If you cancel your Amazon Prime membership, you only get to keep the movies you have rented or purchased. Films and shows available through subscription streaming are no longer available after cancellation unless you bought them before canceling.
What Happens When You Cancel Amazon Prime?
When you cancel Amazon Prime, your benefits go away. These benefits include:
- Free same, one, and two-day delivery on thousands of items.
- Amazon Key secures in-home, garage, or car delivery.
- Watch exclusive Amazon Originals on most devices for no extra cost.
- Access to thousands of movies and TV series.
That’s why buying your favorite movies is best, so you can keep them even when you’re done with your Prime membership.
Can You Get Your Money Back By Canceling Prime?
The most common reason for canceling Amazon Prime memberships is that some people don’t use them enough.
If it’s been nearly a year since you ordered from Amazon and you only plan to do so sporadically, a canceled membership may work for you.
Otherwise, you should be set to go if you have all the movies and TV you want to watch in one place.
While getting a partial or full refund is possible based on how much you’ve used Prime so far in your subscription year, if you’ve been using it regularly, you probably won’t get much back.
According to Amazon’s Prime membership cancellation policy, you can cancel within three days of signing up for a full refund.
Any other time you cancel, the total membership fee is refunded only if you haven’t used any Prime benefits or made eligible purchases since the last charge.
So, while regular Prime users won’t get their money back from canceling midway through their subscription, they can at least keep purchased movies.
Most people who cancel their Prime membership do so during renewal to minimize cancellation fees and any confusion.
How Long Can You Watch Amazon Prime Movies For?
After purchasing a movie from Amazon Prime, you can watch it indefinitely, even if you cancel your Prime membership.
There are no limits to how many times you can watch your videos after downloading them.
How Do You Buy Prime Movies?
You should check out the product page with purchase options when you find something you want to rent or buy on Amazon Prime Video.
If you want to buy something but haven’t found it on Amazon Prime, use the search feature to look up a particular movie.
Remember that only select Prime Video titles may be rented or purchased, and some are available in high-definition bundles.
Once you buy a title, it will be added to “my stuff” for download or streaming. If you rented movies within 30 days ahead of your Prime cancellation, you might still have access to them for a limited time.
To know more about Amazon, you can also see our posts on renting movies on Amazon Prime, if Amazon Prime Video is 4K, and how many devices can use Amazon Prime.
This is good to know, as I have several hundred movies purchased from Amazon. I do have a question though, you said that I keep the movies I purchased and downloaded, how do I download them? And to where?
Thanks so much for your time Marques!
Mark McKinsey