Free Amazon Prime if You Have a .Edu Email Address

Amazon is one of my favorite places to shop online. Good prices and almost every product you could imagine. A few years ago, they introduced a service called Amazon Prime which allows you to receive free 2 day shipping on millions of items from Amazon. Prime normally costs $79 per year.

Except if you’re a student!

Amazon is giving those of us with a .edu email address a free Prime membership for a year. All you have to do is head over to Amazon’s Student Portal. Click on “Get Started”. Then fill out the form with your email address, state, school, and major. You’ll receive a confirmation email from Amazon and you’re good to go.

As far as I know, Amazon doesn’t launch any type of actual investigation to really make sure you’re a student. So if you get your hands on an .edu account through other means, you could theoretically take advantage of this deal. But I’m almost positive it’s bad karma.

Alumni addresses aren’t eligible so any seniors who recently graduated and haven’t had their email convert yet will want to jump on this.