If you use the free prime shipment of a friend or family member and you do not live in the same house, you may have to pay a monthly costs. By one Updated customer service page for the first time reported by The edgeAmazon terminates his Prime Invitee -benefit benefit program on 1 October.
The program is replaced by Amazon Family, which includes many of the same benefits as Prime Invitee. But the Amazon family only works for a maximum of two adults and four children who live in the same “primary residential address” – a shared house. That no longer means free shipping to other addresses.
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If you are the beneficiary of the Prime Invitee benefits of someone else, you will have a month to take advantage of the current program before the changes come into force.
From October you have to get your own Amazon Prime subscription To take advantage of the free shipping program of the company. First subscribers receive a year of prime membership for $ 15, but you will be stuck to save $ 15 a month to keep your subscription afterwards.
Prime -delaying registrations
This movement will follow shortly thereafter Reuters reported The registrations of Amazon’s Prime Account recently delayed despite an extended July Prime Day event. While the company reported eruption sales figures, new Prime subscriptions did not meet internal expectations. In the US they lacked last year’s registration statistics.
According to Reuters, Amazon registered 5.4 million American registrations during the 21-day run-up to the Prime Day event, about 116,000 less than in the same period in 2024 and 106,000 below the company’s own goal, a decrease of approximately 2% in both statistics.
By forcing individual households to have their own subscriptions, Amazon would like to be looking to get more Prime accounts after he had previously missed the goal.
Amazon is not the first company to prevent sharing passwords between family and friends. The e-commerce Gigant is only the last to follow the performance of Netflix’s account sharing. Although it is unclear whether this change will work for Amazon, Netflix has won more than 200,000 subscribers after the policy change.
The new Amazon Family Program (previously known as Amazon Househuis) offers main benefits for a maximum of two adults and four children in one house, including free shipping, prime video, prime lecture, Amazon Music and more. The subscription also includes benefits for certain external companies such as Grubhub.
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