• suslord@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Back in the day you could get the one month free trial on repeat just using burner emails, they didn’t attach it to any payment info. I’m actually amazed at how long they overlooked that for, but I had free prime for like a year cause of it.

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      1 year ago

      Actually, if you’re using those for shipping–which is the only thing about Prime I’m interested in given how much I distrust and dislike Amazon–I accidentally discovered an even easier way to exploit them.

      If you add something to your cart, then go to check out, you can accept the free Prime period, select Prime shipping, then remove the free Prime trial from your shopping cart before you pay and it will just…keep the Prime shipping on the order.

      The first time I did this I was convinced I had fucked something up because I went to cancel my free trial after the item I bought had been delivered and instead of having the option to cancel I was given the option to start another free trial. The second time it happened is when I caught on that I was on to something, and I then tested it again and it just…worked. I’m sure they’ll fix it eventually, andit’s probably totally useless if you like other parts of Prime, but if you want free 1- or 2-day shipping on an order, well then this worked for me as of my last order about two weeks ago.