Sharing Amazon Prime benefits with Amazon Household

[NiceCupOfTea]

Can anybody shed any more light on this?

Currently my wife and I both have Amazon Prime accounts which seems a bit wasteful when we could share them through Amazon Household - however, it doesn't seem to be quite as simple as I thought. It seems there are limits (I don't think you can share downloaded films, only streaming, and you have to share payment methods, whatever that means.

Can anybody spell it out for me in words of one syllable?

As an aside, is anybody else so very weary of all this tech not playing ball together? I have a smart TV that runs iPlayer fine, but I have to use the bluray player smart facility to see other channels' catchup (including Prime video). I have a Google Home that won't control any Amazon services, nothing links properly (I have wifi plugs but can't, for example, say "OK Google, dim the lights and start the bluray (change channel on TV, start bluray, etc." - the Google Home is registered to my wife's Google account so I can't control any of my stuff. I know Google & Amazon are competitors but the consumer always loses out. And it would be sensible (I would have thought) to be able to link accounts so as they can be used in households more effectively. But what do I know

[DuckSauce]

My Mrs has prime, she then added me as a member of her family (living at the same address) and I accepted it, it was as easy as that.
I get all the prime benefits that she has

[The_Jackal]

The only thing I remember is that you have to share a payment method.
As for things all talking to each other, those are determined by licences. If Google or Amazon dont allow it or pay for it, it wont happen.

[deckster]

At the risk of being obvious, why not just share the single account?

[mr_fibuli]

With the shared payment methods, you can still use your own card on your own account, but you have the option to use the other person's card too. I think its their way of making sure you only share prime with people you trust, rather than random mates.

[WonkeyDonkey]

Me my brother and sister all use our dads Amazon prime account.

Just use his email address to log in and have our own credit cards and mailing addresses saved.

[NiceCupOfTea]

Thanks all - yes we could just share one account but we both have had Amazon accounts forever and wouldn't want to close one down.

So other than sharing a payment method it's basically got all the same benefits?

[Evolved]

NiceCupOfTea said:

Thanks all - yes we could just share one account but we both have had Amazon accounts forever and wouldn't want to close one down.

So other than sharing a payment method it's basically got all the same benefits?

Why? You’re basically paying twice for the same thing!

[Heartworm]

I’ve not had to share payment with my wife,


You can sign in with more than 1 google account to google home and it recognises individual voice. All accounts connected are able to control anything connected to google home.

[Gren]

Heartworm said:

I’ve not had to share payment with my wife,


You can sign in with more than 1 google account to google home and it recognises individual voice. All accounts connected are able to control anything connected to google home.

I'd echo this. My wife an I share my Prime advantages using 2 totally separate accounts with 2 different payment cards. Not sure how the streaming services work but certainly all the delivery stuff is seamless.