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If you’re sharing the Amazon Prime membership of a member of the family or pal outdoors your family, put together to pay up.
Beginning October 1, the corporate is eliminating “Prime Invitee,” a program that permit Prime members outdoors of their family share their free delivery profit. Moving ahead, prospects could have to join their very own Prime membership to take benefit of Amazon’s free delivery.
Amazon didn’t instantly reply to NCS’s request for remark, however confirmed the modifications on its website.
The firm inspired individuals to change to an identical program known as “Amazon Family,” which lets individuals share their Prime advantages – however just for individuals of their similar family.
It’s unclear how many individuals have been taking benefit of the Prime Invitee program, which ended taking signal ups in 2015. A Reuters report last week revealed Amazon didn’t meet its sign-up objectives throughout its expanded Prime Day occasion in July, registering 116,000 fewer individuals over the 21-day run-up to July 15 occasion in comparison with the identical interval a 12 months in the past.
Publicly, Amazon was bullish on the occasion. In a July press release, the corporate mentioned this 12 months’s Prime Day occasion had “record sales and more items sold during the four days.”
Amazon doesn’t disclose what number of US subscribers it has for its Prime program. However, a third-party analysis from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners estimates that it has 197 million prospects as of March 2025.
Prime prices $14.99 per thirty days or $139 per 12 months. It final elevated costs in 2022.