Editorial policy

1. Primary sources only, for anything factual

Every price, trial length, eligibility rule and benefit on this site comes from a page Amazon publishes. Not from another publisher, not from a press summary, and never from an affiliate blog.

That last exclusion is not snobbery, it is evidence-based. Of the twelve competing pages we surveyed, several state figures that are demonstrably out of date, and one repeats a benefit list Amazon does not publish. Sourcing a price from a site that sourced it from another site is how a wrong number survives for years. The nine sources we use.

2. We quote rather than paraphrase where the wording carries weight

Eligibility and auto-renewal in particular. Paraphrasing is exactly how Amazon’s “18-24-year-olds and higher-education students” becomes “for 18 to 24-year-olds” elsewhere — which reads fine and locks out every graduate student who sees it.

The naming convention we use, and why

Amazon renamed this program to Prime for Young Adults. Almost everyone still searches for Prime Student.

We use the old name where you searched for it, and correct to the current one inside the first hundred words of every page. Using only the new name would be accurate and unfindable; using only the old one would be findable and wrong. We never imply Prime Student is a currently branded product you can sign up for.

3. Every figure carries a date

Prices and terms move — this program changed name, eligibility and price within a year. A number without a date is a claim you cannot assess, so every page quoting a figure carries a “Verified” stamp and a link to the Amazon page behind it.

All nine sources are re-checked every 90 days, and immediately when Amazon changes something. When a figure moves, every page quoting it is updated in the same change.

4. We publish what we do not know

This is where we most often differ from the pages around us. Amazon does not publish everything, and where it is silent we say so rather than filling the gap:

• How long verification review takes
• Which Prime benefits are withheld during the trial (Amazon confirms some are, without naming them)
• Whether Prime Reading is included — widely claimed elsewhere, absent from Amazon’s benefit list
• What the “eligible refund” is worth when switching from regular Prime
• Which specific assistance programs qualify for Prime Access

A confident wrong answer to any of those costs a reader an afternoon or a decision. “Amazon does not say, here is their help page” is less satisfying and more useful.

5. Nothing on this site is invented

We do not claim to have held this membership, signed up for it, tracked a trial, or canceled one, because we have not. There is no editorial board, no expert panel, no test lab, and nobody here holds a financial credential.

There are no testimonials or user reviews on this site, and there will not be invented ones. If we ever publish reader experiences they will be genuinely collected, attributed and dated — never composited, never written by us.

We also publish no invented statistics. No “students save an average of” anything. Where we do arithmetic, every input is a verified figure and the working is shown.

6. Affiliate money never changes a recommendation

Study & Save earns a flat referral fee when a reader signs up through a link here. It is the same fee whether we recommend the membership or advise against it, and nothing at all is paid for coverage.

Which is why, concretely:

• The main verdict page carries a section on who should not sign up.
• The auto-renewal disclosure — the single most conversion-damaging fact about this offer — is above the fold on the homepage and beside every mention of the trial.
• We tell shared-household account holders not to switch, because it costs them money.
• We mark discounted add-ons as discounts rather than inclusions, which makes the benefit list look shorter than the ones around it.

If the honest answer is “do not sign up”, that is what the page says. The full funding disclosure.

7. Corrections

If something here is wrong, we correct it in place, with a dated note. We do not quietly edit an error away and leave the page looking as though it was always right.

Report one to info@studyandsave.com or via the contact form. We check the claim against Amazon’s own page. If we were wrong, we fix it and note it; if we were right, we will tell you why and point at the source. Readers regularly catch changes before a scheduled re-check does, which makes this genuinely valuable to us rather than a formality.

8. Scope

This site covers amazon.com in the United States. All prices are US dollars. Amazon runs different programs in other countries with different terms, and we do not restate US figures for non-US readers.