KungFuPanda Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 What’s my best option for allowing my college girl continued access to Prime movies and occasional amazon purchases. I just gave her my password because that was the easiest, but now I need to change it to Christmas shop. I learned here that there is some sort of connected account? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 (edited) She could have her own Amazon Student account, which is basically the same thing as Prime but $49 per year. ETA Prime Student has a 6 month free trial currently. Edited December 9, 2017 by RosemaryAndThyme 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 One thing you can do is erase particular items from your Amazon history. That keeps them from popping up in unwanted places. Another thing is to try to have the last thing in your cart be a non-gift, because that is often how the email is titled (with the top cart item) doesn't work if it comes from multiple sellers, though. I think you can disable email notifications, but my kids get messages on their Kindles attached to my account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyroo Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Amazon Household. She can have her own account and you can share (most of) your prime benefits. Wendy 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Peregrine Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 You can archive orders after you make them. They won't show up on the order page. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paige Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Amazon Household. She can have her own account and you can share (most of) your prime benefits. Wendy This is what we have. DH has his own household account so we don't see each other's gift purchases. There's some limitations on the sub accounts but I don't recall what since I'm the primary account holder. Whatever it is isn't a significant bother to DH. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gardenmom5 Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 my understanding is only one of the family accounts can have access to movies/etc. at least that has been our experience. dd was on my household account, but she couldn't access the prime movies - and since I wasn't home, she hacked my computer to find out my passwords for amazon movies. but there are household member accounts. they each have their own ccs, and lists, etc. private from other family members. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wendyroo Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 my understanding is only one of the family accounts can have access to movies/etc. at least that has been our experience. dd was on my household account, but she couldn't access the prime movies - and since I wasn't home, she hacked my computer to find out my passwords for amazon movies. but there are household member accounts. they each have their own ccs, and lists, etc. private from other family members. I have a sub account and I do have access to movies, but I can't add movies to the Watch list. This means I can easily watch something on my computer, but have a harder time saving something to watch later or using Roku to watch something on the TV. Wendy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Last year, because of life circumstances, we had a whole family of parents and adult children ordering Christmas presents using dad's account to get the free shipping. When the boxes started arriving, we realized we had a problem. We chose to put all the boxes under the tree unopenned and take turns openning them Christmas morning. A would open and hold up item. B would say that's mine and hand it to C. It was fun. Not that it solves your problem. : ) Nan 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cjzimmer1 Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Last year, because of life circumstances, we had a whole family of parents and adult children ordering Christmas presents using dad's account to get the free shipping. When the boxes started arriving, we realized we had a problem. We chose to put all the boxes under the tree unopenned and take turns openning them Christmas morning. A would open and hold up item. B would say that's mine and hand it to C. It was fun. Not that it solves your problem. : ) Nan Obviously not something one would plan but that sure does sound like fun to me! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanaqui Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Call her, say "Listen, don't go on Amazon until I call you again, I'm shopping for Christmas presents!" Sometimes we just don't need a technological solution :) 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KungFuPanda Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 Ugh. It’s all effort. I think I like just clearing the history. She’s not nosy and I get all the emails. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matrips Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Thanks for the household info! Just added dh :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSMWB Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 I would probably tell her not to be a snoop in the purchased and just get them. Or do a ‘secret’ sub account for myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mimm Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 I cleared my history and archived the orders I needed to hide from my teens. :) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6wildhorses Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 I recently added my teen daughter using Amazon Household. I had to approve her order, and her order shows up when I look at my orders! This is frustrating because she was ordering Christmas presents. I don't see my husband's orders, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandwalker Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 my understanding is only one of the family accounts can have access to movies/etc. at least that has been our experience. dd was on my household account, but she couldn't access the prime movies - and since I wasn't home, she hacked my computer to find out my passwords for amazon movies. but there are household member accounts. they each have their own ccs, and lists, etc. private from other family members. [emoji23] I love that Dd hacked your password it just cracked me up. We have amazon Household too and we're all happy with it. I sure prefer online Christmas shopping to the stores! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nan in Mass Posted December 10, 2017 Share Posted December 10, 2017 Obviously not something one would plan but that sure does sound like fun to me! It was a bright spot in a difficult Christmas. : ) Nan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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