As an ardent admirer of Amazon, I carried
out quick online research in addition to my personal experience on how People
can really save money shopping on Amazon.
In this article, I will share with you 10 ways to save money
when shopping on Amazon, I guess there are more ( I promise to update this post
as more tips are discovered)
Amazon Warehouse Deals
This is a little known section of Amazon website which cover
deals from return items or cracked boxes during shipments to Amazon.
They evaluate the whole stock and
inventory and items they can’t sell as new goes into Amazon Warehouse
Deals section. Trust me, Amazon
Warehouse Deals is a good place to start looking
for products to buy. You can get up to 50% discount on sound items – most
a times the major problem with such item could be that their box damaged during
shipment to Amazon’s warehouse and they decide not to sell the item as new
because of the busted box, but the item worked perfectly and severally they are
in near impeccable condition.
Add Stuffs to Your Amazon Shopping Cart, but Don’t Check Out
Surprise? Not your fault! This is a secret
tip most people don’t know about, but it isn’t 100% efficient. I add it here
because I have seen it work both to others and me. With this method, you
are like forcing a promotion on your selected items. Why? You are trying to push Amazon to give you a promotion for an item you want to buy.
Always bear in mind that there is no guarantee that this method will
always work. What you do is shop Amazon like you usually would. When you are through with
shopping, push all the stuffs into your cart, leave them there. For this
to work, you have sign in to your Amazon account- don’t really buy the
items. What you do is to leave them in your shopping cart and ignore
Amazon for a few days. Amazon will send you an email about concluding your
checkout, but then gives you a promotion or discount code for the items in your
cart. You can save up to 20% when doing this technique, but again, this
is hit or miss. You actually can’t injure yourself trying it, so why not?
Just try it
Check Out Amazon Outlet
In addition to Amazon’s warehouse
deals, they also have an outlet section.
You can go there and find profound discounts on new products on a daily
basis. As at the time of this write up, Amazon has stuff up to 60% off! Amazon’s
outlet has closeouts, overstocks, discounts, and last year’s models.
If they need to dispose the inventory, they go into the outlet unit.
The fact is that those products are all still brand new items and ready
for you to buy and save! You can even pick a set and the amount of savings linked
and shop for the products that meet that standards.
Use CamelCamelCamel
Ok, what about this camelcamelcamel? Personally,
I’m not really interested in the name but this site have a system which really works
as far shopping on Amazon is concern. CamelCamelCamel have
one of best tool to use when shopping on Amazon.com. You enter
the Amazon Product URL you want or search for keywords and CamelCamelCamel
evaluates the price history of said product. Not only do they analyze the
chronological prices, but they put those prices into an easy to see chart
format. With this website, you can also set up price drop notices to ensure
you are getting the best deal at Amazon.com. CamelCamelCamel
analyzes Amazon prices on a continuous basis. If you want to get the
best price, then head over to this site and put in your email and get
notified when the price falls on Amazon.
Sign Up With Amazon Subscribe and Save
Amazon has a subscribe
and save program for everyday items. This
program has been on Amazon for some time, but many don’t even know about it.
You can shop Amazon’s Subscribe and Save section to see all of the products they have to
offer. This package sends out steady consignments of the items you need
on a constant basis. Amazon gives discounts on said items. If you
have up to 5 or even more subscriptions delivered on your monthly delivery
day, then Amazon takes off 15%! You
can easily arrange what you want, then when you want it on a monthly basis.
The discounts are display on the product pages. You don’t have to
worry about buying them each month. Amazon just sends them to you at a
discount. If you don’t like it any longer, you can terminate and the
items come with free shipping!
Run Your Own Price Comparison
One of the most secretive ways to save money when shopping on Amazon is
to run your own little price comparison. First, you log into your Amazon
account like you usually would do when shopping on the site. Find the item
you want to buy, but don’t add it to your cart yet. Next, open another browser on your device
(better if it were an entirely different browser, like open
Amazon originally in your favorite browser, then open up Amazon.com
again in a new browser). Clear your
cookies to ensure you are beginning anew. Navigate to the same Amazon
product page and check the price. The main point of this trick is there
are times when Amazon will display lower prices to non-Amazon shopper because
they want them to buy. They show somewhat higher prices to logged-in
Amazon customers because they know you will pay the price for the item.
This trick can be used on a number of retail e-commerce sites. I
have seen it work and have done it myself. Now, as with the add to cart
trick, this is not 100%, but it does work. You can even occasionally request
a friend in another city to check the price and they might have a different
one.
Use Amazon Freebies
Take advantage of
the free eBooks you can download from the Kindle store, and you don't even need
a Kindle to read these books — you can read them off your desktop computer.
Then if you're an Amazon Prime member, remember to borrow books from Amazon's lending library. The library has more than 500,000
titles you can borrow.
Amazon Trade-in program
If there's something you
need to get rid of-just anything, consider Amazon's trade-in
program. What's great
about this is it's easy to look up the specific item you want to trade and
you'll be able to see the price you'll get for it. It requires less work to
trade in the item and earn cash versus trying to list the item to resell it to
others. Keep in mind that the stuff you trade in have to be in good condition,
and if they don't meet Amazon's standards, they will be shipped back to you
without charge.
Amazon Coupons
Don't forget to check out Amazon's coupon
page for even more
discounts. RetailMeNot also has a nice list of codes you can enter when you're checking
your items out.
Use Super Saver Shipping
This option is available only if the
total worth of everything you’re buying at once is $35 or
more—but being just shy of that minimum can push
the cost with shipping charges past the price of the item elsewhere. In this
case, check out Filler Item Finder.
This sites suggest items on Amazon priced at exactly the amount you need—or
slightly higher—to bring your order to $35. You can sort your results by
category, including books, music, grocery and more.
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