How to gift Amazon Prime

The birthday of your best friend is approaching and, hearing him often say that he is shopping on Amazon , you have well thought of giving him the subscription to Prime , in order to allow him to take advantage of fast and free shipping on a wide range of products, contents streaming Prime Video and other subscription benefits.

The idea is really good, no doubt about it … just a pity that it is not feasible in the strict sense of the term. No, don’t despair yet! You must know that there are “tricks” that can be used to pay homage to friends, relatives and colleagues with Amazon Prime. If you are interested in this, I can provide you with all the details of the case, with this tutorial on the subject.

Then? Would you like to deepen the question? Yup? Great! Position yourself comfortably and immediately start focusing on the instructions on how to give Amazon Prime as a gift below. Don’t worry, you won’t have to do anything particularly complicated or that is out of your reach, you have my word. Now, however, let’s ban the chatter and proceed. Enjoy the reading!

Index

• Preliminary information
• How to gift Amazon Prime membership
• Other solutions to gift Amazon Prime
• How to gift Amazon Prime Video
• How to gift subs on Twitch with Amazon Prime

Preliminary information

Before getting to the heart of the tutorial, going to explain how to give Amazon Prime as a gift , there is some preliminary information about it that you need to know.

First of all, it seems only right to specify what exactly Amazon Prime is and what its costs are. It is a subscription that allows you to use Amazon to the fullest, giving you access to free delivery in one working day on many products, to the flash preview offers, to the entertainment services Prime Video , Prime Music , Prime Reading and Prime Gaming ( ex Twitch Prime) and various other benefits that I have described in detail in my dedicated to how Amazon Prime works. Its cost is 36 euros / year (alternatively, you can pay 3.99 euros / month) after a 30-day free trial. There are also strong discounts for college students, who can get everything for half the price and triple the free trial period.

That said, as I already told you at the opening of the post, at the moment there is no option to give Amazon Prime as a gift . However, this does not mean that it is not possible to offer other people the possibility to activate the subscription to the service for free.

You should know, in fact, that some external companies usually offer promotional codes for the activation of Amazon Prime at no cost for a limited period of time, as a welcome gift for new customers or as a digital reward for those of old course.

The codes in question, consisting of 16 alphanumeric characters , can be given as a gift to another person and therefore it is possible to donate to the latter the subscription to Prime. For all the details, read on.

How to gift Amazon Prime membership

Having made the necessary clarifications above, I would say that we can finally take action and go and find out, therefore, how to give subscription to Amazon Prime . To perform the aforementioned operation, you must first obtain a promotional code for Amazon Prime.

As I told you, in general the promotional codes for Amazon Prime are provided by some companies, such as telephone companies , usually in conjunction with the subscription of a new offer or with the adhesion to any loyalty programs reserved for existing customers.

So, if you intend to change telephone operators and are also looking for a system to give Amazon Prime as a gift, I recommend that you constantly check the offers of the main operators, to check for plans that include the service in question. To make the task easier for you, I suggest you read my guides dedicated to offers for fixed telephony and offers for mobile telephony .

Anyway, at the time of writing this tutorial, the only phone company that offers the ability to get a promotional code for Amazon Prime is WINDTRE . More precisely, by activating the offer called Super Fibra, which allows you to obtain an unlimited Internet connection in optical fiber, mixed copper or ADSL (depending on the coverage, with a maximum speed of 1 Gigabit with FTTH coverage, 200 Mega with FTTC coverage and 20 Mega with ADSL coverage) and calls unlimited to all national fixed and mobile numbers, together with various ancillary services, such as the proprietary Wi-Fi modem and the possibility of receiving unlimited Giga of data traffic on the WINDTRE family SIM cards already active, you also get a promotional code to take advantage of 12 months of Amazon Prime.

Once you have obtained the Amazon promotional code, please direct it to the person to whom you intend to gift the subscription to Amazon Prime. For example, you can do this by forwarding the email with the code that you may have received from the company, by sending the code to them via WhatsApp , Telegram , Messenger or other messaging services, by SMS or perhaps by voice. In doing so, please let the person of your interest know what the code you are sending them is for and that it is a gift from you.

