Amazon Offering Students a Year of Free Shipping

[JMcEntegart]

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.

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[hunter315]

Awesome news, should save me quite a bit

 

[eklipz330]

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...

 

[affroman112]

I just signed up. I had prime in less than a minute.

 

[scook9]

Is there any obligation beyond that first year or can you simply get a year for free?

 

[ubernoobie]

aw no canadians

 

[haunted one]

[citation][nom]ubernoobie[/nom]aw no canadians[/citation]

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

 

[victomofreality]

why are none of these contests ever open to Canadians?

 

[sinsear]

It'd be sweet if they gave you Amazon Prime for the duration of your college enrollment instead of just 1 year.

 

[walt526]

[citation][nom]scook9[/nom]Is there any obligation beyond that first year or can you simply get a year for free?[/citation]

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.

 

[johnny_5]

[citation][nom]haunted one[/nom]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[/citation]
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.

 

[dragonsqrrl]

HOT

 

[halls]

[citation][nom]ubernoobie[/nom]aw no canadians[/citation]
At least with Amazon.ca, you get a chance to have your merchandise hand-delivered by Ramona Flowers.

 

[neodude007]

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.

 

[bildo123]

$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.

 

[eddieroolz]

Nice, but since I'm Canadian and my educational email ends with a .ca, I'm left out

 

[sheath]

Love it, signed up.

 

[zaznet]

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.

 

[bustapr]

... 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.

 

[Strider-Hiryu_79]

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.