Amazon Offering Students a Year of Free Shipping
Amazon is offering students a year of Amazon Prime for free. This entitles them to free two-day shipping and discounted priority-shipping rates, among other things.
Amazon this week launched Amazon Students, which offers anyone with a .edu email address a year of Amazon Prime for free. Launched in 2005, Amazon Prime offers free two-day shipping on all items and discounted priority-shipping rates for a flat fee of $79 per year.
To qualify for the Amazon Students program you'll need the aforementioned .edu email address, and you must be in enrolled in at least one university class. Despite Amazon Prime being launched in several other countries since its U.S. debut five years back, Amazon Students is only open to customers in the United States.
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Awesome news, should save me quite a bit
FREAKIN SWEET, when someone signs up, u think u cud tell me how long it takes for it to process? cause i think i shud try it when i need to buy something...
I just signed up. I had prime in less than a minute.
Is there any obligation beyond that first year or can you simply get a year for free?
aw no canadians
aw no canadians
damn! I go to U of Toronto but my email doesn't have .edu in it.
why are none of these contests ever open to Canadians?
It'd be sweet if they gave you Amazon Prime for the duration of your college enrollment instead of just 1 year.
Is there any obligation beyond that first year or can you simply get a year for free?
Nope. Just took less than 5 minutes to sign up. You just have to provide a .edu address and then click on a link that is emailed to you. No entering of CC numbers or anything.
damn! I go to U of Toronto but my email doesn't have .edu in it. But apparently it doesn't matter. Hopefully Amazon.ca will follow suit
Yeah I left U of T two years ago, but while I was reading the article I was wondering if my email was still active, then I got to the 'currently enrolled' and 'US only' parts, though I guess neither should have suprised me.
HOT
aw no canadians
At least with Amazon.ca, you get a chance to have your merchandise hand-delivered by Ramona Flowers.
Just an FYI on this. It you happen to copy your .edu email address in to the box when signing up and there is a space after it you HAVE to take the space out. The programming on the form is weak sauce.
$80 a year? I usually just order my books a couple weeks in advance with media mail, which is cheap. Cheaper than $80 for sure in a years time.
Nice, but since I'm Canadian and my educational email ends with a .ca, I'm left out
Love it, signed up.
www.australia.edu offers free email service. Pretty sure it's yourname@australia.edu but I haven't used it.
You'll still need a US Shipping address and it's possible that Amazon already filters the free .edu service at sign up.
... Im left speechless! I just fkn bought a guitar on another site with a huge 50lb amp, and the fkn shipping left my butthole sore! The guitar and amp cost 50 bucks less on the other site, and the shipping...omg!
Well, at least I know where to buy next time.
Amazon.ca gives free shipping on orders over 39.99. Seeing as how I pre-order my games from them this has always worked in my favor.
Why does amazon.com only give free shipping to students? That's very sad.
Why does amazon.com only give free shipping to students? That's very sad.
It is their Prime service they are offering for free for just 1 year to students. Prime has been around for a while and provides faster shipping. A good deal if you shop Amazon a whole lot.
Amazon.ca gives free shipping on orders over 39.99. Seeing as how I pre-order my games from them this has always worked in my favor.Why does amazon.com only give free shipping to students? That's very sad.
they actually give free shipping to anyone who orders over 25 dollars. just like amazon.ca
Amazon prime + Students with credit cards = lots of profit ..