Silly People Complaining Benefits Me, Or, You Can Share Prime?!?

[walkitout]

http://consumerist.com/2011/07/amazon-student-when-a-paying-customer-isnt-a-paying-customer.html

Here's the complaint:

Kyle had Prime shipping free for a year as a student (wait, there's free Prime for students? Wow!) and it was about to expire. That Prime was a bummer because he couldn't share it (what, you can _share_ Prime?!?), but then he was offered half price Prime (there's a Half Price Prime?!?). But that was a bummer, because he still couldn't share it and that was a disappointing surprise.

He concludes with:

"If they allowed me to share the benefits with just her, they could have kept me as a customer for life instead of just for the next year."

I only just found out recently about the free streaming for Prime (which I still haven't found any compelling use for, but hey, good to know). I have Prime because it saves me money on shipping -- even tho I've switched almost entirely to digital delivery of books and other media (tells you a whole lot about my shopping habits, right there (impatient, impulsive, reclusive and not terribly price sensitive). Occasionally, I wind up buying things through my account because R. wants them. This is much more convenient. But threatening to quit shopping at Amazon because of this? I'd call the man quoted extensively by the writer a jackass -- but I don't know when I would ever have noticed this otherwise, and I'm a little grateful.

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[jinasphinx.livejournal.com]

I didn't know Prime was free for students either. The whole thing reminds me of people at Microsoft complaining about the quality of the compostable flatware in the cafeterias.