Free Year of Amazon Prime For Students (.edu email)
Amazon.com has a new program called Amazon Student where you can get “exclusive deals”, the best of which is a free one-year subscription to Amazon Prime. This allows you to get the convenience of free 2-day shipping on most products (including textbooks and even some used books) with no minimum order amount. Usually costs $79 a year.
You can even keep your existing Amazon.com account, just click here, enter your .edu e-mail address, and click on the confirmation e-mail to activate. If you have an .edu e-mail, try it!
This is a really nice perk, and would go great with the Citi Forward Card or the Citi Forward Card for College Students which gives you 5x points back on bookstores, of which Amazon.com counts regardless of what you are actually buying at the bookstore. This equates to 5% back in the form of gift cards at select retailers, or a 3.45% pure cashback return. Really, I’ve done it. See my Citi Forward review and rewards follow-up for more details.
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July 13th, 2010 at 5:54 am
Graduate student with baby on the way…SCORE! Thanks for the link!
July 13th, 2010 at 5:57 am
Note that there is a contingency that they could ask you for proof of enrollment in the terms, and if you fail to produce, they will charge you for back services. So I wouldn’t recommend faking it just because you have an .edu address.
July 13th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Awesome timing! My Prime membership was expiring this month and I was about to renew. Thanks for saving me 80 bucks!
July 13th, 2010 at 9:08 am
another good thing is that if you are a current Prime member, they reimburse your cost of membership (automatic and immediate) by a pro-rate amount. I got $60 back and free Prime! Amazon rules!
July 13th, 2010 at 9:55 am
That is a little annoying since most colleges and universities have stopped giving out .edu email addresses and most only keep the address good for 2 years after you graduate.
July 14th, 2010 at 5:28 am
it won’t take my .edu address for some reason and I am a current student…giving an error about alumni addresses not being accepted
July 14th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Additional tips: If someone in your family or household already successfully signed up for Amazon Student, they can add you (and 3 others) as well, even if you don’t have a .EDU address, by going to https://www.amazon.com/gp/subs/primeclub/account/homepage.html. Answer a few questions about your birthdates and email addresses just to verify you really know each other, and you’ll get a free year of Prime as well! Just tried it. It works! (It may claim that the family / household member will only get one free month, but press on, and I think you may be pleasantly surprised.)
July 15th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Just signed up, thanks!
July 17th, 2010 at 11:04 am
Definitely works. I originally thought that you needed to create another Amazon account based on the .edu but that was not the case, as Jonathan had pointed out. Got it for a whole year and will definitely make use of it, as well as other student perks. Credit cards, I’m leaving alone for now, because my Average Age of Accounts is terribly low, even though I have very good credit.
July 17th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
Thank you Jonathan for posting the initial offer and thanks to Kenneth for the invitation link. The Prime invite specifically states the membership can be shared with “household members”; is it possible to share with a family member who doesn’t have the same address as me? My sister uses Amazon for just about everything, but she lives in a different city.
October 3rd, 2011 at 4:07 pm
[...] As noted previously, 5x points on bookstores also includes anything bought at Amazon.com (a bookstore!). Would go perfectly with your free year of Amazon Prime. [...]