Prime Day doesn’t have a teacher discount, and you can’t shop it without Prime. Amazon’s own announcement says the event is exclusively for Prime members, and nothing on the pages we read offers a different price to educators. What teachers can do is join Prime, since Amazon says anyone can join in the U.S. or start a free 30-day trial, and then look for cash back on top of whatever the event discounts.
This page covers who can shop Prime Day, what Amazon says about students, parents and teachers shopping for school, and the cash back routes we checked for Amazon orders.
How To Get The Prime Day Teacher Discount
There isn’t a teacher rate to claim. Amazon’s Prime Day announcement describes Prime Day as its annual shopping event offering millions of exclusive deals to Prime members, and says the event is exclusively for Prime members. Amazon’s Prime page lists Prime Day as one of its exclusive savings events and has no teacher or educator wording on it. Amazon’s educators address, amazon.com/educators, returns a Page Not Found.
Amazon says anyone can join Prime in the U.S. for $14.99 per month or $139 per year, or start a free 30-day trial. We cover the plans, including the two discounted ones, in our Prime post.
One line on Amazon’s deals announcement is aimed at your world. It says Amazon’s Back to School and Off to College Shops make it easy for students, parents and teachers to find everything they need for the upcoming school year. That’s a shopping page open to Prime members, not a separate teacher price.
Cash Back Routes We Checked
Rakuten’s Amazon page offers $5 cash back on each of your first 3 eligible Amazon orders through its browser extension or app. Its terms say cash back isn’t available on subscriptions, digital purchases or gift card purchases. TopCashback’s Amazon page is titled Amazon Devices and says you can get money back on eligible Amazon devices, and it sends Prime memberships to a separate Amazon Subscriptions page. Fluz sells Amazon gift cards with 3% cashback listed on its Amazon page. You can start from our TopCashback page, Rakuten page or Fluz page.
Amazon also describes a cash back offer of its own. Its announcement says that during Prime Day, Prime for Young Adults members earn an exclusive 10% cash back on eligible deals across beauty, apparel, PCs, electronics and personal care. That plan is for students, so it only helps if you’re taking college courses yourself.
What We Couldn’t Confirm
We didn’t place an order during the event, so we haven’t seen whether any of the portals above track cash back on Prime Day deals, or whether event pricing changes what an order qualifies for. We also didn’t sign in to Amazon, so we can’t tell you which deals show on your account. The portals’ rates change, so check the number on each page the day you buy.
Q&A
Do teachers get a Prime Day discount?
Not a separate one that we could find. Amazon says the event is exclusively for Prime members, and its pages have no teacher or educator offer.
Do I need Prime to shop it?
Yes. Amazon says the event is exclusively for Prime members, and that anyone can join Prime in the U.S. or start a free 30-day trial.
Is there cash back on Prime Day purchases?
Rakuten, TopCashback and Fluz each have Amazon offers, described above. We didn’t confirm that any of them track on event deals.
Does Amazon have anything for teachers shopping for school?
Amazon says its Back to School and Off to College Shops are for students, parents and teachers. They’re open to Prime members like the rest of the event.
More Information:
The details above come from Amazon, Rakuten, TopCashback and Fluz as their pages loaded when we checked, and they change without notice. Nothing here claims a teacher discount that Amazon hasn’t published. For Amazon’s one teacher offer, on devices, see our Amazon teacher discount post. See more tech discounts for teachers and the posts in cash back for teachers.