For more than a decade, Amazon Prime members could share their free shipping perks with people outside their household, but that option is now gone.

As of October 1st, Amazon has officially ended its Prime Invitee Program , a feature that allowed members to extend Prime benefits like free two-day shipping to friends or family who lived at a separate address.

Matt Nawrocki, a consumer from Scottsdale, Arizona, had been using a friend’s Prime membership since college, after receiving a link through the Invitee Program in 2009.

When he logged into his Amazon account earlier this month, he noticed the Prime logo was missing, and quickly found the reason on Amazon’s customer service page.

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