you do want to put them in the trash or use some other filter. Example: firstname.lastname+AMAZON@gmail.com

On a side note, you can also remove any periods(.) from an email. Example: firstname.lastname@gmail.com becomes firstnamelastname@gmail.com. I think this was done to help cut back on phishing and scamming, but I don't really know why.

If you have a Gmail account, it won't work for this. You have to sign up with a .edu email account and verify that it's you.

I used my regular gmail/amazon account and it just had me add my .edu email. I think most comm will come through my gmail.

This is what I did last year when buying books. They used my .edu address to verify that I was at a university, but sent notifications to my Gmail.

My university has since moved to Microsoft's Live service- retaining the .edu extension. I will try to see if the plus(+) notion works with it.

Oh. I already get a fair amount of amazon email to my gmail and I've already got filters set up, so if they send more I'll be prepared!

fwiw, most email servers actually support the +notation

Gmail filters should take care of that.

This is already taken care of by the fact that I rarely use my .edu email account.

If I can suffer through Southwest's unnecessary dinning reward emails, I can suffer through manually deleting these emails.

I'm just glad there's this provision:

"The automatic renewal provisions in the Amazon Prime Terms & Conditions (which would require you to pay for Amazon Prime) do not apply to this membership, even if we decide to extend the free Amazon Prime offer beyond one year."

So they can't charge me behind my back ^_^

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