Re:Amazon.com Credit Builder: Build credit with no annual fee
by tedmiston on Monday June 10, 2019 @11:37PM
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> You need Prime to get the 5%. Prime costs $119/year.
There are loopholes to this that make Prime much cheaper though.
For example, Prime Student [1] is $6.49/month or $59/year.
The EBT subsidized Prime membership mentioned elsewhere in the thread is $5.99/month (no annual discount).
You can also use Amazon Household [3] on an existing Prime membership to qualify multiple people in the household as Prime members. All members get the 5% benefit, not just the card holder. I doubt this stacks on the student version but it definitely does on vanilla Prime and likely on the subsidized version as well.
There are loopholes to this that make Prime much cheaper though.
For example, Prime Student [1] is $6.49/month or $59/year.
The EBT subsidized Prime membership mentioned elsewhere in the thread is $5.99/month (no annual discount).
You can also use Amazon Household [3] on an existing Prime membership to qualify multiple people in the household as Prime members. All members get the 5% benefit, not just the card holder. I doubt this stacks on the student version but it definitely does on vanilla Prime and likely on the subsidized version as well.
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Student/b?node=668781011
[2]: https://www.amazon.com/l/16256994011
[3]: https://www.amazon.com/myh/households