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A Look at the New Changes Coming to Amazon Prime Memberships
Amazon ends Prime Invitee program to focus on delivery expansion and limits shipping benefits sharing to household members with Amazon Family, impacting over 1,000 small towns.
- Starting Wednesday, Oct. 1, Amazon ended the Prime Invitee program that let Prime members share free shipping with people outside their household, Amazon said on its updated customer service page.
- With roots back to 2009, the Invitee program, launched then, is being phased out, Amazon said, as part of its delivery network expansion efforts.
- Amazon is replacing the Invitee feature with Amazon Family, which shares two-day shipping with only one other adult and supports up to four teens if added before April 7 and four child profiles.
- An Amazon spokesperson noted fewer than 1% of U.S. Prime members are affected, and the change precedes the Prime Big Deal Days event starting Oct. 7 at 12:01 a.m. PDT.
- With Prime costing $14.99 per month or $139 annually, users losing shared access may pay separately, while Amazon Family requires members to be in the same country and enforces a 180-day rejoin limit.
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