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One year of Amazon Prime free for students
- caryme 16y agoAmazon claims that email is not a valid .edu address. It says the same for my roommate's email. We both go to Northwestern University where the student email addresses are Google Apps emails @u.northwestern.edu.
- profgubler 16y agoI go to Notre Dame and we have Google Apps. Our emails however look normal with a @nd.edu domain and the sign up worked for me.
- sliverstorm 16y agomy guess is it's because you have two periods in the @... section
- jlazarow 16y agonope, works with my mail.utexas.edu email.
- paulbaumgart 16y agoThe problem might be that subdomains are often assigned to people/groups affiliated with the university who can then run their own mail servers under that subdomain. This makes it trivial to give an email address ending in .edu to people who aren't students. Since in my experience Amazon's customer support people are actually people, they might be able to make an exception for your particular domain if you contact them.
- mattmillr 16y agoI don't think I ever had a me@domain.edu address in school. There was always an vestigial environment name in the middle (@eos.ncsu.edu and @titan.sfasu.edu)
- caryme 16y agoUpdate: Shortly after I contacted Amazon customer service, my account was upgraded to prime. I haven't checked with friends to see if they can use their emails yet.
- anotherperson 16y agoI tried a free two month trial of this a couple years ago. It was right around this time too. Prime is incredibly useful for ordering textbooks.
- johnswamps 16y agoIt's incredibly useful for ordering a lot of things on Amazon. Prime is quite devious, it's completely changed the way I use Amazon and has dramatically increased the amount of money I spend there. To wit: 1. I now order many things I wouldn't have even considered ordering on-line before. When I can order something off Amazon and have it in 2 days with free shipping, why bother buying it at the store? 2. The amount of time I wait before ordering an item has decreased. While before I would "batch order" anything I want from Amazon, giving me time to review everything I was thinking of purchasing, not needing to worry about shipping lends itself to ordering items one at a time. One Click makes it even easier. This makes impulse buys a lot easier. 3. Ordering something from Amazon is so much more attractive than ordering from other websites now, even more than it was before. Even when ordering from the Amazon site, I almost always buy prime eligible items which are usually items sold by Amazon itself, not a retailer. I'll usually spend a few extra bucks buying the same item from Amazon than from somewhere else just for the convenience. tldr: Prime makes you spend a lot of money at Amazon
- aaronbrethorst 16y agoAgree. I will go out of my way to avoid shopping in stores. I think I probably make half or more of my required and discretionary purchases on Amazon, simply because Prime is so friggin' easy.
- necubi 16y agoThis is pretty awesome, but note this (from the FAQ): "When you sign up for Amazon Student, you'll receive e-mail alerts for discounts and promotions. If you don't want any more Amazon Student e-mails, you may cancel your Amazon Student membership. If you do this, your Amazon Prime benefits will also end when the membership is canceled."
- jackowayed 16y agoGmail filters should take care of that.
- baddox 16y agoThis is already taken care of by the fact that I rarely use my .edu email account.
- ilovecomputers 16y agoIf I can suffer through Southwest's unnecessary dinning reward emails, I can suffer through manually deleting these emails. I'm just glad there's this provision: "The automatic renewal provisions in the Amazon Prime Terms & Conditions (which would require you to pay for Amazon Prime) do not apply to this membership, even if we decide to extend the free Amazon Prime offer beyond one year." So they can't charge me behind my back ^_^
- woodall 16y agoIf you have a Gmail account you can ad an "+Amazon"- or whatever- to then end. This allows you to easily categorize these emails, just in-case you do want to put them in the trash or use some other filter. Example: firstname.lastname+AMAZON@gmail.com On a side note, you can also remove any periods(.) from an email. Example: firstname.lastname@gmail.com becomes firstnamelastname@gmail.com. I think this was done to help cut back on phishing and scamming, but I don't really know why.
- cyen 16y agofwiw, most email servers actually support the +notation
- elbenshira 16y agoI hate Amazon Prime. It made me buy tons of awesome books resulting in an awesome credit card bill.
- grinich 16y agoNot to mention toothpaste, shoes, 5 pounds of raisins, Planet Earth, shampoo, window blinds, workout clothes, and all of my Christmas gifts.
- bjoernw 16y agoThink about the environmental impact of having toothpaste shipped to your house on a UPS truck vs. picking one up at the store while doing your groceries. I like the idea of Amazon Prime but I would feel bad just ordering some paper towels or toothpaste because I can.
- potatolicious 16y agoThe whole concept of online shopping gets greener as it grows - most people live driving distance away from the stores they regularly visit. The difference is between a tightly packed, highly route and fuel-optimized delivery system... or everyone's single-occupancy vehicle on the road zipping between strip malls. It's wasteful if the UPS truck isn't being sufficiently utilized, it's downright awesome if it is.
- Robin_Message 16y agoSo your point is that strip malls and car dependency are bad, right? But that doesn't mean that trucking a tube of toothpaste to my house is good. FWIW, I cycle to the store, so until Amazon has a distribution hub in my town and cycle couriers for delivery, they're not going to be more fuel-efficient.
