Amazon Household

Patsy167 · 19-10-2020 9:51am #1

Amazon Prime members can share all the perks and benefits from the premium subscription with family and friends at no extra cost.

That means your nearest and dearest can take advantage of access to Prime Video, Prime Reading and fast delivery for free. You can also share digital content and manage children's accounts through sharing benefits too.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/myh/households

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/shopping-deals/how-share-amazon-prime-benefits-21938296

Basq · 19-10-2020 10:12am

Yep, posted about this in the Prime thread. Didn’t know about it until the weekend either.. but then again, I only joined Prime for Prime Day.

The missus joined too so handy that we can just keep the one sub going.

ArthurG · 19-10-2020 10:28am

This is a great perk - added my other half to it about a year ago, very handy.

micks_address · 19-10-2020 10:45am

just a pity you can't share amazon music

Fr_Dougal · 19-10-2020 11:13am

Looks like you have to share wallets, i.e. give access to your payment cards.

ED E · 19-10-2020 11:15am

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Looks like you have to share wallets, i.e. give access to your payment cards.

That's to stop the Spotify/Google Music/Netflix rings that go on.

Peck3277 · 19-10-2020 12:31pm

How does this work with sharing echo devices?

Due to the pandemic, in my parents house there are my parents and 4 adult children. Each child has an echo device and my parents share echo devices.

Are there any downsides to creating a household with all of us on it so our echos can interact?

savemejebus · 19-10-2020 1:29pm

Doesn't work with student accouints either.

Klingon Hamlet · 19-10-2020 1:52pm

savemejebus wrote: »

Doesn't work with student accouints either.

In fairness student accounts are much cheaper.

savemejebus · 19-10-2020 2:24pm

Klingon Hamlet wrote: »

In fairness student accounts are much cheaper.

Oh yeah, not a complaint, more a heads-up, save people a call with Amazon CS

Tigeire · 19-10-2020 2:28pm

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Looks like you have to share wallets, i.e. give access to your payment cards.

yup - makes it unpractical for some

RocketRaccoon · 19-10-2020 3:17pm

Having an issue trying to attach my account to my wifes one. It's saying we need to be in the same country.

tommycahir · 19-10-2020 3:19pm

RocketRaccoon wrote: »

Having an issue trying to attach my account to my wifes one. It's saying we need to be in the same country.

I had that also and turned out her account was set to US for kindle book store and needed to be set the same as my .co.uk account

long_b · 19-10-2020 3:54pm

tommycahir wrote: »

I had that also and turned out her account was set to US for kindle book store and needed to be set the same as my .co.uk account

Could you do that yourself or did you need customer service to do it?

ice.cube · 19-10-2020 7:53pm

savemejebus wrote: »

Oh yeah, not a complaint, more a heads-up, save people a call with Amazon CS

I have a student account and I was able to add a family member.

savemejebus · 19-10-2020 8:18pm

ice.cube wrote: »
I have a student account and I was able to add a family member.

Really? I was told by CS that that wasn't possible. I'll have to try again, would be very handy altogether.

fuse · 19-10-2020 10:18pm

I assume delivery has to be the same address as the main account owner?

Conar · 19-10-2020 10:24pm

fuse wrote: »

I assume delivery has to be the same address as the main account owner?

No, and I often order for others too so as a secondary household member on my mother's account (both different addresses) I've often ordered for friends and delivered to their addresses.

salamiii · 19-10-2020 10:33pm

it was always like that but now you have to share your credit card.before you could have 4 members at any address

scamalert · 19-10-2020 10:37pm

Peck3277 wrote: »

How does this work with sharing echo devices?

Due to the pandemic, in my parents house there are my parents and 4 adult children. Each child has an echo device and my parents share echo devices.

Are there any downsides to creating a household with all of us on it so our echos can interact?

i found an issue few months back where 2 houses with echos+hue lights got completely messed up, in other words my group lights would be replaced from another family members house, deleting etc picking correct ones would initially restore to non existing lights, so smth to keep in mind if you use other smart home devices.

SourSessions · 19-10-2020 10:39pm

You can't share prime video either.

Sarn · 19-10-2020 10:56pm

SourSessions wrote: »

You can't share prime video either.

It specifically says you can.

Only prime members can share the following benefits with one other adult in the Household:

Unlimited One-Day Delivery plus Same-Day Delivery in eligible areas
Prime Video Streaming
Prime Reading
Early access to Amazon Lightning Deals
20% off nappies and 15% off Baby Registry

SourSessions · 19-10-2020 11:06pm

Sarn wrote: »

It specifically says you can.

Only prime members can share the following benefits with one other adult in the Household:

Unlimited One-Day Delivery plus Same-Day Delivery in eligible areas
Prime Video Streaming
Prime Reading
Early access to Amazon Lightning Deals
20% off nappies and 15% off Baby Registry

But not in the Republic of Ireland. I spent hours on chat with them trying to figure out why it wouldn't work until they escalated it and told me the feature isn't available in ROI.

Conar · 19-10-2020 11:13pm

Sarn wrote: »

It specifically says you can.

Only prime members can share the following benefits with one other adult in the Household:

Unlimited One-Day Delivery plus Same-Day Delivery in eligible areas
Prime Video Streaming
Prime Reading
Early access to Amazon Lightning Deals
20% off nappies and 15% off Baby Registry

I can't find it right now but that isn't included for Rep Of Ireland customers. You can have multiple profiles on the one Prime Video account, but not multiple prime video accounts.

