Amazon Is Quietly Axing A Big Prime Shipping Perk. Here's What's Going Away - And When

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Amazon is ending nan Prime Invitee program.
• The programme fto group stock Prime shipping extracurricular their home.
• Customers are being rolled into nan Amazon Family program.

It's nan extremity of an era for Prime Invitee users.

Through nan Prime Invitee program, established successful 2008, subscribers could stock their shipping benefits pinch different group who unrecorded successful their "household" moreover if they unrecorded astatine different address.

That programme is ending astatine nan extremity of this month. Customers will rotation into nan Amazon Family program, which lets you stock Prime benefits pinch 1 different big and 4 kids in your home. Family members besides stock Amazon Music, prime integer contented for illustration audiobooks and eBooks, entree to Grubhub+, and more. 

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New signups for Prime Invitee person been closed for respective years, but users successful nan programme person been grandfathered successful -- until now. 

The alteration was first spotted on an Amazon support page, but according to a CNBC report, Amazon has besides notified immoderate customers. 

"We are penning to pass you that nan Prime Invitee Program, which allowed sharing Prime's fast, free transportation pinch others, will extremity connected October 1, 2025," nan connection read. The mentation added that invited guests will besides get a notice, but by September 5, 2025 -- a period aft nan use ends.

The email besides indicated that affected users tin motion up to get Amazon Prime for $14.99 for a full year, but aft that, nan value jumps to nan normal $14.99 a month.

How does Amazon Family work?

According to nan support page, you and your invitee must unrecorded together astatine nan aforesaid superior residential address, aliases nan reside you see to beryllium your location and wherever you walk astir of your time.

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You tin still acquisition an point for personification from your relationship and person it sent to their address, but that's not astir arsenic convenient arsenic nan erstwhile option. Another awesome alteration is that Prime Invitee doesn't require users to stock a wallet while Prime Family does. Sharing a integer wallet is portion of Amazon's measurement of ensuring each members are successful nan aforesaid "house." 

How to move from Prime Invitee to Amazon Family

To group up your caller account, caput to nan Amazon Family page and click "Add a caller member." Adult invitees will request to judge nan invitation. Additional big members, Amazon said, will request their ain Prime membership.

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