How you can save money on your Amazon Buys

Whilst chatting with a friend of mine at the pub earlier he told me that he'd made a useful find about Amazon.  But one that they want to keep quiet !

You see, he was looking through the terms and conditions on Amazon's website and found this sentence:

"Amazon's prices for released items will change from time to time based on a variety of factors. If Amazon's price for an already-released item decreases within 30 days after we ship the item to you, we'll be glad to refund the difference in price if you contact us within that 30-day period."

Stupendous !

So if I buy something today and next week Amazon drop the price by 20% then I can claim that 20% price reduction back !  I can see why they've buried that away in their Terms and Conditions.

But the problem is who's going to have time to keep going back and checking and rechecking to see if their Amazon buys have gone down ?

This made me start hunting around the Interweb for a solution.

It appears that up until relatively recently the only way that these price drops could be detected was either by actually recalling all the purchases you have made or by looking through all your email confirmations one at a time. And after that hitting Amazon to find out the price. Yawn!

Then I found this price protection site.

All you have to do is to enter the item number, the value paid for it, the date you bought the stuff (get these from your Amazon account page) and your email address. The site will then tell you as soon as the product drops in price up to 30 days after you purchased it.  Then all you do is follow the simple instructions provided to ask Amazon for the refund.

It's so straight forward I was astonished !

So if you feel like saving some money why not try out the price protector site and saving money!