Please beware this is YMMV for existing prime members
amazon reserves the right to ban or eliminate you from prime membership
they will also cancel your order gift membership
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We have detected suspicious activity on your account and have locked it as a precaution. Please contact our customer service team for further assistance. For U.S. and Canada please dial 1-800-388-5512 or for International callers (charges may apply) 1-206-577-1364
If you have a grandfathered account (multiple people), you cannot use this to renew without losing grandfathered account status
(Not sure if a question belongs in the wiki, but for someone who had several folks grandfathered in, how can we check to see that they still are? There used to be an Amazon page that showed their names, but I can no longer find it.)
You can purchase multiples but they must be purchased one at a time
There is sales tax applied to this purchase
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- What is the circumstance for getting the account lock mentioned above?
Q: What is the link for checking your Prime membership expiration?
A: https://www.amazon.com/gp/primecentral
- What are each of the links and step-by-step instructions for:
1) Buying multiple gift memberships (as mentioned above)Is anything lost by letting Prime expire, such as watch lists/favorites/viewing history?
2) Canceling Prime Membership auto-renewal
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3) Restarting Prime Membership
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The price of Amazon Prime Membership will increase from $119/year to $139/year. The change will occur sometime in the next month or so (possibly on March 1, 2022). Prime Student price is also increasing from $59/year to $69/year.
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You can lock in the $119 price by purchasing a Gift of Prime membership. These cost $119 right now and they never expire – set your Prime membership not to auto-renew by cancelling the membership using the 'Manage My Membership' tab, and then when it expires you'll apply the Gift of Prime to your account. (You won't lose your full current membership year when cancelling membership, as will be clear on the final screen; they even give the option on the final screen to 'pause' membership.)
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And will chase cc automatically start earning me 5% cash back instead?
Can anyone help?
In October 2021, I let my prime membership lapse to use a "gift of prime" redemption. My shared account still works. Will I be at risk to do this again in October 2022? It's really unclear based on this thread.
As much as I use Prime it will still be worth the cost.
If you're really price sensitive, split the cost of the membership with a friend or family member.
I have auto renew in May.
I send myself a gift membership now.
I don't see a way to turn off auto renew. Do I have to wait and cancel just before expiration, then apply the gift membership?
As far as going back to 2 day shipping. I understand slowing down delivery time because of mail delays, but these are shipping delays. The allure of prime and a major thing that makes it beat out other retailers is that fast shipping. If they're understaffed. that's an issue with the business that shouldn't be passed on to the consumer. I don't know, it just sounds like they're saying that because they can't handle the services they used to provide, they're raising costs.
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In other words, if you think of that extra 2% as a discount on your Prime membership, $3k annual spend at Amazon for example would give you an extra $60 cash back, making the cost of Prime (soon) $80 annually instead of $140.
Edit: 5% applies to Whole Food purchases too.
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