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WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

Amazon cracks down on Prime free shipping sharing

WIBC 9AM-Noon Podcast

WIBC

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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0:00.0

Pat Sullivan here to remind you to stop putting screens on your gutters. Better to schedule a free estimate with the local experts at gutter helmet. So you stay off the ladder. Visit gutter helmetindy.com with gutter helmet, you'll never clean your gutters again. gutter helmetindy.com. Is there some change with Amazon? You're being mildly inconvenienced by Amazon. What's going on? Yeah. They're ending their prime invitee program.

0:22.8

So going forward, only people living in the same household can share prime benefits under the Amazon family program.

0:29.0

So the old program would allow friends and family at different addresses to share the shipping perks of Amazon Prime.

0:36.8

But now they're only going to allow you to share it

0:40.4

with one other adult in the same household or up to four teens or four children.

0:47.0

Okay, you're speaking hieroglyphics there, so, because you know, I don't know how the internet

0:52.4

works.

0:52.7

Well, I know that you and Gabrielle you have Amazon Prime you do I don't know if you're aware that you do but

0:59.6

yeah she she hits a button on the television I can watch the football games on Thursday night right

1:04.4

on the Amazon Prime right and then I know there's all these boxes that show up to our house that say

1:09.8

Amazon on them yeah and she's getting free shipping

1:13.0

on those because she's in. Well, she's paying for it, right? I mean, they're not, again, they're not running soup kitchens over there. Mr. Bezos is doing quite well. I'm paying something for it, aren't I? Yeah, you're paying a monthly fee for it. Oh, thank you. Probably less than if you didn't have it.

1:26.8

Oh, okay.

1:27.3

To pay the shipping costs of all of the items that she purchases.

1:30.5

So this is, uh, for it but it's probably less than if you didn't have it. Oh, okay. To pay the shipping costs of

1:28.5

all of the items that she purchases. So this is some special service that I pay for. Right.

1:36.8

It's really, it's really not going to affect you much until Livy learns how to shop online,

1:41.8

which I know will be a long time. Okay. So because all the things we order are going to come to my house.

1:47.4

Correct.

1:47.7

Right.

1:47.9

We don't have people abroad or whatever.

1:49.8

Right.

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