So I just got an email notification stating that I was removed from my Amazon family plan. I completely forgot that YEARS ago my sister and brother-in-law added me to their account as a “teen” so I could mooch free Prime from them. Upon seeing this I started getting a panic attack because I have made MANY spicy purchases on there, things I know they don’t want to know about their little sister. I quickly googled to see if there’s any chance they’ve been privy to these purchases and there, plain as day it reads: Yes, if you are a teen on an Amazon Household account, your parents will be notified about your purchases because they need to approve them.
My brethren in Christ, my sister has been approving every single purchase I’ve made for YEARS!! The mundane ones, the questionable ones, the impulse ones, the downright horny ones, EVERYTHING! And she’s never said ONE WORD about it this whole time! My last purchase made was 2 days before being notified via this email and yes, it was a horny purchase. I’m afraid that she finally got fed up with knowing this many intimate details about my life and finally decided to end it, but maybe just maybe it’s a coincidence? I’m too afraid to ask. Honestly, I’m not sure that I want to know. FML
TL;DR: My sister knows everything I’ve purchased on Amazon for the past several years, and I have bought things that she’d rather not know about.
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Your sister’s a real one
Perhaps it’s brother in law who’s been approving your purchases and has protected you and your sister from knowing too much… either way someone deserves a thank you 😂
Sisters getting shopping tips😆
As an older sister of 2 younger ones. Don’t worry about it babes.
I’m curious about what is that “horny purchase”
Just know that you contributed to the world being a happy place. There’s been parties where your sister showed her friends: “Check what my sister just bought!”
They all laughed, and she approved the purchase. 😁
Quietly get your own prime account and never speak of these purchases. 😂
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Teen accounts can be set up to require or not require approval. Hopefully, yours was setup to not require.
Who was paying for the orders???
I had someone share their Amazon account with me 10 years ago, back when it was free and you did not have to live together. Because of this I am grandfathered in and have had free prime the whole time.
The person and I no longer speak and are not on good terms so I assume they do not even know.
If she set a auto-approve amount she may not have seen most (or even all) of them.
For some reason Microsoft used my email for the parental controls on my brothers PS4, I get weekly activity reports. I’ve never opened one.
I tried removing it a couple years ago but it ended up being too annoying at the time
Ha ha ha! We don’t have teen accounts but I have shared one with my brothers and sometimes I just try not to think too hard about the purchases they make and hope they aren’t looking at mine.
What probably happened was they got a notification that their “teen ” is now 18 and is transitioning to an adult account. They were asked to either approve this change which meant they needed to pay for an extra adult on the account (I don’t recall how much it was, sorry) or take them off the Family account. I know this because this just happened to us with my son’s account. In other words, it was not your purchase history which caused it, but rather, the desire to not add a cost to the subscription.
My sister added her MIL to her prime family account so they could get prime for no additional cost. I then gave my Kindle to my sister so she could add it to her account and get kids books for her kids. Well she the found out all the various adult literature her MiL had been reading.
Oof
You do realise your purchase history is probably a major source of amusement to her friend group and you’re probably very infamous by now.
Blessed heavens. I’m so sorry that happened, I’d be mortified. You know what, though, I’m sure they buy their own spicy things on there. Who doesn’t? I once ordered a battery-powered dildo and when I went to pick it up at an Amazon locker, it wasn’t in there. Someone got my dildo with my name and address on it 🤪
Your sister is a good person. Lol
don’t believe the “approval” thing. my 15 year old has a teen account and can purchase without us having to approve them. we CAN see what has been purchased if we go to that menu, but if we don’t we don’t get notified
You should nonchalantly thank your sister for being so cool next time you talk
If it makes you feel any better I gave my bf my PUBLIC AND CURATED Amazon wishlist which he shared to his mom and Grandma. They purchased things I completely forgot about adding to my wishlist a long time ago.
BECAUSE AMAZON SHOWED THEM MY PRIVATE SHOPPING LIST WITH ALL SORTS OF LINGERIE AND SPICY APPLIANCES! IT WAS OUR FIRST CHRISTMAS AND I WAS MORTIFIED WHEN I FOUND OUT T-T
It’s possible you got kicked off by Amazon. I imagine they don’t allow accounts to be classified “Teen” for more than 8 or 9 years.
Do your purchases go through instantly, or do you need to wait each time? If they’re going through normally, there likely aren’t any sort of approvals turned on.
Ah sorry that’s embarrassing for you but it gave a much needed good laugh. Thank you! 🤣🤣🤣
I want to know what purchase pushed her over the edge? Was it like a Donald Trump dildo?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaa
If it makes you feel any better, my sister is a “teen” on my account and I don’t have to approve any purchases. I do get emails about her orders, but I don’t read any of them unless it’s a shipping delay thing. So maybe your sister has been ignoring your purchases….