Conar · 19-10-2020 11:14pm

SourSessions wrote: »

But not in the Republic of Ireland. I spent hours on chat with them trying to figure out why it wouldn't work until they escalated it and told me the feature isn't available in ROI.

I can't find it at the moment but it's listed in the t's & C's.
I had a similar issue with chat. They don't even know about it.

Edit**** found it

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GK6S4CC8545EBQSV&ved=2ahUKEwj6ktm518HsAhXCWhUIHe5zAJUQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw3NTLYD50eZVQgEk_BfhJu7&cshid=1603145795258

"Sharing
Amazon Household members can share their Amazon Prime delivery benefits, Prime Video (UK residents & streaming only), Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and Prime Early Access. "

Soarer · 20-10-2020 7:13am

Have mine shared with a colleague in work. Obviously there’s trust involved as we can use each other’s card, etc., but we don’t.
He has his delivery addresses setup, I have mine.
We have notifications turned off so we don’t see/hear what the other is getting.
I’m “based” in the UK, so we have Prime Video shared.
I also bought a Firestick for the father-in-law, registered it to my account, turned off all notifications, and put a pin on purchases. So he has access to Prime video too!

On top of free delivery, special offers, etc., it’s not bad for £40 a year!

Sarn · 20-10-2020 10:35am

SourSessions wrote: »

But not in the Republic of Ireland. I spent hours on chat with them trying to figure out why it wouldn't work until they escalated it and told me the feature isn't available in ROI.

Thanks, I wasn’t aware that it was restricted over here. We’ve only set it up so haven’t tried it out yet. Amazon should really make it clearer up front.

Leslie91 · 20-10-2020 10:38am

So I shared mine with the missus but she cannot see my payment card, only hers. Shouldn't my payment card now be an option for her to use in her account?

Nollog · 20-10-2020 6:01pm

SourSessions wrote: »

You can't share prime video either.

Prime video yeah, but Amazon prime you can share most of the benefits, including prime video with family. I looked into that before the OH's father shared his prime with us.

ice.cube · 20-10-2020 7:49pm

Sarn wrote: »

Thanks, I wasn’t aware that it was restricted over here. We’ve only set it up so haven’t tried it out yet. Amazon should really make it clearer up front.

I used a parcel motel address in the UK, then asked Amazon Customer Service to switch me over to a UK account. No hassle at all, didn’t really question it. I think I set the parcel motel as my billing address afair!

SB71 · 23-10-2020 11:09am

Does anyone know iof it's possible to download films,etc on amazon prime app on the nvidia shaield as i cant see any function for this yet i can on my tablet and phone?

Morby · 27-06-2021 1:55am

Is Amazon Prime Video sharing still not available (legitimately) to customers in Ireland?

Tzardine · 27-06-2021 5:56am

Morby wrote: »

Is Amazon Prime Video sharing still not available (legitimately) to customers in Ireland?

It works for me. Have my wife added. She uses it on her phone, and also when we set it up a new profile on the sky box app automatically added too.

Morby · 27-06-2021 10:42am

Tzardine wrote: »

It works for me. Have my wife added. She uses it on her phone, and also when we set it up a new profile on the sky box app automatically added too.

Mind me asking if she's using your account (email and password) to log into Prime to watch, or if she can access it using her own email and password?

I'm in a Prime household and it keeps asking me to sign up to Prime or start a free trial when I try to use Prime Video.

Or do you both have a UK address listed in your accounts as going by some previous responses it is only available to UK customers and you must have a UK billing address added to your account to share.

Just trying to figure out why it works for some and not others.

Tzardine · 27-06-2021 10:45am

Morby wrote: »

Mind me asking if she's using your account (email and password) to log into Prime to watch, or if she can access it using her own email and password?

I'm in a Prime household and it keeps asking me to sign up to Prime or start a free trial when I try to use Prime Video.

Or do you both have a UK address listed in your accounts as going by some previous responses it is only available to UK customers and you must have a UK billing address added to your account to share.

Just trying to figure out why it works for some and not others.

She uses her own account. Both accounts set up with the same Irish address.

My prime account was a UK Student account for a while, but it has been a normal Irish account for the last year. We only added her to the account about 5 weeks ago.

We did have some trouble setting it up at first as her Kindle account was based in US, but once we sorted that it has worked grand.

machiavellianme · 27-06-2021 10:50am

Morby wrote: »

Is Amazon Prime Video sharing still not available (legitimately) to customers in Ireland?

It's available but the library is less than what's included in the UK one.
After Brexit, I had a revert to an Irish account to match the missus in order to get it to work as you both need to be in the same jurisdiction.

Morby · 27-06-2021 11:42am

Great, so it's definitely working for ROI accounts?

I'll have to get onto them later so.

Thanks!

brianorourke · 07-09-2021 10:05pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117523842#Comment_117523842

Any luck? Support chat is telling me that we cant share prime video as we're both in Ireland

SourSessions · 07-09-2021 11:54pm

They've told me the same. Can only work if other person is signed into my account (which is a pain in the hoop because if you're signed into one Amazon app on a device, you can't be signed into another account on the others - Kindle, shopping etc)

bromley52 · 08-09-2021 8:33am

I have been sharing my Prime video and prime benefits for the last couple of years with another household. We both have separate Amazon accounts. The Prime video is set to the UK for both.

SourSessions · 08-09-2021 10:55am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117861816#Comment_117861816

I think that's the kicker - if it's set to ROI it won't work

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