My kids would use my phone number at CVS when in high school. Fast forward to my son being married, living in another city and still using my number. I always had my account set to emailed receipts, so it was not unusually to get an email with his purchases.
Once my DIL was close to her due date with our first grandchild. I get an email and noticed it was from the CVS across from the hospital where she will deliver. On the receipt were feminine pads, so I immediate think she is in labor and they make a stop on the way to the hospital. DIL is not a planner, so this is plausible! Nope, son was just picking them up on his way home from work for her bag!
If Iâm understanding correctly, the difference is that there will no longer be an option to have a second adult share the account with their own login. Sure, as long as youâre willing to share your login/password, you can still do that with as many people as youâre comfortable with. But if two adults want to be able to have private logins for whatever reason (privacy? Gift shopping?) then they will no longer be able to do that with a single Prime membership fee. Or maybe they still can if theyâre in the same household? Thatâs the part thatâs not clear to me.
Oh, Iâm so cheap that Iâll give up my private info to save a buck. (thus my kid using my REI login, which I think is just my phone number or email - I donât even know)
The one I think is unfair is I get my netflix, Apple+ and Hulu through TMobile. My daughterâs phone is also on that account but she doesnât get those services. I think it should be available to all numbers on the account. Now I donât think she pays for those but gets them somehow thru her father in law, but still! She also has a Southwest credit card on my account because her email on her FF account has my email on it because sheâs had the FF account since she was too young to have her own email but I donât think she can get a free checked bag because she isnât the primary card holder (my friend said she canât get that on her United CC because the primary holder is her husband, so she has to go complain every time she takes a flight).
Why are they trying to make our lives so complicated!
I did the reverse. I used my kids (actually dau in lawâs) REI account to buy a wedding gift for a relative and it accidentally used up her reward/credit that was in her account. Oops.
she was fine with it, but I was a little embarrassed
Full disclaimerâŠone time, we were at an REI store. DH found a great shirt he wanted. When we went to check out, the clerk said we had enough points to get it for free! (We hadnât bought anything for yearsâŠbut DD hadđ€Ł). So we used the points to get the shirt. Iâve had this account since 1971. I figured the points were mine to use!
I think that, even though I used up her credit, the purchase I made was notably larger than the credit amount so I think it replaced much of the credit I had accidentally used.
This is the part that I find annoying. The only time that I really use Amazon, it is to purchase gifts so Iâd rather my shopping history not be visible to others in my household. Frankly, I donât want to see what my college and teen kids purchase either. Amazon has gotten rid of the Amazon Teen login program as well âexisting teen accounts still work, but you canât create new ones. So now it is a rigamarole. I donât mind my kids knowing my password, but now they have to remember to change the payment method to their own funds when they use the account as opposed to the charge automatically going to their cards. Not a huge deal, but an extra step and less private for everyone.
Or they can get their own accounts, which is what Amazon wants. Mine used to use mine and I could see what she was buying if, 1. I looked or 2. she was the last one to buy things or 3. she saved them (and I had to make sure not to buy those things accidently.
My current âdisappointmentâ in Amazon is I bought some dog tags that were supposed to be delivered today but now wonât be here till Wednesday. I might have picked a different seller if Iâd known they would be 3-4 days later. They are tags for the dogs with MY phone number on them as the dog sitter as my daughter/SIL are out of the country for 2 weeks so if the dogs escape I want the finder to call me and not the kids who will be on the top of a mountain in Africa.
I have an account. All 3 of my kids have my password to it and store their credit cards as options on it too. 2 of the 3 order things often. I sometimes happen to see what they order and they of course see mine if they want to but I donât go looking to see what they buy and if itâs that important to them, they can get their own account! But this has worked for us for a long time. One account, one log in. They pick their own shipping address.
Will this still work for us? Unsure. We will see come October 1!
For the most part we have had it set up this way since they were all in college and would order. The only time it gets a little messy is if someone enters like a gift card and it still has a balance - sometimes Amazon just applies the balance to the next order.
Iâm PRETTY SURE that I have sometimes ordered a gift for one of them and that I could go into some spot on my account and check to make the gift item not visible to anyone else. I mostly do that during the Christmas holidays.
You can archive the order and it wonât be visible unless they go poking into the archives. The only issue is that emails are still sent that say youâve ordered it and also when itâs shipped. Our Amazon is in hâs email, but I have his password and will go delete the first email and let him know Iâve bought something on Amazon for him so try not to look too hard for the shipped email. I will regularly try to catch it but he might see it first.
our kids use our account too with their credit cards and addresses. I never pay attention to what anyone orders
I am dictating this while I am sitting on Amazon chat waiting for another response. They were supposed to credit me back for the fraudulent item I returned 2 weeks ago and they have Now now twice posted that the refund, which is simply going to my Amazon gift card account, is âdelayedâ. The first agent I got online today disappeared and now I am on with another agent, but sitting here waiting for another response. Stay tuned
update: The second agent said there had been a âtechnical glitchâ and the refund has been approved and will show up in my gift card account in 2-4 hours. Hopefully soâŠ..
I have to say, (knock on wood) that I order from Amazon maybe once a week and I just have rarely had any issues with wrong items, defective items or credits. I wonder if there is a correlation between how often people order and the % of error.
Really not even just Amazon - any retailer. I think I am probably an âaverageâ online shopper - Iâm not someone who orders multiple items at a time to find the one that fits or that kind of thing. Iâm just surprised (but I believe it!) that so many have shipping/payment issues.
Eta: once I ordered a mattress pad that was on sale and what arrived was a very heavy wooden spice rack with glass containers. They wanted me to take it and return it to a UPS store, but I had a broken pelvis at the time from a ski accident and couldnât move or even lift it so they told me to keep it. ultimately, when I was strong enough to be in physical Therapy I gave it to one of the receptionists. She had to come get it out of my car. Then months later I got charged for the mattress pad and twice had to go through getting them to take the charge off my account. Adding insult to injury they charged me the full price of the mattress pad not the sale price. They had though, replaced the spice rack with the correct mattress pad.
