Amazon Prime works well for sending supplies to school. With more than one child away at school, it appears to make more sense to set myself up as an Amazon Prime member and add kids under Amazon Household rather than set the kids up individually under Amazon Student (which is 1/2 price of regular membership). The rules around Amazon Household are a little hazy. Anyone taken a look at this?
I think the only thing the kids would miss under the Household option would be streaming music.
Thanks.
We just share the password to our Amazon Prime account and have several payment methods and mailing addresses on file.
We do, too.
We share the password, and each child has his CC number stored, so each just orders what they want, send it to themselves, and pay it themselves.
I have a Prime account and my D has a student Prime account. But the student Prime account does not include the Prime videos, so she uses my account to watch movies and TV. My S just uses my Prime account for all of his purchases - it allows you to use multiple shipping addresses and credit cards.
I have just made our separate accounts a household account with someone else in my residence who is the Prime member. All I have used it for is to read each other’s Kindle books. I had not realized that I can now view Prime streaming shows on my account but I just tried and I can. I assumed I couldn’t get shipping because it is serving me ads to sign up for Prime. But I just put something in my cart and yes I can get free shipping! thanks for bringing it to my attention.
We have prime through our recently graduated College Student. As others have done, we also have different credit cards and addresses set up for payment and log in under our son’s log-in information. As soon as Amazon figures out he’s not a student we’ll look into a different prime membership, but I can’t imagine doing without Prime now!
I don’t think amazon knows whether a student is still a student. The .edu email acct was used to establish the Prime acct and that’s what seems to matter. Amazon isn’t calling schools up to see if a student is still there. I use a son’s email acct from the univ that he graduated from years ago. There’s been no request to update status.
I wanted to avoid sharing a single Prime account so that the kids don’t see Christmas and birthday gifts and our shopping carts don’t get tangled up.
Original set-up was Prime Student account for D and regular non-Prime account for myself. Total annual cost: $49, and one person gets Prime benefits.
Now thinking Prime Household account for self, and share benefits with two kids who have their own accounts. Total annual cost: $99, and three people get Prime benefits. I believe that we all get the same Prime benefits (free 2-day shipping, streaming video, Kindle library) except the kids don’t get access to Prime Music.
I just don’t see the benefit of Prime Student anymore.
I think my daughter was asked about her edu email. She had been a Prime member for 5 years though so maybe that was it. She still had her school email but had to pay a little more. I was looking at household briefly but for now we are members until Feb 2016 and have video, music etc. It’s been great around the holiday’s with shipping to multiple address’s although I have found that regular Amazon which my son uses, has been much faster also. He gets things that were 5-7 working days in 2-3 many times.