I previously had Amazon Prime a couple of years ago and cancelled it because it prompted me to buy things I didn’t need. Yesterday, I was in the process of buying some end tables and I got a prompt at checkout that says “try Student Prime for $6.99/month” or something. I just clicked on it out of curiosity, and then I’m congratulated on joining Prime. I was shocked! I figured it’d ask me a few other questions before just signing me up. Also, I’m not a student and have no idea why it thinks I qualify for a student discount.

I’m slightly annoyed that it was this simple. It’d be so easy for someone to accidentally click that button, and BOOM...on the hook for a membership.

Anyone else do this?

I've tried the website, ive dicked with the options but I dont know how to get around this

I saw this post on Facebook, and thought I’d share it here too:

In case y’all didn’t know (because I didn’t) — you can get Amazon Prime for 50% off with your WGU email! Even if you’re no longer an active student!

I just changed my membership from the regular Prime membership to the “Young Adult” (previously Student) membership and am going to save for the next 4 years because WGU never retires your email!!

Love it!!

I recently made an account with my school email and tried to join student prime but the “join amazon student prime” link didn’t work and Amazon never sent me school verification link. For those experiencing the same problems as me or any other registration problems that prevents you from enrolling into Prime Student, I would advise to:

Email [email protected] with a photo/screenshot of proof of enrollment

Proof of enrollment can be your transcript, school schedule, tuition bill, acceptance to uni with current term, and student ID.

Afterwards, it should take a few days for them to verify and enroll you into Prime Student.

I just activated my 90 days free trial prime student (2 hours ago) in order to watch some series tonight on prime video but amazon seems to not recognize me as a prime member : I used my .edu mail in which I received the verification mail. I then clicked the link to verify my account and few minutes later I seem to not be able to use my prime benefits, so I check my subscriptions to verify if my account is considered prime. But it seems like it's not, so I tried to reclaim my free trial but I now have the message : "You have already been verified! Please click here to start discovering your Prime Student benefits." So I wonder if I have to wait (it's been more than 2 hours) or if there's an issue with my account. Did anyone had this issue ?

So i was ordering something on amazon and an advert popped up for join amazon student so i clicked on it to see what information it would need to verify me but instead a message appeared saying i am now an amazon student member. so why doesn't everyone do this? will they ask for verification?

As title says, I am a Masters student. One year back I tried to get Prime Student and in the midst of the verification process, I backed out.

Few months back, I tried to get Prime membership for the same account.
It automatically selected and charged me for Prime for young adults $7.49 instead of the full membership.

I have been using since 3 months now.
Today I have even reached out to Amazon customer support chat and told them about this that I am not a young adult but I have been in this membership plan.
They say that Amazon will automatically detect and will send notifications for your prime membership.

"As i have mentioned above you will automatically charged for full prime price when system detects automatically

as young adults or student is same for 18-24 years age
yes system will automatically detect and will send notifications for your prime membership"

What should I do? or will they charge retroactively later on?

Despite the website stating, "All 18-24 year-olds and students welcome", if you previously had a prime student membership and are no longer a student you cannot join even if you are still between the ages 18-24. From what I could tell, this is not stated on the website; I had to chat with support to figure out why I was unable to sign up. Every time I tried to sign up, it would take me to a page to verify education information and there was no way to access a page to instead verify my age.

Just wanted to try and share this in case others have tried and are experiencing the same issue. :(

I had Prime Student all thru my undergrad, but it expired earlier this month. I'm starting graduate school in a few days so I figured "Hey I can still use Prime Student".

I used my grad school email to sign up and it prompted me to verify. My existing regular Amazon prime account tied to my everyday email is still up at $14.99/month however. I also recieved an email on my everyday email telling me to verify for Prime Student.

Should I upload a class schedule or my grad school ID?

It's asking me for a bunch of information about my university, but if I buy like a bong, does the university have any way seeing that?

I'm trying to sign up for Amazon Prime Student, but after verifying my .edu email I'm stuck with this notice that says "Verification in progress, please wait". How long does this "verification" take? How can I get this fixed?

So I still have an active .edu email address that recieves updates from my university that I graduated from in December. I thought maybe I could use it to get student prime; as context I didn’t know student prime was a thing until after graduating.

I thought it wouldn’t work but I put my graduation date as 2026 and all they did was have me verify my email address. I know it only lasts for 4 years before they ask for documentation of still being a student, but is there a chance they could realize I’ve graduated and backcharge me? I know I sound paranoid but I’m just wondering if there’s any way they could realistically find out and ban me or something.

Edit: How does it feel being so self righteous that some of you would rather insult my morality and defend a multi billion dollar corporation that treats their employees like shit and has been using their facilities to smuggle in illegal goods since it’s conception instead of just answering my question?

The chat agent sent me a link I can provide a schedule. I did that and they said they still need my school email but everytime I go to submit it it says verification in progress. No one on the phone understands what I'm trying to say and keeps telling me to resubmit. Anyone have any tips?

I’ve been a regular prime member for a few years, and recently went back to grad school so I’m trying to switch to Student Prime. I called customer service and they told me to cancel my membership and then sign up. I was able to cancel just fine but every time I click on a link to student prime I am redirected to regular Prime plans. I will click on “college students?” and it literally just reloads the page I was already on. If I click a link for the government assistance version of prime it takes me to a new page, but Student Prime just reloads the regular Prime page I was already on.

Has anyone else run into this problem?

Ok so I signed up for prime student, I'm eligible for the free 6 months, sign up and is fine and I'm accepted, then a week later it's cancelled. With the lie saying, "I requested it"

Talk to support for the first time student team didn't respond, talk to them a second time no reply but they reactive the trial.

Another week goes by and it's cancelled again so I talk to them again (no.3), a manger contacts me, Said it was an error, they had forgotten to submit my documents. So they have personal verified and submitted my documents, and said I'm eligible till November. Another week and it cancelled again, they try to tell me since I've had a free trial I need to get the discounted paid student prime membership, but I get an email reactivating my free membership. I replied back to the email to ask about this and no reply, another week goes by and today I got my 4th cancelled prime student trial.

At this point I'm just not getting prime again. " Was subbed monthly for over year, even thought prime music doesn't even work in Ireland, and if they can't even be trusted to respect there own deals and blantly lie to me, I'll not be supporting them again"