Once the promotional code has been received, the recipient of the same can then redeem it independently with their Amazon account . If the person you sent the promotional code to does not yet have an Amazon account, please invite them in advance to read my tutorial dedicated to how to register on Amazon , in order to receive all the necessary instructions to be able to create one.

After completing the above steps, to activate Amazon Prime you must do this: if the company that provided the promotional code has sent an email or SMS containing a link , you must visit the latter and, when requested , log in to your Amazon account to complete the procedure.

If, on the other hand, the company has provided only the characters that make up the coupon, you need to connect to the appropriate web page to redeem the Amazon Prime promotional codes , enter the code received in the text field under the heading Enter your promotional code to redeem your subscription , click on the Redeem button and, when requested, log in to your account to finalize the operation.

Other solutions to gift Amazon Prime

Then there is an indirect but still effective way to give Amazon Prime, and it is through an Amazon gift voucher . No, this does not mean that I lied to you a few lines ago, the fact that it is impossible to gift Prime directly is true, but you can give the recipient something that allows them to subscribe.

In fact, Amazon gift cards, although until recently they were not accepted as a payment method for the Prime subscription, nowadays they are. In fact, if you go to the payment section of this plan, you’ll find the Gift Cards, Vouchers, and Promotional Codes option popping up.

Of course, it is not the same as giving the subscription directly as a gift, but the only real viable solution without leaving the platform and resorting to third-party solutions. If you want to know how to pay for Amazon Prime , you can take a look at my dedicated guide.

In any case, keep in mind that, with the possibility of gifting Amazon Prime separately as I have just indicated, the service can be tried for free for the first 30 days of use (which for students becomes 90 days, through the Amazon Prime Student program ) by those who have never used it or in any case in certain promotional periods offered by Amazon itself.

At the end of the trial period of the service there is no obligation to continue the subscription, but remember to deactivate the automatic renewal in due time, as explained in my guide on how to deactivate Amazon Prime , to avoid incurring any unexpected payments.

How to gift Amazon Prime Video

If you’re looking for a way to gift Prime Video , it pains me to tell you that there aren’t many more options than we’ve seen so far. The simplest method is in fact that of the Amazon gift voucher , from which the person can go and subscribe to the desired plan.

Alternatively, again in case you want to change or renew your fiber connection at home, you can choose to switch to a telephone offer with Amazon Prime included such as those seen previously. This way you will also have access to Prime Video at no additional cost.

Finally, since Prime Video allows shared streaming for people who are part of the same household on multiple devices, you could always decide to share your Amazon account with the person in question, as long as they live with you. This implies having to provide login credentials, but if that’s not a problem then it becomes a valid solution. Even here it is not exactly a gift but, on balance, the result is very similar. If you want to know how to share an Amazon Prime account , I leave you my dedicated tutorial.

How to gift subs on Twitch with Amazon Prime

If you have a Twitch account and want to gift your subscription to a streamer to thank them for the content they offer, you can do it very easily. First you need to have an active Prime membership and then connect your Twitch account with Amazon’s.

To link the two accounts you must, first of all, log in with your Twitch profile and click on your icon located at the top right. Once this is done, from the menu that opens, select the Settings item and then click on the Prime Gaming tab to continue the process.

From here, click on the Try Prime Gaming button to be redirected to the Amazon site dedicated to gaming and, once here, log in with your Amazon credentials. Once this is done, click on the Try Prime button on the main screen and then on the Confirm button .

At this point the accounts are associated so you can go back to Twitch, reload the page to allow them to update and verify that the operation was successful. To gift your subscription you must now search for your favorite streamer and click on the Subscribe button: […]% discount .

From the screen that opens, look for the section that talks about giving away your Prime subscription and next to it you will find the Subscribe button at no additional cost : press it and you’re done. If you want to know more about how to associate Amazon Prime with Twitch and how to subscribe for free on Twitch , I leave you to my dedicated guides.