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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
Same day, since my Prime expires on 30 Nov. If I set it for the day after (Cyber Monday), I might be without Prime for several hours waiting for that email; possibly missing a chance at some hot CM deal.
But it's a moot point. I bought a Fire Phone and Amazon has already added that membership to the end of my current term. IOW, no matter when you activate it, it'll always be added to the end of your current term. I didn't know this at the time; otherwise, I would've had it delivered that day.
Bottom line - additional Prime memberships are always added to the end of your current term.
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Originally Posted by sadievan
I had set mine for the day after like the link said. 
I called Amazon to see if they could change it but they can't without screwing up the promotions. Oh well. |
I stand corrected. You can't add a gift membership until your current one expires. They won't let you use them to extend memberships. Fire Phone Prime memberships can be used to extend memberships, but not gift Prime memberships. Go figure.
Now to make matters worse. This gift membership would've been used today. Then when I got my Fire Phone on Monday, I would've applied that Prime to the end of the gift Prime; thereby giving me two years. But not to be. Instead, Amazon applied the phone Prime to my account two days ago and now the gift Prime can't be added until a year from now.
But I didn't know any of this until after the fact. When I was redeeming the gift Prime, it recognized that I already had an active membership and gave me a gift card for the value of the Prime membership instead. Not a problem under normal circumstances, but this was a promotional offer and they subtracted the $18 promo from the full value ($99). That meant I no longer had a discounted Prime membership available. After a lengthy phone call to get things reversed, the best they could do was to issue me a credit for the $18 and leave the $81 gift card in place.
That Fire Phone Prime really screwed things up. I don't even have the phone yet. The CS rep kept telling me that I had already redeemed the Prime offer and I kept telling him that there were two different Prime offers involved. It wasn't sinking in.
Prime has some very strict and contradictory rules.