Amazon Ending Shipping Perk For ID, WA, UT Prime Members

The largest e-commerce company in the world will soon be ending a 16-year service that benefited members who linked accounts with family and friends.

Amazon, which has operated out of its headquarters in Seattle for over three decades, is making a big change that will result in the end of a service related to the company's shipping policies beginning October 1, 2025.

More than six billion orders were processed by Amazon in 2024, according to capitaloneshopping.com. For those enrolled in Prime Invitee, there will be a noticeable change coming at the start of October.

Amazon To End Shipping Benefit For Its Prime Enrollees

Get our free mobile app

READ MORE: Urgent Scam Warning For ID, WA, And UT

Beginning October 1, Amazon will do away with its Prime Invitee service, which allowed those who enrolled before 2015 to share shipping discounts with other household members, and the company will then push heavily to direct those members toward other options, according to information shared this week by Axios.

Other companies, such as Netflix, have made similar changes in order to prevent account sharing from resulting in a negative, quarterly financial impact. Prime Invitee enrollees should be notified once again in the coming days regarding this change, according to Axios.

Consumers often share passwords with friends and family members in order to save money, and more and more companies have gotten wise to this and have taken measures to end such transgressions. In the case of Amazon Invitee, this type of account sharing was offered by the company as a perk, and now they have decided to end the service.