{"id":959385,"date":"2025-09-04T09:10:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T03:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959385"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:21:24","slug":"big-blow-to-us-shoppers-as-amazon-cracks-down-on-prime-perk-sharing-benefits-beyond-households","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/04\/big-blow-to-us-shoppers-as-amazon-cracks-down-on-prime-perk-sharing-benefits-beyond-households\/","title":{"rendered":"Big blow to US shoppers as Amazon cracks down on Prime perk sharing benefits beyond households"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From October 1, your Amazon Prime membership no longer includes the ability to invite people who live at a different address to share the free shipping benefit. Amazon&#8217;s free shipping perk will be restricted to household members only starting next month as the shopping juggernaut phases out the &#8220;Prime Invitee program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s website, the program, which permitted Amazon Prime members to share their shipping benefits with people outside their household that didn&#8217;t have a membership, will end on October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From October 1, your Amazon Prime membership no longer includes the ability to invite people who live at a different address to share the free shipping benefit. Amazon&#8217;s free shipping perk will be restricted to household members only starting next month as the shopping juggernaut phases out the &#8220;Prime Invitee program.&#8221; According to the company&#8217;s website, the program, which permitted Amazon Prime members to share their shipping benefits with people outside their household that didn&#8217;t have a membership, will end on October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=959385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}