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Share Your Amazon Prime Benefits

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25 pointsmshafrir13 comments

Why is this being upvoted? There is nothing new about being able to share Amazon Prime benefits.

And here I was hoping it was an annoucement that you would henceforth be able to share your Kindle lending library benefits. That's my biggest annoyance, since I'm not the one in the household who has a Kindle.

It used to be only in the same household. It now reads "or up to four coworkers." Which means you can share it with anyone you know.

Me and the wife weren't even sharing her Prime because we live at different addresses and didn't want her account to get frozen... Now we can!

Amazon wouldn't have frozen her account. Speaking from personal experience, they don't seem to care even if the family member moves 3000 miles away from the Prime subscriber.

A "friend" of mine may have been sharing his Prime account with two unrelated friends who live in totally different parts of the USA for years with no problems.

Perhaps they are making this sort of thing more legitimate but Prime sharing has always been a thing.

They've had this since the beginning of Prime in 2005. 4 members of your household or 4 coworkers basically means anyone you want, regardless of if they have the same address as you.

Seems like it doesn't work if you signed up for a paid Prime subscription through Amazon Student. :(

I have the same problem... even though I now pay for a full membership. I submitted a ticket.

I also have the same problem

It says right there:

> Note: Amazon Mom and Amazon Student members with Amazon Prime shipping benefits and customers receiving a free 30 days of Amazon Prime benefits with Kindle Fire won't be able to share their benefits.

Yeah but I'm a paying customer now.

Once I actually got to the form for sharing Prime benefits, I noticed that it doesn't actually include co-workers. The options for "relationship to primary member" only include family relationships like "spouse", "unmarried partner", "parent", "child", etc.

i only see the option to add family members.

does this share history on the account too? i buy these people gifts!

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