AIBU to not give teen free access to my Amazon account

[Trustissues101]

It’s to watch prime videos on their phone.

Once they are logged in they could order the world, or one of their friends could access their phone and order the world.

Neither of things are going to happen so why do I feel so reluctant to let them in?

hmm I guess they could also see my shopping history which perhaps I don’t want 😊. A girls Amazon account feels quite a private place!

How do you deal with this? Tell them if they want to watch prime stuff they have to do it on the telly and not on their phone or do you throw caution to the wind ne let them crack on?

You can log them into prime video and put controls on what they can buy

Exactly what you said. Tell them they have to watch it on the telly.

Go into your account and into the 'share household' section. You put in her username and password and there are 'share' settings so you can toggle on and off what you want her to see.

Then she just logs in with her own account and the only thing that links is Prime access.

Is this in the Uk? I was just looking up the household thing and i didn’t think it allowed sharing of prime video? Tax

Personally I would say watch it on the TV or go without. It's not as though you are depriving him.

Oh...and don't trust his friends to behave either. I made that mistake with DD, peer pressure and people pleasing personalities don't mix well. Never again.

I share DH's prime and get constant reminders that I'm not using the video and other things.

I trust my teens with my Amazon account, they wouldn’t dream of ordering anything without permission.

Just get her the Prime video app and disable or passcode in app purchases. It won't connect to anything else.

@Trustissues101 yeah in the UK. Amazon havent changed the terms of usage. You purchase Prime for the household.

This could work. I assume the video app doesn’t magically link them to your account if they then go into the shopping app? The internet is a sneaky bastard. I don’t trust it’s ways (ie I’m a dinosaur and don’t understand!)

Cool, thanks, I’ll have another look at it.

Just double checked and whilst there is a store option you can make sure that purchases have to be pin enabled.
Also if you set up a kids profile the store option isn't on their profile.
All profiles are visible across the app users but you can pin lock your profile so they can't access it and thus the store at all. You can also age limit what they get to watch under parental controls.

Thank-you, that’s really helpful, I think if you give them a kids profile though they can only access the kids shows? My 16 year old isn’t impressed with that.

We downloaded the app to their phone but that did then link the separate shopping app on their phone to my account so they have deleted the shopping app and will browse Amazon through the browser when shopping. I’m assuming if they took it upon themselves to reinstall the shopping app it would request a password again but I guess it could automatically just link in to the prime video app 🤷‍♀️. I do trust them not to do that though, ish!

I thought technology was supposed to make our lives easier! 🤦🏼‍♀️

I think if you give them a kids profile though they can only access the kids shows? My 16 year old isn’t impressed with that.

See...this is where I would have ended the conversation. Want big boy films then watch on the TV, anything else then you can watch on the phone. But then I am well aware that everyone else knows about tech way more than me. I'm still flummoxed on how that kid managed to post on the Internet via the fridge from several years ago...