- derobert 16y agoYou need to consider the amount of fuel used to produce the calories you consume cycling, which may be more or less than UPS, depending on how much additional driving UPS has to do to deliver (it may be fairly small e.g., if they're already in your neighborhood for another delivery). [Of course, cycling has health benefits too, but if we're just considering fuel...]
- Alex3917 16y ago"When you sign up for Amazon Student, you'll receive e-mail alerts for discounts and promotions. If you don't want any more Amazon Student e-mails, you may cancel your Amazon Student membership. If you do this, your Amazon Prime benefits will also end when the membership is canceled." This is brilliant.
- stcredzero 16y agoThey're trying to hook them early. It's just like giving college students credit cards. (I am a massive Prime user myself.)
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- kunjaan 16y agoI had a trial Prime service and i was thinking getting one. I am so happy. : )
- dfreidin 16y agoThey couldn't have done this a few months ago when I was still a student?
- il 16y agoYour school email address should still be valid.
- deltaqueue 16y agoPrime is an extremely smart program. You WILL end up spending more money at Amazon, but it's OK because their prices are great and you end up saving an incredible amount of time. You have to be careful to use it efficiently (and not "shop"/browse and accumulate too much stuff), though. I've bought thousands of dollars worth of stuff over the past few years--electronics, books, toothpaste, vitamins, and even oatmeal--and haven't been to Bed Bath and Beyond / Walmart / etc. in ages. This means I can do enjoyable things on the weekend instead of running errands.
- potatolicious 16y agoAnd I practically refuse to buy things from third-parties that are not Prime-eligible (i.e., sellers who don't use Fulfillment by Amazon)... it's a deviously smart tactic that will get sellers to fall in line into Amazon's own selling ecosystem.
- ShabbyDoo 16y agoAmazon must know that tons of alums still have .edu email addresses. Perhaps this program is also a form of price discrimination for Prime? Those willing to cheat the system are less likely to pay $80/year than those who won't?
- jbeda 16y agoThe Terms state: "We may ask you to furnish documentation supporting your eligibility. If you do not provide documentation indicating that you meet the eligibility requirements above, you may be required to reimburse us for benefits you received as a result of your Amazon Student membership." If they call you on it, you may be on the hook for full shipping charges for everything you ordered. Not clear what would happen if you don't pony up but banishment from Amazon would be slightly painful for me, at least.
- ShabbyDoo 16y agoWouldn't it be hard for Amazon to claim that you owe them more than $80 given that they sell Prime for that price? And, Amazon probably won't ask everyone (or even many students) for proof given that most would probably forget -- an outcome which hurts Amazon's goal of capturing student revenue.
- jergason 16y agoThey could charge you for how much shipping would have cost if you weren't an Amazon Prime member.
- kacy 16y agoI know I'm just like most of the people commenting here, but this is an incredible deal. Over the last three semesters, I've saved so much money on textbooks. In fact, more than half of the books I've purchased new on Amazon were a few dollars cheaper than the used textbooks in my student store. Go take advantage of this if you can! :-)
- chime 16y agoThis is sweet. I am already a paying Prime member. I just signed up for the Student Prime and got a refund of $50+ for the remainder of my plan. I'm now signed up as a student Prime member.
- tibbon 16y agoMy college's email addresses for students are all .net addresses. Only faculty get .edu addresses. I went to Berklee. I just emailed customer support about it to see if it would still work.
- k0z 16y agoIf you really went to Berkeley, don't you think you'd know how to spell it?
- harpastum 16y agoBerklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music or look at http://www.berklee.edu/ http://www.berklee.edu/
- fairlyodd 16y agoCORRECTION: Amazon Prime free for anyone with a .edu mail address. I graduated long ago, but my .edu mail address is for life, so I occasionally mooch on these discounts. Too bad I already ponied up for an Amazon Prime this year :|
- Jach 16y agoArgh, I just bought some books last week too. Oh well, I'll need more. Signed up!
- sliverstorm 16y agoIt seems to me like Amazon could really use it's own shipping co. The Kindle really helps reduce delivery burden I'm sure, but the best model for Amazon involves reducing delivery times across the board. Bringing the middleman (delivery service) into the fold would help them reach that goal. Acquisition of FedEx or UPS imminent?
- wmf 16y agoAmazonFresh (http://fresh.amazon.com/ http://fresh.amazon.com/) and AmazonTote (http://tote.amazon.com/AmazonToteLearnMore http://tote.amazon.com/AmazonToteLearnMore) are already up and running in the Seattle area. Modulo sales tax concerns, I could see them expanding to other areas.
- ippisl 16y agoDoesn't amazon tote use freelance shipping companies?
- ramchip 16y agoAm I wrong or is this only for Americans? > Only students currently enrolled in a college or university who have a valid .edu e-mail address to confirm their status are eligible to participate in Amazon Student.
- agravier 16y agoyou are right.
- freshfey 16y agoUS only :(