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Amazon is quietly cutting this Prime membership perk - here's what you're losing (and when)

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-08 11:27:17

Roman Tiraspolsky/iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon is ending the Prime Invitee program. The program let people share Prime shipping outside their home. Customers are being rolled into the Amazon Family program. It's the end of an era for Prime Invitee users. Through the Prime Invitee program, established in 2008, subscribers could share their shipping benefits with other people who live in their "househ

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Investors Cheer As Amazon Cracks Down on Prime Accounts

gizmodo.com Riley Gutiérrez Mcdermid 2025-10-12 01:42:13

Amazon.com Inc. is cracking down on shared Prime accounts. The company says it is ending a little-known but long-standing feature of its Prime membership that allowed subscribers to extend free shipping benefits to friends and family outside their homes. The move, announced this week, will shutter the company’s “Invitee Program” on Oct. 1, redirecting members to a stricter household-sharing model known as Amazon Family. What exactly are they ending? For years, the Invitee Program quietly let

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Amazon is quietly axing a big Prime shipping perk. Here's what's going away - and when

zdnet.com Artie Beaty 2025-10-13 17:06:24

Roman Tiraspolsky/iStock Editorial / Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Amazon is ending the Prime Invitee program. The program let people share Prime shipping outside their home. Customers are being rolled into the Amazon Family program. It's the end of an era for Prime Invitee users. Through the Prime Invitee program, established in 2008, subscribers could share their shipping benefits with other people who live in their "househ

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Amazon cracks down on Prime free shipping sharing

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-10-14 13:41:32

Amazon is eliminating a program that allows members of its Prime subscription program to share free shipping benefits with people outside their household. The company began notifying users in recent days that it plans to end the Prime Invitee Program on Oct. 1, according to a notice viewed by CNBC. "We are writing to inform you that the Prime Invitee Program, which allowed sharing Prime's fast, free delivery with others, will end on October 1, 2025," the notice states. "Your invited guests wil

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Amazon Prime subscribers will soon lose ability to share benefits outside household

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-10-14 17:05:44

Amazon has just announced a change coming soon for Prime subscribers: the ability to share Prime’s shipping benefits with members outside your household is ending soon. Prime Invitee program will be discontinued October 1 Amazon Prime’s fast, free shipping has long been the tentpole benefit of the subscription program. But until now, even non-Prime subscribers could benefit from free Prime shipping as part of an ‘Invitee’ program. In Prime’s earlier days, subscribers could invite several fri

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