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How to sign up for an Amazon account?

Amazon is probably one of the world’s largest online retailers probably dwarfing Walmart, and Target combined. Amazon has become just more than a convenient way to shop more of the way for those who have mobility problems or difficulties that they are able to receive basic grocery items, medication, delivered to them the same day. Others rely on Amazon to host their products, services via AWS (Amazon Web Service) in order for them to provide a service as well to their customers.

For this article, we will be just sticking with the basic Amazon account that typically most of us visiting Amazon, and that is to make purchases either for ourselves or for a gift for somebody else.

Probably almost every single person has an Amazon account, probably knows how to sign up on Amazon, but continue with our three part Amazon family is only fair to create a guide on how to sign up for Amazon.

If you are new to Amazon or you don’t have your own Amazon account because you used somebody else’s click on Hello, sign in, then under sign in you should see new customer?

You need to fill in the registration form in its entirety, starting your first and last name, mobile number or email address, password must be six characters in length and finally you need to confirm the password by typing it in again. Once you have completed the registration form in this entirely be sure to read Amazon‘s condition of use and privacy notice. Only press continue if you agree to Amazon‘s condition of use and privacy notice.

You need to solve some human verification challenge to prove you’re not a robot.

Now we are going to receive a one time password (OTP) that will be sent to the phone number or email address that you provided during the previous step. This is important to make sure that you entered your phone number or email address correctly. if you provided your phone number wait a few seconds there may be a slight delay, if you provided your email address there also may be a slight delay and you also may need to check in your spam folder to see if the email that Amazon sent you is in the spam folder.

Now Amazon is asking you to provide a mobile phone number starting the country code. For the United States the country code is +1, enter your phone number, starting with the area code, and they are also going to send you an OTP that you will need to confirm on the next page.

There appears to be no way around this, you will be required to provide them with a mobile phone number. I strongly recommend that you DO NOT use a disposable number since this could allowed unauthorized users to access your account and also possibly your family account.

Just a note: The previous step and this step that we are on now I would imagine they would be swapped, had you provided your phone number first they probably would be now asking you for a email address, I think Amazon is going to get your phone number and your email address one way or the other and there does not appear to be any way around this.

Enter the OTP and then press create your Amazon account.

WOOHOO! You now see your newly created Amazon account! If you would like to join an Amazon family because someone in your household already has Amazon prime, you can check out this article on how to join an Amazon family.

Happy shopping!