My sister would have text me with much hilarity and then I’d have started to find the weirdest things to order.
How spicy? On the scale of lacy underwear to a gimp suit? A slightly slutty clubbing outfit to a Chasity cage?
Eh just ask.
Best case a thing to chuckle about years from now with mild embarrassment
Worst case embarrassment anyway but now it comes with a peptic ulcer because you’ve stressed yourself into oblivion
Either way love yourself
Firstly, that’s if you have a ‘TEEN ACCOUNT’ not if you were teenaged when the account was created.
The purchase screen would show that the purchase is pending approval if you had a teen account.
Since you never noticed this, it’s very likely they just created you a normal account.
I cannot see what my wife purchases even though she is a member if the family plan where I am the orimary account holder.
One day you will all laugh about this!
Several years ago, when my kids were preteens and teens, I got each of them a Kindle fire. They could all download free books and games and I never thought about it being on my account.
A couple of years ago I was looking through my Kindle library and realized that all of their books and games were on my account, so I scrolled through, just out of curiosity.
I saw the books about puppies and kittens (obviously my youngest daughter), books about video games (youngest son), books about how to do makeup and how to know if boys like you (middle child), and world history, science, religion books (second son).
Then I saw books with titles like “Hot Cheerleaders”, “Dirty Jokes”, “Sexy Boobs” (remember, these were all free books so nothing too bad) & I KNEW it was my oldest son who was 13 or 14 at the time of purchase.
I called him immediately (he was 20 & living on his own) & told him about my discovery.
He nearly died laughing and said that he had been searching the categories and seen “erotic”, so he clicked on it thinking that it would be scary stuff.
He said, “Mama, it was sooooo much better than that!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I forgot for years we had an account for each of us (couple) and we only needed one. Grrrrr
If they haven’t said anything all these years, best to let sleeping dogs lie.
Sorry it’s at your expense, but this made me laugh out loud.
Send your sis some of that spice as a thanks.
Your sister seems pretty cool.
So noones gonna ask for the purchase history?
So what’s your favorite spicy item you’ve ordered from there, asking for a sister in law.
Hell. She knows. Ask her. I’m sure she has toys for entertainment as well.
I had both my kids on teen accounts and I turned off the notifications because I didn’t want to know. Hopefully they did that as well.
That’s funny. Your sister is a gem for not teasing you about your purchases. My ex and I got divorced in 2020. Our adult daughter, myself and my ex share an Amazon account. Three years post divorce I was starting to feel like I was getting ready to date again. And you know, ready to handle my own business. So I made some spicy purchases. As I was adding my CC info I get a group text from my ex to me and our adult daughter that read “Whose vibrator and dick are in the Amazon cart??” My response was simply “MINE”.
What were some of the spicy purchases?
Might as well turn your anxiety to anonymous entertainment.
There’s porn on Amazon?
I feel for you. This was the reason I kept my own account when I moved in with my sister!
Your sister should’ve told you lol
As an older sister I would do this and never say a word. It’s your life and your pleasure. One of my sisters and I talk openly about sex, the other and I don’t. But we all know we’re having it and it’s normal.
Better than your mom or dad seeing stuff!
At least she’s cool and didn’t make fun of you for it…?
Need updates later.
Give us a hint tho what did you buy exactly lol
Your sister is the ultimate bro. I wouldn’t say anything about it. You know she knows and she probably knows you know. That’s a fun part of siblings. The little inside secrets.
Whelp…time to buy something to make it up to her now…just exchange a knowing glance and leave it at that.
She is a legend lol
Oh come on! You can’t leave out the details, what did you just order??
Maybe you can buy her a consolation dildo for solidarity
You would think she would have kicked you off with the first NSFW purchase and yet she didn’t…
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I recently (accidentally?) shared my digital purchases on Amazon with my wife, so she could see all of my music and books and theoretically, listen to them or read them.
I had Kindle books on dealing with Narcissism or books critical of our shared religion (Mormons) I think I was able to delete all of them from my library before she saw them, but crap, about had a heart attack.
I have my siblings on my plan and I can’t see their purchases. You’re fine lol
They were not only notified, but required to approve them?!?!?!?!?!?! Why, why oh why didn’t she tell you sooner?!?!?! 😭🤣😭🤣😭
Does that apply to just minors? Our son (not a minor) was on ours, and we have never been notified of anything he bought.
FYI you can set your teens account to automatically approve everything instead of each individual purchase so you never have to do anything with their account.
That said, she can look at everything you’ve purchased.
Sisters have our backs!
I am freakin CACKLING over here!!
