When someone pays for a membership, they own that membership! When that membership is applied to an account, the person that bought the membership now owns your account. You may argue that the jammer who created the account owns the account, but then how would parents change their parent account email? You need a membership to prove your ownership of an account.
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She bought a 12 month membership with her moms card. When it had expired, they redeemed it automatically without permission and by itself. I also had this problem. I bought the lynx animal jam gift toy. It came with the light up ring, it was a gift from my teacher, it was pretty expensive also.
So if you used a membership bought by someone else...
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They own your account.
That doesn't mean they will do anything bad with it! Lots of very nice people give membership codes away. But just as many not-so-well-meaning people give them away as well. Do you know of well known jammers who have had their accounts 'removed from their parent account' or 'stolen' from them? That's because they accepted a membership from another player.
Sadly, without AJHQ's permission and assistance, we won't be able to provide free membership code giveaways.
However! Animal Jam has recently introduced two ways to obtain a free membership, which we’ve written about here.