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I can't find an answer to this and most of my searching returns "Prime Student" membership info for college students. My brother has no TV but he has broadband. I want to gift my nieces a Prime Membership, but I don't see how that's possible. I don't want them on my account and it doesn't look like they can have their own because the Prime Membership details specifically state "adult". Even if I let them on my account there would be the simultaneous streaming issue, and they would have to be on a kid's account which isn't what I want (they are in high school). I just want them to be able to access their own prime benefits on their own account.

Anyone know how?
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11-30-2016 at 01:56 PM.
11-30-2016 at 01:56 PM.
Quote from Uter :
I can't find an answer to this and most of my searching returns "Prime Student" membership info for college students. My brother has no TV but he has broadband. I want to gift my nieces a Prime Membership, but I don't see how that's possible. I don't want them on my account and it doesn't look like they can have their own because the Prime Membership details specifically state "adult". Even if I let them on my account there would be the simultaneous streaming issue, and they would have to be on a kid's account which isn't what I want (they are in high school). I just want them to be able to access their own prime benefits on their own account.

Anyone know how?
Be the cool uncle and hook them up with fake IDs?
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11-30-2016 at 06:22 PM.
11-30-2016 at 06:22 PM.
Search term: gift student prime
Top search item: https://www.amazon.com/forum/coll...RU9HHUKTT9

So either "no" or just buy them the regular one.
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11-30-2016 at 07:52 PM.
11-30-2016 at 07:52 PM.
OP you can buy prime membership from the link below and gift to your nieces
https://www.amazon.com/gp/prime/p...ef=PrimeDP
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12-01-2016 at 05:11 AM.
12-01-2016 at 05:11 AM.
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Be the cool uncle and hook them up with fake IDs?
or be a really cool uncle & give them job applications
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12-01-2016 at 05:20 AM.
12-01-2016 at 05:20 AM.
People just love to troll.

OP, Amazon has changed their Prime policy.
You can only invite second account if that person is living with you.
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12-01-2016 at 06:45 AM.
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People just love to troll.

OP, Amazon has changed their Prime policy.
You can only invite second account if that person is living with you.
People just love to Crying2

If you read the OP, it wasn't asking about inviting them, it was about giving non-adults their own Prime accounts. It even explicitly says "I don't want them on my account".
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12-01-2016 at 09:40 AM.
12-01-2016 at 09:40 AM.
Quote from The Llama :
Search term: gift student prime
Top search item: https://www.amazon.com/forum/coll...RU9HHUKTT9

So either "no" or just buy them the regular one.
Ya that's what I want to do, but from what I found you need to be 18 or older. There is some fine print that says:

Quote from Amazon :
If you are under 18, you may use the Amazon Services only with involvement of a parent or guardian.
So I'm wondering if that means they have just answer a question about having permission or does that mean a parent has to enter a credit card to verify an adult is involved or something. I guess they could just lie about their birthday if it asks. I just want to make sure they can do this before I go through with it and find out their dad has to do something weird and he ends up with one of the prime memberships of theirs and the other one is useless.
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12-01-2016 at 10:16 AM.
12-01-2016 at 10:16 AM.
Probably the best way to get a good answer would be to contact Amazon customer service, I think.
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12-02-2016 at 11:29 PM.
12-02-2016 at 11:29 PM.
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Probably the best way to get a good answer would be to contact Amazon customer service, I think.
Ya you would think. I tried that and got some really weird response that looked like a bot parsed my question and tried to respond to it. Basically it said get them a student account with an edu email address and have a parent or guardian be responsible. Edu email isn't possible and they didn't explain what "be responsible" means, which is part of what I asked about from their help docs. Looks like the easiest thing is just to lie about their birthday if needed and pretend they're adults. I just asked here to see if someone had done this before, but I guess I'm the first one in the world in this situation.
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12-03-2016 at 12:50 AM.
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Quote from Uter :
Ya you would think. I tried that and got some really weird response that looked like a bot parsed my question and tried to respond to it. Basically it said get them a student account with an edu email address and have a parent or guardian be responsible. Edu email isn't possible and they didn't explain what "be responsible" means, which is part of what I asked about from their help docs. Looks like the easiest thing is just to lie about their birthday if needed and pretend they're adults. I just asked here to see if someone had done this before, but I guess I'm the first one in the world in this situation.
edu email address will give them discount on Prime.
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12-03-2016 at 01:54 AM.
12-03-2016 at 01:54 AM.
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Give the prime to your brother have your niece be put under his account. I am assuming all Amazon purchase will still have to go through your brother and he would want to control what Prime stuff they can access.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/cu...=201806360
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12-03-2016 at 03:00 AM.
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Scratchhead

Give the prime to your brother have your niece be put under his account. I am assuming all Amazon purchase will still have to go through your brother and he would want to control what Prime stuff they can access.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/cu...=201806360
If you read the OP, it wasn't asking about inviting them, it was about giving non-adults their own Prime accounts. It even explicitly says "I don't want them on my account".
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12-03-2016 at 08:30 AM.
12-03-2016 at 08:30 AM.
Quote from xxxHolic :
If you read the OP, it wasn't asking about inviting them, it was about giving non-adults their own Prime accounts. It even explicitly says "I don't want them on my account".
Facepalm I did read it. He only mention his account not if his brother creating an account.

Generally it's not a good idea to circumvent parent's authority, especially it's relative. No matter what to create an Amazon account and use it's service you will still need a parent/guardian involved (legally speaking) As far I know Amazon prime will require a credit card on file.

If he really wants to setup his niece as the primary account then there is nothing stopping them from doing so. Just get a cheap pre-paid credit card and have his niece create an amazon account.



Netflix may be a better service if the idea is to give them access to TV/Movie.
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12-03-2016 at 11:52 AM.
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Quote from xxxHolic :
If you read the OP, it wasn't asking about inviting them, it was about giving non-adults their own Prime accounts. It even explicitly says "I don't want them on my account".
I can't tell if this is poorly executed sarcasm or you really are a special kind of douche.
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