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[arrabella]

With today's prices for gas, and time involved, and looking all over for what I wanted to buy, I'll continue with Amazon

[mom2four0418]

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@eadu4 

I apologize if you already know about sharing your Amazon Prime benefits:

To share your Amazon Prime benefits:Visit Your Amazon Prime Membership.

Locate the Share your Prime Benefits section.

1. Select Manage Your Household.
2. Enter the name and email address of the person you want to share benefits with.
3. Select Continue. You and your invitee must agree to share wallets in order to share Prime benefits. As a security measure, we'll notify you if your invitee moves your credit or debit card to their wallet.
4. Review the terms. If you agree with them, select Agree and send invite. Your invitee has 14 days to accept the invitation. You and your invitee must live in the same country or region and share a preferred marketplace to create an Amazon Household.

You can stop sharing benefits with your household member at any time. To do this, go to Manage Your Household and select Remove.

[gardenman]

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@gardenman wrote:

By and large, Amazon is great. Last Friday they had a sale on King Arthur organic bread flour where you got 12 two-pound bags for $18.97. (24 pounds in total.) But they shipped it from California via the USPS so it's coming, but it'll be a while. It made it to Kentucky on Tuesday and left there heading this way, so it should be here Friday-ish. I've never mailed anything that weighs 24 pounds, but I'm guessing it costs more than $18.97 to mail something that heavy. It's an interesting delivery option they chose.

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And the 24 pounds of bread flour arrived today, a day earlier than expected. Neat! It's got an expiration date of March 2022 and is in perfect condition now, so I'm happy. It was $18.97 when I bought it and it's now $38.92. (I pay $4 for a five-pound bag of the KA bread flour in my local supermarkets which is $0.80 per pound, but this was $0.79 per pound and delivered to my door, so it was a good deal at $18.97. (Not so much at the current price.)

[eadu4]

@mom2four0418  thank you and yes I know how to do this.  I have been a member since the very beginning.  

[eadu4]

@mom2four0418  Ok let me explain this so that people will quit thinking I'm stealing, subverting the system, etc.and giving me "tips".    I let my daughter while she was HERE AT MY HOUSE use my account to rent movies for her kids.  I had to leave on errands.  I let my son use it to watch 2 movies while in quarrentine in the Middle East while bravely serving our country.  I have ordered stuff for her during lockdown that she needed for my grandkids and this was delivered to MY DOOR.  I do not need "household" sharing.   That is not stealing.  The only one that might be a grey area and that would be my son...HOWEVER let me clarify the two movies he watched I PURCHASED so they were in my library.  Hopefully this clarifies for everyone the situation.  

[mom2four0418]

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@eadu4 wrote:

@mom2four0418  Ok let me explain this so that people will quit thinking I'm stealing, subverting the system, etc.and giving me "tips".    I let my daughter while she was HERE AT MY HOUSE use my account to rent movies for her kids.  I had to leave on errands.  I let my son use it to watch 2 movies while in quarrentine in the Middle East while bravely serving our country.  I have ordered stuff for her during lockdown that she needed for my grandkids and this was delivered to MY DOOR.  I do not need "household" sharing.   That is not stealing.  The only one that might be a grey area and that would be my son...HOWEVER let me clarify the two movies he watched I PURCHASED so they were in my library.  Hopefully this clarifies for everyone the situation.  

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You are under no obligation to explain anything, and there is no judgement from me. 

[Sage04]

@eadu4  and @mom2four0418  I started this by talking about having family members on my account. Well, I'm here looking out my window waiting for the Amazon Police to get here.

We have been with Amazon Prime since 2005 and we love it.

[mom2four0418]

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@Sage04 wrote:

@eadu4  and @mom2four0418  I started this by talking about having family members on my account. Well, I'm here looking out my window waiting for the Amazon Police to get here.

We have been with Amazon Prime since 2005 and we love it.

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We are also long time Amazon customers. I hear you about the A Police! 

[eadu4]

@mom2four0418  LOLOL...it's all good.  I haven't been giving it out to anyone like I said other than my son when he was deployed so he could watch 2 movies I had purchased in my library and my daughter to use when she's here so she can pick movies and stuff for the kids and the kindle I have here for them and she can log in and manage their content since she knows better than I what she wants them able to see.  I'm sure there are far bigger offenders of various "memberships" out there.  For me it's always been about the books.  I'm a big reader and that's the reason I fell in love with them.  Both my kids like hard cover "real" books.  For me...I love my kindles.  I can set the background light, font, and get the next book in a series in minutes!   i usually have bought movies only because the kids tend to rewatch movies sooo many times that renting is just dumb.  But I do know people who share their info for streaming different services.  I guess that would be pretty shady.  

[gertrudecloset]

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@eadu4 wrote:

@gertrudecloset  I am not "gaming" the system thank you.  I doubt my son watching an occasional movie while deployed serving his country, and my grandkids as well (usually while she has them here at my house-since my granddaughter's kindle is on my account so I can manage what she watches and listens to here), and a once in a blue moon purchase badly needed in a hurry qualifies.  And the stuff I order for her comes to me.  I'm not stealing anything, Let me be perfectly clear I do the ordering, when anything was needed.  And they got access to a couple of movies-which basically means I rented it for them. If that offended anyone on these boards and they want to report, arrest me whatever have at it.  Sheesh.  And I can guarantee you that the many people shoplifting have passed more costs on to you than my couple of movie rentals. If you think they don't know that millions of people do this in far greater amounts than me you're fooling yourself.  I'd say your streaming companies would be far greater ticked off by others signing in to stream TV and movies on other people's accounts.  They aren't buying anything, paying anything and they are actually getting the service for free.   

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Don't tell me @eadu4 make your case to Amazon about your son who is an active duty.  I don't care.  I simply stated that "I" personally would not be out here bragging about it.

I could care less.  For all we know there could be millions of people doing likewise.  When you are using the benefit in a way it is not intended it is gaming the system.  Getting a benefit you're not entitled to because you didn't pay the cost.

Maybe for you can make him a gift of Prime on a holiday!  My children gift me Prime and other subscriptions.  Just a thought.