What are the restrictions on the Amazon Prime free trail?

Pawnless Endgame · 12 Dec 2017 at 17:59

I wanted to gift a friend a bottle of JD for Christmas (via Amazon gift and delivery to his house), but then was told that only Prime members could buy it! Not sure how that is allowed, treating the less well off customers as 2nd rate. It's like having to pay Wetherspoon or any other non-posh pub £80 upfront just so that I can access their pubs, then would have to pay £80 again next year etc. Amazon are desperately trying to get their entire userbase onto Prime. I did in the end managed to find a bottle of something else that wasn't pay-walled :rolleyes:

Scam · 12 Dec 2017 at 18:02

mrochester said:
No hassle, it’s very easy to create a new account. Saves me £80pa.

Seems a bit risky to have all those accounts to look after if you ask me.

Pawnless Endgame said:
I wanted to gift a friend a bottle of JD for Christmas (via Amazon gift and delivery to his house), but then was told that only Prime members could buy it! Not sure how that is allowed, treating the less well off customers as 2nd rate. It's like having to pay Wetherspoon or any other non-posh pub £80 upfront just so that I can access their pubs, then would have to pay £80 again next year etc.

Er, you mean like a private member's club of which there are thousands across the country?

mrochester · 12 Dec 2017 at 18:07

Scam said:
Seems a bit risky to have all those accounts to look after if you ask me.

Er, you mean like a private member's club of which there are thousands across the country?

Not really you just create one account after another. So there’s only account on the go at a time.

Hades · 12 Dec 2017 at 18:28

Freakbro said:
Nope, it's a jungle out there

Cry me a river.

ci_newman · 12 Dec 2017 at 19:39

I create a new amazon account each month for the free trial too. I even use the same email account with "+amazonxx" tacked on the end of my usual gmail address.

It takes literally seconds to do.

m@rty · 12 Dec 2017 at 21:25

TRAIL

Haggisman · 13 Dec 2017 at 00:14

Spook187 said:
Blimey all the hassle just to save 80 notes a year, a bit skinflinty if you ask me, let's change your name to scrooge.

Pretty easy to do if you have a decent length gmail address, e.g.

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Etc...

All you need to remember is which ones you've already used

Amp34 · 13 Dec 2017 at 00:56

Jamesyboyjim said:
The only restriction is one trial per account. you can register a new account with another email address and use the same debit card on the account to register for the Prime trial, Amazon seem to turn a blind eye. Probably just happy to have you spending money with them if you sign up just to get a few free deliveries

Is that an actual restriction. They seem to give free trials out all the time if you don’t have prime, even if your account has already had one free one.

platinum87 · 13 Dec 2017 at 06:00

Pawnless Endgame said:
I wanted to gift a friend a bottle of JD for Christmas (via Amazon gift and delivery to his house), but then was told that only Prime members could buy it! Not sure how that is allowed, treating the less well off customers as 2nd rate. It's like having to pay Wetherspoon or any other non-posh pub £80 upfront just so that I can access their pubs, then would have to pay £80 again next year etc. Amazon are desperately trying to get their entire userbase onto Prime. I did in the end managed to find a bottle of something else that wasn't pay-walled

Alcohol is the reason i am on prime also.

My gifts are also bottles of various spirits/wine but i think JD is not really a good gift, if you buy one unknown whisky for the same price, its much better because they have not heard of it and also they dont know the price.

Anyway i got a couple of cases of JD from tesco @ £12.75 per bottle, and thats using a staff discount cheekily a month ago. I dont even work for tesco lol.

Haggisman · 13 Dec 2017 at 06:48

platinum87 said:
JD is not really a good gift, if you buy one unknown whisky for the same price, its much better because they have not heard of it and also they dont know the price.

Surely that depends on whether they like whisky? If they like JD and they don't like whisky, then the JD is probably the better gift

platinum87 · 13 Dec 2017 at 08:42

Haggisman said:
Surely that depends on whether they like whisky? If they like JD and they don't like whisky, then the JD is probably the better gift

Whisky is super varied, and JD is in that category also, its just american. But my point is that JD is available in every single shop, thus it makes a bad gift due to that alone. I give always some lesser known bottles of all spirits/wines, the placebo effect is there also btw, because they never tasted it before they always think its better than it is.

TacticalFish · 13 Dec 2017 at 11:21

Can you take maintainboeks on at?

Scam · 13 Dec 2017 at 11:23

Haggisman said:
Surely that depends on whether they like whisky? If they like JD and they don't like whisky, then the JD is probably the better gift

This. If your friend likes whisky (as in, drinks it neat) then absolutely do not buy him a bottle of JD.

EDIT: I can highly recommend a bottle of the Dalwhinnie 15 that you can get on Amazon.

Haggisman · 13 Dec 2017 at 13:15

platinum87 said:
Whisky is super varied, and JD is in that category also, its just american. But my point is that JD is available in every single shop, thus it makes a bad gift due to that alone. I give always some lesser known bottles of all spirits/wines, the placebo effect is there also btw, because they never tasted it before they always think its better than it is.

At risk of turning this into a whisky snob thread, if you drink it with coke then it is not whisky, JD is a bourbon, nothing wrong with that, but they are completely different drinks, in the same way as port is not wine, despite being classed as a fortified wine

platinum87 · 13 Dec 2017 at 15:34

Haggisman said:
At risk of turning this into a whisky snob thread, if you drink it with coke then it is not whisky, JD is a bourbon, nothing wrong with that, but they are completely different drinks, in the same way as port is not wine, despite being classed as a fortified wine

JD is Tennessee whiskey, if you want to be pedantic about it. And whisky is still whisky no matter what you mix into it, that's snobbish to say. You can talk all you want about this, but my main point is in regards to gifts.

subbytna · 14 Dec 2017 at 16:29

Students can sign up for 6 months free prime with their .ac.uk email address

Cancel in June and get free delivery for all yoru presents and other stuff in Jan sales

Blackjack Davy · 14 Dec 2017 at 16:39

Amp34 said:
Is that an actual restriction. They seem to give free trials out all the time if you don’t have prime, even if your account has already had one free one.

I've had at least 3 free trials on the same account not sure if they've changed that lately.

Mainly because I try to order something and its supposed to be free over £20 but for some reason they want to slap on some hefty delivery charge anyway and I think "ah screw it".