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Amazon Cuts Down On Prime Sharing
An anonymous reader writes: Tech Crunch reports that Amazon quietly rolled out changes to how their Prime subscriptions can be shared. The good news is that existing members aren't immediately losing their current sharing setups. It used to be that Amazon would let Prime subscribers share free shipping and a few other benefits with up to four other "household" members, with little restriction on what counted as a "household." The bad news: as of last weekend, Amazon now limits sharing to one other adult and four "child" profiles. The adults will need to authorize each other to use credit/debit cards associated with the account. Amazon didn't make any announcement about this, so it's unknown how long existing Prime shares will stay in effect. They could disappear when the subscription is up for renewal, or earlier if Amazon decides to crack down on it.
Where do you live?
My family uses Amazon. We all live in the same house. 96 separate orders shipped to the house so far this year. 168 in 2014. That is ORDERS, not just 96 and 168 items.
To each his won. I see the benefit of Prime just for the shipping alone.
I've only watched a prime video once and my wife got 2 Kindle books once.