Get Amazon Prime for just £16 per year

Ashleigh Allsopp reveals how you and your friends can get Amazon Prime for £16 per annum

Amazon Prime is the name that Amazon has given to its £79 per year service, which includes free one-day delivery and the Amazon Prime Instant Video TV and film streaming service that rivals Netflix. Amazon allows you to share that membership with up to four family members, meaning you can share out the cost to make it just £16 per year. Note: you can only share the Amazon Prime delivery benefits, so Prime Instant Video and Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is not included.

The first thing you’ll need to do is sign up for Amazon Prime, by logging in to Amazon, clicking Your Account and then clicking Amazon Prime. Follow the on-screen instructions to sign up. You’ll have to pay the £79 right away as the main account holder, but you’ll get the money back from your family members.

Now that you’ve signed up, you’ll need to go to Manage Prime Membership. Scroll down to Invite a Household Member. You may have to expand the section to see the form that allows you to invite new members. You’ll be asked to type in your family member’s name, their relationship to you (you get the option of Brother, Sister, Spouse, Parent or Unmarried partner), their email address and their birthday. Then, simply press send invite. They should receive the invite in their email inbox almost immediately. In order to confirm the invitation, they’ll need to enter your birthday to confirm that they know you. Once they’ve accepted, you’ll see their name in the Accepted Invitations section.

You can revoke their invitation at any time (perhaps if they don’t pay you the £16) to stop sharing your Prime membership with them. To do so, click the circle next to their name in the Accepted Invitations list and then click the Revoke button.

If you’ve got an Amazon Prime student account, you won’t be able to share your delivery benefits with others.

Technically, you should only share your membership with other family members living in the same household, but it actually works with those who don’t live at your address. So, as long as the person you’re inviting knows your date of birth (and you know theirs in order to send them the invite in the first place) it’ll work. You would be telling porkies about your relationship with them if you’re inviting a friend, though.

In fact, if you don’t know enough people who want to split the cost of the Amazon Prime membership with you to make it just £16, there are people over at HotUKdeals willing to chip in.