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 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 ?

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 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?

I'm 16 yo and I tried getting Amazon Prime Student with my passport and it worked and now I can access all the amazon prime features. But today I got an email that I have to verify my account again because apparently, I'm not eligible for Amazon Prime Student because it requires students to be 19-24 years old. I have some stuff that I have to buy right now, and do you think that I will be able to have all the benefits (free and fast shipping, student exclusive deals) of it without verifying it again?

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. :(

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?

Every time I try to sign up for Prime student I’m sent to a screen that says some like “you are already pre-verified for prime student, continue the process on the next page”. The picture attached is this page, but every time I click become a paid member, it gives me this error message and it won’t give me any answers on how to fix this. I have a student email joined to my account and I have no idea what else to do. Thanks!

I’m trying to get prime deals, but the Amazon prime page is locking me into a loop of “you’re a prime student redirecting, that didn’t work, sign up for young adult prime, you’re a prime student redirecting”

What do I doooooooo

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!!

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?

I am graduating in June and I've never used the free 6-month trial before, so I want to take advantage of it now. If I sign up now for Student Prime using my .edu email address (which will not terminate after graduation), will I be asked to provide verification? Or would they only ask for it when I renew it after the trial ends or whenever they assume I would be graduating? I've heard that Amazon recently became stricter with verifying student status, but I wasn't sure if they actually request it from everyone.

After clicking "proceed to checkout", my screen was like on image 1, then after clicking on "continue without prime student", my screen was like on image 2 for over 10 minutes! I tried restarting phone, using different wifi, force stopping and restarting the app - nothing works.

Has anyone encountered something simillar?

Hi! I'm an 18 year old college student wondering if I should get the 18-24 version or the student version of Prime.

From what I understand, 18-24 version lasts 6 years and the student one only lasts 4 years. It seems obvious to get the 6 year version. However, the 4 year Student version has textbook rentals/ specific student discounts that seem to be exclusive to that program. Do you guys know is the 18-24 has those student services as well?

If not, do you think it'd be possible to get the student version now and then verify my age to get the 18-24 discount after I have graduated?

Thanks!

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?

So I’m a college student that signed up for student prime one day and I exited out to complete putting in my .edu address for verification but when I logged back in it only asked me when I graduate and I put in the year and it let me through prime. The thing is that I don’t remember me putting in my school email or is. Is there a way to see if my Student prime has the correct .edu address because I want it to know I’m a legit student