Those who have been sharing their Amazon accounts with people outside their household for years have until Oct. 1 to get their own Prime accounts or switch to a Family plan.
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If you’ve been sharing access to an Amazon Prime account via the Prime Invitee Program, you have until Oct. 1 to switch to an Amazon Family account or lose access.
Since 2008, the Invitee program has allowed Prime members to share fast shipping benefits with people outside their household. So, you could split the annual cost of Prime with friends or family members, whether they lived with you or hours away.
Amazon now wants those farflung recipients to pay for their own Prime memberships. The only way to share an account is if you live in the same household as the primary account holder. If so, they can add you to an Amazon Family account (previously Amazon Household), which supports one other adult account and up to four child profiles.
PCMag editors received emails in the last 24 hours explaining that the benefit sharing will end on Oct.