For real though, your sister is pretty cool!
Dude you need to have a conversation with sister and then give us an update!
I have teens on teen accounts. One I’m worried will make purchase I wouldn’t approve, so I approve every purchase. The other I trust, so never see what she orders. I literally wouldn’t know how to see what she ordered. I’m telling you, for sure, it depends on how they set it up. They also got to choose if they shared a payment method or forced you to enter your own. I doubt they set it up to approve your purchases.
Also if anyone has someone listed on their household account, that person might get you notifications for that purchases. I have my parents on the account and their Alexa tells them when my when items have been delivered or suggests when it should be time to reorder disposable products
She hopefully just thought as an adult you should pay and approve your own adult purchases lol.
We need examples of things you’ve purchased. We NEED them!!
Ehh… Your story is funny… Anyways, off topic… I think you have PTSD. You should see a counselor.
As an older sibling and responsible by ALL the “family” accounts through multiple services. Don’t worry. We take these secrets to the grave.
Your sisters an awesome sister. Never bring this up 👍
Yeah, your sister was being nosey and finally got bored with it, otherwise she would’ve done it a long time ago.
I assume you are an adult now. Just ask your sister, and have a good laugh about it.
Wouldn’t you see all the different payment and address options when you’re purchasing, how would you not know you’re not on your own account… it’s also not free so, wouldn’t you think “hmm, who’s paying my yearly fee?”
I was on my sister’s account and the only purchase for years was a pig tail buttplug, pig costume, and bacon lube from a gag secret Santa I did with friends.
Sounds like you’ve got a good sister.
Don’t worry about the horny purchases. You’re adults, it’s fine.
Drax “hahaha you must be so embarrassed”
Op, she probably didn’t get tired of approving your toy purchases, Amazon has cancelled the program, so it’s just a message that you need to get your own account now.
tell her your friend was using your account, what a misunderstanding this has been, then HARD pivot into a different subject and refuse to say more about it for the rest of your days
My (now adult) daughter has been on a teen account so she can use my Prime account for 7+ years I think. As a child, I monitored what she was ordering.
But now I just get a text message that says “Reply with Y to approve this order.” I reply and then completely forget about it. Her orders don’t show up in my list of purchases. I could probably go looking for them, but I don’t.
I bet this isn’t as salacious as it seems.
No need to worry. If your account was attached to your banking source she probably just set it to auto approve, like we’ve done for our 18 year old. If she hasn’t said anything, I’d assume this is the case. Take a deep breath…hold it….blow it out and relax.
You need to share this on r/romancebooks 😂
Your sister is a saint!
Maybe they didn’t notice, because it’s a mere drop in the sea of horniness that is their purchase history.
My ex’s dad didn’t know that everyone on the account could see everyone else’s purchases and we ended up finding out he was into pegging because of it lol. We waited a few months and then casually told him after he purchased something innocent as to not arouse suspicion
Hahahhahaha
Your sister is as real as it gets. You better go to war for her when she needs that assist.
Christ. Your sister should have said something YEARS ago.
Bless your sister. Buy her something nice and say a very heartfelt thank you
It’s possible she doesn’t have to approve your purchases. I don’t have to approve purchases for my teens
A toast, to your sister for being awesome.
I’ve never made a horny purchase off of Amazon, must be a girl thing
Well, time to buy her one as a thank you gift I guess.
I got an email this evening about changes to Amazon Family. I don’t really understand it to be honest but it might be related to that change. Says one adult only or something.
Please go into your bank every week and check whats been withdrawn from your account since you last checked
Always.
Pleeeeeeaaasssee grace us with a sample list of the spicy items, I need to know how badly you traumatised her.
Your sister is amazing. There’s a long game being played here.
If you can find out your sister’s side of this whole story and get us an update that would be fantastic, thanks.
If it helps you feel better, im on the receiving end of this… with my parents. I share my prime account with them and they pay me half the subscription fee since they use prime a lot more than I do nowadays. The problem is that I get every single purchase confirmation, shipping, and delivery notification. I know more spicy things about my parents than I EVER wanted to know. This originally happened years ago until my parents came to the realization on their own that I can see everything they buy. Thankfully, I don’t see those anymore, and I respectfully never brought it up.
We need to know what you’ve bought 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
OP is worried that someone who loves and cares about them might have detailed knowledge of their purchase history. And zero regard that multiple organizations, companies, INCs, their bank, untold number of advertisement organizations and anyone else willing to shell out a few dollars to purchase their user profile also knows. atleast your sister isnt going to use this information for targeted marketing algorithms.
1 Swedish made penis enlarger pump Mr. Powers?
BRO you’ll never BELIEVE what my little sister just ordered!