Students: Free Amazon Prime!!

[isucyfan]

First of all, I want to say I love Amazon Prime. I already have an account, and get free 2-day shipping, which rocks. You can also get $3.99 one-day shipping.

Now, I see that students with a current .edu email address can get this for a year...free! It's normally $79/year. Graduate students qualify, too.

Here's the link:

Amazon Student

Supposedly, if you already had a Prime account, you will be refunded a pro-rated amount, too.

[rworkman83]

Does it work with Staff with a .edu address?

[isucyfan]

Does it work with Staff with a .edu address?

Only students...sorry.

[justcynn]

We got it last Christmas and actually pay for it, well worth it IMO! Anything I need that I can buy and get in two days with out leaving my house is purchased online! Great deal!

[alarson]

Does it work with Staff with a .edu address?

Technically its only supposed to be for students, but im guessing it will *work* for anyone with a .edu address. Theres always the small risk they come and ask you to prove you're a student, but the likelihood is pretty low if other things like this are any indication (microsoft's big discounts on office\windows, for example)

[isucyfan]

Technically its only supposed to be for students, but im guessing it will *work* for anyone with a .edu address. Theres always the small risk they come and ask you to prove you're a student, but the likelihood is pretty low if other things like this are any indication (microsoft's big discounts on office\windows, for example)

Could be, but apparently there's a database that they can check this against.

[CysRage]

First of all, I want to say I love Amazon Prime. I already have an account, and get free 2-day shipping, which rocks. You can also get $3.99 one-day shipping.

Now, I see that students with a current .edu email address can get this for a year...free! It's normally $79/year. Graduate students qualify, too.

Here's the link:

Amazon Student

Supposedly, if you already had a Prime account, you will be refunded a pro-rated amount, too.

Awesome! I love Amazon and now I can get free two day shipping! Thanks for letting us know!!!

[alarson]

Could be, but apparently there's a database that they can check this against.

Unless amazon has worked out a deal with every single institution with a .edu domain for their student email lists, i doubt they'd be able to automatically check. They could manually go on to the ISU directory and find it, but are they really going to manually check thousands upon thousands of addresses?

(fwiw, im already on a shared family prime acct)

[isucyfan]

Unless amazon has worked out a deal with every single institution with a .edu domain for their student email lists, i doubt they'd be able to automatically check. They could manually go on to the ISU directory and find it, but are they really going to manually check thousands upon thousands of addresses?

(fwiw, im already on a shared family prime acct)

You're probably right, but I don't want to bear any responsibility for any fraud that may happen!

[chewbocka]

You're probably right, but I don't want to bear any responsibility for any fraud that may happen!

if they catch you all they're going to do is make you pay the $79 fee

[isucyfan]

if they catch you all they're going to do is make you pay the $79 fee

According to their terms/conditions, they would make you pay any shipping you would have had to pay, too.

[Cyclones423]

Do you think it will work for a recent grad? Someone who still has an active .edu student account?

[isucyfan]

Do you think it will work for a recent grad? Someone who still has an active .edu student account?

It would work, but technically be against their terms/conditions.

[Cybyassociation]

Do you think it will work for a recent grad? Someone who still has an active .edu student account?

It works...just got two packages sent with prime. Graduated in May.

[j_crow]

Thanks for the tip...great deal!